Activities of Amelia ANDERSDOTTER related to 2012/2114(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on financing EU SMEs’ trade and investment: facilitated access to credit in support of internationalisation PDF (182 KB) DOC (125 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the effective protection of SMEs against unfair trading practices by EU partner states is just as important as helping SMEs wishing to internationalise; considers internationalisation and protection as two sides of the same coin of the globalisation process;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recognises the need to establish, at EU level, an SME export/import facility which would disburse additional support to SMEs via ECAs; considers that, drawing on national best practice, this additional support could involve soft and fixed- interest-rate loans, short-term work capital and refinancing, equity funding, export guarantees (e.g. an export credit guarantee to eliminate commercial and political risks of non-payment), and business insurance solutions, including an export credit insurance to prevent exchange rate risk and business insurance solutions;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the need to provide SMEs with financial and technical assistance focused on market research, project and export finance advisory, legal counselling (e.g. on escape clauses or penalties for late payment or default), customs and tax obligations, the fight against counterfeiting, and company presentations at trade fairs and business networking events (e.g. to find distributors in a third country);
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Regards better, less costly and faster access of SMEs to anti-dumping procedures as key to better protecting them from unfair trade practices by trade partners; calls on the Commission to pay due consideration to this concern when reforming the EU's Trade Defence Instruments;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Is concerned with the effects of wrongful border injunctions and seizures based on alleged intellectual property rights infringement on the internationalisation of European small and medium sized enterprises; takes notice of how only at the EU borders in 2011, goods were established to have been detained by mistake in more than 2700 cases; requests a thorough evaluation of how such wrongful injunctions and seizures made by third party customs authorities could affect SME foreign investment opportunities to be undertaken by the Commission;