(ANSA) - BELGRADE, OCT 14 - "We ask Brussels for less bureaucracy and to be heard before the Regulations are draughted, because their excessive complexity is suffocating our businesses," says a joint appeal launched today from Gorizia by the network of New Alpe Adria Chambers of Commerce. "We represent nearly 850,000 businesses in four countries and nine million people," emphasised Antonio Paoletti, president of the Venezia Giulia Chamber of Commerce, "and our Italian, Slovenian, Austrian, and Croatian colleagues all agreed on the need to ask the EU not to complicate the lives of SMEs, which are the backbone of these countries' economies, with unnecessary bureaucracy." The network includes, among others, the Cccia of Udine-Pordenone and Bolzano, Unioncamere Veneto, and some entities from Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. (ANSA).