Raw materials have moved into the political spotlight because of their importance for the twin green and digital transition and geopolitical developments.

The ATI data dashboard provides countries and industries statistical evidence on the level of technology production and uptake, with the aim to support policy making and technological transformation.

The data and charts show the economic indicators used for the established sectors in the EU Blue Economy report. The six sectors include: Coastal Tourism, Marine living resources, Marine non-living resources, Port activities, Shipbuilding and repair and Maritime transport. Various filters allow for the customisation of data in terms of sub-sector, activity, Member State, indicator and time period.

Searches for published decisions can be carried out under policy area (antitrust, cartels, merger, state aid), case number, title and date.

The Scoreboard is the European Commission’s benchmarking instrument for State aid.

The survey assesses the performance of a range of goods and service markets across the European Union, the UK, Iceland and Norway.

The observatory regularly analyses and carries out comparative assessments on the construction sector in 27 EU countries and the UK, to provide policymakers and stakeholders with up-to-date information on market conditions and policy developments.

This section presents information on economic globalisation related to businesses.

International trade in goods statistics published by Eurostat measure the value and quantity of goods traded between the EU Member States (intra-EU trade) and goods traded by the EU Member States with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade).

Statistics on international trade in services record services transactions between residents and non-residents. These statistics distinguish between transactions among EU Member States (intra-EU transactions) and transactions of EU Member States with non-member countries (extra-EU transactions).

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, with the scientific support by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, assesses the performance of small and medium enterprises in Europe.

Member States Customs websites.

Prodcom provides statistics on the production of manufactured goods carried out by enterprises on the national territory of the reporting countries.

Short-term business statistics are the earliest statistics released to show emerging trends in the European economy.

Statistical business registers are repositories of legal and statistical units to be used for producing business and macroeconomic statistics

Structural business statistics describe the structure and performance of businesses in the EU. They cover the 'business economy' which includes: industry; construction; distributive trades; services.

The European Commission monitors developments in SMEs’ access to finance through the joint European Commission/European Central Bank Survey on the access to finance of enterprises.

Tourism, in a statistical context, refers to the activity of visitors taking a trip to a destination outside their usual environment, for less than a year. It can be for any main purpose, including business or leisure.