
Since 2012, Horst Heitz has been Executive Director of SME Europe of the EPP (SMEE). In this capacity, he became a member of the SME Connect Steering Committee (2017 – SMEC) and chaired it in the same year. In 2019, he was also appointed Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative for SME of the Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE), and in 2022, Head of the TAE Brussels Office.