Activities of María IRIGOYEN PÉREZ related to 2012/2004(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Social Business Initiative – Creating a favourable climate for social enterprises, key stakeholders in the social economy and innovation
Amendments (7)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges that social businesses have the potential to provide innovative responses to the current social and economic problems; encourages, therefore, the development of a supportive regulatory framework and the provision of financial support to enable them tohat is better suited to social entrepreneurship and to social enterprises, which will assist their growth and survivestainability;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the contribution of social businesses to prioritising decision-making based on people and the work and services they provide to institutions, or based on social goals, and to understanding and meeting the needs of consumers in general and of vulnerable consumers in particular;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to promote, encourage and develop social economy institutions by removing obstacles to starting and developing social enterprises, promoting training and retraining in the field of social economy institutions and increasing aid to entrepreneurs in social enterprises;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that social businesses help to build an ‘active society’ which is supportive of sustainable and inclusive economic growth and promotes internal solidarity, equal opportunities for men and women, social cohesion, the inclusion of people at risk of social exclusion, the generation of stable, quality jobs, reconciliation of personal, family and working life and sustainability;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is of the opinion that the reform of the EU's public procurement rules provides a good opportunity to improve respect for social standards and increase the participation of social businesses in public contracts; insists that the main goals of the reform – simplification and modernisation – should not be jeopardised by overly burdensome social obligations or conditwelcomes the new regime for social services proposed by Commission within the Public Procurement Directives revision and stresses the importance of this tool for local contracting authorities in order to provide quality services fostering social cohesions;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission's proposal to add the new category of disadvantaged persons to reserved contracts; stresses that such a significant extension of the notunderlines the potential of the new provision ofn reserved contracts should not come at the cost of competitivenessin order to pursue a strategic use of Public Procurements al local level fostering innovative social and territorial development;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Commission to develop a long- term strategy to safeguard social goals and to remove obstacles to starting and developing the economic activities of social economy institutions, particularly with regard to the implementation of administrative procedures, and to enhance the participation of social businesses in public procurement, without hampering the competitive awarding of contracts or creating incentives to circumvent the rules;