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The findings of these monitoring activities confirm the high level of e-business activities in all five countries under study and in Europe. Main results for the international benchmarking countries are summarised in the following table.

» On average, EU enterprises are head-to-head with their counterparts in other advanced economies in terms of electronic business activity. However, gaps in ebusiness adoption within the EU (i.e. between Member States) are clearly more pronounced than on aggregate level in international benchmarks, i.e. between firms from the EU-25 and the USA, Australia, Japan or other countries.

» Firms from those EU Member States which are most advanced in their information society development (the Nordic countries in particular) are not only 'e-leaders' within the EU, but constitute international benchmarks of ICT infrastructure adoption and ebusiness activity. Many of the other EU countries are well aligned with the international state-of-play in e-business. This holds true for some of the major economies in the EU, for example the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.

» ICT and e-business adoption is comparatively low among firms from EU Member States which constitute the least advanced group in information society development ('third tier'). This group includes some of the new EU Member States, Greece and Portugal.

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