A small and medium-sized enterprise must endeavor to voluntarily improve its management and transaction terms, in order to achieve the growth and development of its business by responding promptly to changes in the economic and social environment.
中小企業者は、経済的社会的環境の変化に即応してその事業の成長発展を図るため、自主的にその経営及び取引条件の向上を図るよう努めなければならない。
Organizations concerning small and medium-sized enterprises, such as organizations for the joint operation of businesses of small and medium-sized enterprises, are to endeavor to proactively work, together with small and medium-sized enterprises, toward the realization of the basic principles when carrying out their business activities.
中小企業者の事業の共同化のための組織その他の中小企業に関する団体は、その事業活動を行うに当たつては、中小企業者とともに、基本理念の実現に主体的に取り組むよう努めるものとする。
A person other than a small and medium-sized enterprise that has a relationship with small and medium-sized enterprises in connection with its business must cooperate in the implementation of policies concerning small and medium-sized enterprises carried out by the national government and local governments.
中小企業者以外の者であつて、その事業に関し中小企業と関係があるものは、国及び地方公共団体が行う中小企業に関する施策の実施について協力するようにしなければならない。
basic principlesmachine translation
「基本理念」
The basic principles in Article 3: that, since small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業) form the base of Japan's economy and have an important part in keeping it vigorous, their varied and vigorous growth is to be achieved by encouraging the independent enterprises' own efforts, promoting their business innovation and start-ups, strengthening their business foundations and easing their adaptation to economic and social change, and that small-scale enterprises (小規模企業), which support their regions' economies and residents' lives and contribute to Japan's future development, are to be able to make the most of their vitality in a business environment that supports their own efforts.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)