Activities of Arne GERICKE related to 2014/2210(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Family businesses in Europe (A8-0223/2015 - Angelika Niebler) DE
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on family businesses in Europe
Amendments (20)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas there is a growing presence of women in family businesses, and women are a major resource in terms of their ability to influence strategies, decisions and managementhereas, by virtue of their sometimes different abilities, their social skills and the way they influence strategies, decisions and management, women and men living and working side by side on an equal footing represents a new, fair and sustainable form of employment culture;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas family businesses, family-run independent businesses and new businesses of this kind represent an important career opportunity for women;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas especially family businesses create favourable environment for reconciliation of family and work life;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women encounter substantial difficulties in their involvement in family businesses and are in some cases still subject to ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ gender segregation;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women often play an invisible role, or act as figureheads,lose out as a result of the time they spend bringing up children and do not have their job or salary status appropriately recognised, which has serious repercussions in terms of social security contributions, pensions and welfare;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. acknowledging the crucial example set by properly functioning family business governance and its importance for the sustainability of the social market economy and a new, sustainable working culture in Europe;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas some 60 % of all businesses in the EU are family run or family owned;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas family farms are family businesses that offer a template for success because they put the principle of the environmentally and socially sustainable circular-flow economy into practice;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. acknowledging the crucial example set by properly functioning family business governance and its importance for the sustainability of the European economy and the social market economy in Europe;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas many family businesses are small-scale, independent firms which not only make a significant contribution to the economy, but also embody long-term stability wherever they are located, including in rural areas, display a special degree of commitment to their local community, shoulder exceptional responsibility as property owners and stand in the European tradition of the ‘honourable merchant’;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas inheritance taxes are a serious problem for especially smaller and medium-sized family owned enterprises, causing some of them even to downsize or liquidate;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination (invisibility) and ‘figurehead’ treatment)discrimination as regards work in the household and time spent bringing up children, providing both genders with equal opportunities, and social rights and access to health;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the ‘mother-entrepreneur’ figure to be promoted, in order to guarantee the right to maternity, to acknowledge time spent bringing up children and to grant financial assistance to women who intend to devote themselves to both their families and businesses;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to encourage across-the-board acceptance of a clear definition of ‘family business’ at EU and national level, as recommended in the final report of the European Expert Group Overview of Family-Business- Relevant Issues 2009.
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to draw up a non-legislative European family strategy which takes full account of the role played by women and mothers in family businesses, the social and economic significance of ‘mompreneurs’ and the specific contribution they make to implementing the principles underpinning fair leadership, entrepreneurial social responsibility and a new, sustainable employment culture.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Asks the member states to find applicable and acceptable solutions regarding inheritance taxes on family- owned businesses, to ensure that the payment of these taxes does not lead the company into liquidity problems or adversely affect the number of employees and the sustainable development of the company in responsibility of the next generation.
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to draw up a non-legislative European family strategy which takes full account of the role played by parents in family businesses, including the social and economic significance of 'mompreneurs' and the specific contribution they make to implementing the principles underpinning fair leadership, entrepreneurial social responsibility and a new, sustainable working culture.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the European Commission to develop the European trade mark law in that way that especially smaller and medium-sized family businesses are better protected from unreasonable, coated trademark lawsuits of international enterprises.
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Draws attention to the important role of family farms in rural regions of many member states and calls on the Member States to support business training aimed specifically at farmers; urges in particular, in that connection, that support should be given to training projects for young entrepreneurs who run family farms with a view to increasing their successful involvement in farming and regional organisations;