10 Amendments of Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS related to 2015/2320(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that both public and private support to young people – that channels investment into education and skills, helps young people acquire entrepreneurship skills and matches SMEs’ demand for skilled workers – should be strengthened; stresses that this support should be granted both for setting up a business and for improving the running and management of businesses already set up, in particular for businesses carrying out or intending to carry out their commercial activity outside the EU’s borders;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide further support for female entrepreneurship, given that women still have to overcome considerable gender barriers in order to start up and develop a business;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws attention to regional disparities and imbalances in SMEs’ access to funding from national promotional banks, EU funded programmes and other private and public funding institutions; calls for a correction mechanism at EU level to ensure a level playing field for all SMEs – with special focus on poorer regions and regions facing serious problems of depopulation and/or dispersion, as well as on countries that have been under financial and economic constraints – in accessing funding from EU-supported financial instruments while using intermediaries;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Invites the Commission, before it initiates a full-fledged debate with Parliament on the future Financial Framework and on cohesion policy in the post-2020 period, to carry out the quantitative studies necessary to gauge the impact of SME support polices and instruments, which would make it possible to carry out preparatory work by monitoring results and assessing their effectiveness compared with that of other forms of assistance not geared towards businesses below a given size;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EIB to keep Parliament informed of the concrete measures taken so far to enhance the access to funding of cooperativsocial economy enterprises, which, together with SMEs, can play an important role in creating more sustainable and decent quality jobs;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost information and training channels for small businesses and entrepreneurs on the various European funding possibilities that they can access, so that they can acquire information on all the financial instruments provided for them by the European budget; calls for the greatest possible simplification in terms of both documents and procedures in order to facilitate access to these financial instruments, as well as greater flexibility in this regard;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas access to finance is one of the main barriers to the creation and growth of SMEs, particularly in the case of social economy enterprises;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas SMEs play an important role in cohesion and can further help integrate youth in employment, and inclusively integrate migrants in the EUstrengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion, while also contributing to more intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas SMEs contribute to the integration of young people and women into the labour market, and may also help improve the inclusion of migrants in the Union;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas even though 90% of global growth is occurring outside the EU, only 13% of SMEs have been internationally active outside the EU;