The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe. We study performance across ten dimensions: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) ‘Second chance’, (3), ‘Think small first’ and ‘Responsive administration’, (4) State aid and public procurement, (5) Access to finance, (6) Single market, (7) Skills and