5 Amendments of Georgios PAPASTAMKOS related to 2008/2205(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission's efforts to provide the EU with a global strategy covering all external aspects of European competitiveness and helping to ensure that the Lisbon Strategy objectives are fully achieved, but notes with regret the absence of any specific initiatives in favour of SMEs; calls on the Commission and the Council to remedy this shortcoming without delay and to set ambitious and, at the same time, realistic objectives and make the necessary means and resources available; notes the importance of an effective Trade Barriers Regulation as a complementary instrument to that end;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes the view that the Commission's position would not only have failed to enhance the external competitiveness of European industry but would have caused further serious damage to those Community industrial sectors jeopardised by foreign products illegally subsidised or unduly favoured by dumping practices; stresses that the TDI system must continue to be a quasi-judicial procedure, based on objective and factual assessments, in order to provide for predictability and legal certainty;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that the Commission make the trade defence system more effective, transparent and sensitive to the needs of European industry and, in particular, SMEs; considers it necessary to improve the services offered by the SME desk set up by the Commission a few years ago, which has so far been largely ineffective; states in that respect that targeted assistance should be provided to SMEs throughout all the different stages of trade defence investigations;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that the internationalisation of SMEs is a primary objective of trade policy and should constitute a cornerstone of the European Small Business Act, which will act as a stable, homogeneous, binding and global framework for the Commission's policies for SMEs; on the basis of the "Think small first" principle;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Recalls the importance of access to agricultural markets for European SMEs in the sector and calls on the Commission, in the context of the future multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations, not to give up the remaining tariff safeguards enjoyed by the sector and instead to guarantee that the most competitive and well-known European agricultural products are not unduly penalised by anti-competitive practices introduced by other WTO members; considers that substantial progress on geographical indications (GIs) is indispensable for a balanced outcome in the Doha agricultural negotiations;