Are you in or are you out? Smaller entrepreneurial companies pay the price of being in the EU says healthcare MD

Trevor Rowley is the managing director of York-based Optix Software , which produces management tools for the optical industry.

Are you in or are you out? Undecided

Why?

On a personal level my heart would like to see us return to being a truly independent sovereign state whilst my head worries about a jump into the unknown.

What would a Brexit mean for your business?

As a businessman, there are undoubted benefits to the free movement of labour within the EU. We employ two very talented Spanish citizens and losing either would be a great loss.

Overall, I can see how the majority of multi-national businesses derive real benefit from our membership of the EU, but I do feel that smaller entrepreneurial companies pay a price for this.

From a professional perspective, the issue that stands out for me is that leaving the EU would close the anomaly that allows online contact lens sellers to bypass all UK regulations by routing product through the Netherlands – even though it never physically leaves the UK.

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