UEAPME is the employer's organisation representing the interests, at European level, of crafts, trades and SMEs in the European Union and countries applying for accession to the European Union.It is a non-profit seeking and non-partisan.

Its 75 member organisations, as of December 2002, consist of national cross-sectorial federations, European branch federations and other associate members which support the SME family.

Of the 19 million enterprises in the European Union, UEAPME represents more than 7 million which employ over 30 million people. Across the whole of Europe, UEAPME represents over 10 million enterprises with nearly 50 million employees.