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EP plenary backs annual accounts exemption for micro firms

By Sophie Petitjean | 10 March 2010

With their adoption of a report by Klaus-Heiner Lehne (EPP, Germany), MEPs expressed their support, on 10 March, for the European Commission’s proposal to exempt micro-companies from the obligation of drawing up annual accounts. “We are talking about very small companies, the baker on the...

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