Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Responsibilities

The Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs is working to uphold and manage the Single Market for goods and services and to strengthen its governance. Its work helps ensure an open, seamless and resilient internal market, which is one of the cornerstones of European integration.

The DG supports the competitiveness, growth and resilience of the EU economy. It focuses on strengthening the leadership of European industries across different industrial ecosystems, by leveraging the power of the Single Market and addressing strategic dependencies in our supply chains. In addition, it implements policies that sustain entrepreneurship and growth, in particular to the benefit of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), including facilitating access to funding and to global markets for EU companies.

The DG also leads efforts on digitisation and decarbonisation of European industry and SMEs. It contributes to the objective of turning the EU into a greener, more digital and more resilient economy.

Programmes

DG GROW manages the implementation of

• Single Market Programme, which aims to strengthen the governance of the Single Market.
• parts of the Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon Europe.
• InvestEU programme, the EU's flagship investment programme to kick-start the European economy and mobilise private investment across Europe.

DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs website

External bodies

While DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs maintains policy control of its support programmes, financial management is largely taken care of by

• European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) which implements the European Innovation Council and manages other EU programmes focusing on SME support, innovation and the single market including parts of the Single Market Programme.
• European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) manages European programmes and initiatives to help rebuild a post-COVID-19 Europe at its heart, which will be greener, more digital, more resilient and better fit for the current and forthcoming challenges, including parts of Horizon Europe, Single Market Programme and Digital Europe Programme.

DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs also supervises certain regulatory agencies, specifically

• the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which implements the EU’s legislation on chemical products
• the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) which is the trademark and designs registry of the European Union

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commission staff holding management functions publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives.