The National Council of Small and Medium Sized Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR) is an employers’ confederation, non governmental, non political and not-for-profit organization, representative at national level for SMEs (participating in all national and local tripartite bodies). Its mission is to promote and protect the interests of SMEs in Romania (either economic, or of production, commercial, financial, juridical or of any other type). CNIPMMR was founded in 1992. Currently, CNIPMMR has 98 collective member associations all around Romania, representing approx. 11.000 companies. Its strength consists in the national-wide network of member associations, as a tool for bidirectional communication and as structure to provide information and basic services aiming at more favorable business environment, at better compliance with new rules and regulations and at performance improvement, mainly focused on competitiveness of Romanian SMEs.

CNIPMMR is member of UEAPME (European Union of Craft and Small and Medium Enterprises – www.ueapme.com) and of WASME (World Association of SMES – www.wasmeinfo.org).