3 Amendments of Catherine TRAUTMANN related to 2008/2237(INI)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to create better framework conditions aimed at promoting innovation by SMEs, in particular by introducing ways to improve the protection of intellectual property and to fight against counterfeiting and fraud more effectively, not least by educating SMEs on those rights;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to promote innovative public procurement, since it procedures that for the first time allow technology transfer enterprises access to such procedures, and for an innovation clause enabling the selection of SMEs proposing innovative products, since this leads to added value for contracting authorities, citizens, and participating undertakings;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that the main source of funding for SMEs, whose vulnerability stems from their under-provision in capital, comes from their own activity; calls on Member States to provide better conditions to enable SMEs to reduce costs and reinvest the profit in the company, and which consequently should not require the payment of charges prior to SMEs’ commencing activities, in order to ensure that they are able to build up their own funds and resources;