1 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2012/2134(INI)
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Commission's new funding programmes, which take into account the specific characteristics of SMEs; invites the Commission to carry out an impact assessment of increasing the level of the threshold of market capitalisation value below which a company is defined as a listed SME, such an increasing allowing more SMEs to be eligible to the Commission's new funding programmes and measures put in place to attract investments; calls on the Commission to further develop EU funding tailor-made for SMEs; underlines that fragmentation of funding should be avoided and that funding can be effective only when it is able to cover a substantial part of what is needed by the SMEs in question;