2 Amendments of Inese VAIDERE related to 2015/2354(INI)
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the difficulties faced by businesses, and in particular SMEs and start-ups, in securing funding; calls on the Commission, while continuing the valuable support provided to those companies through the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and programmes such as Horizon 2020 and COSME, to explore ways of further facilitating access to them, especially for micro-enterprises, for instance by reducing calls for applications to six-month periods and further simplifying the relevant procedures; calls on the European Commission to use the EU budget guarantee to increase the share of loans to the SMEs, especially in smaller EU states with less developed local market;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises, in respect of the single market in services, that there is a clear need to improve the cross-border provision of services; urges the Member States to ensure proper and more effective application of the Services Directive, while avoiding the practice of gold-plating; welcomes the Commission proposal to improve notification under the Services Directive; agrees to extend the notification procedure provided for in Directive 2015/1535 to all the sectors not covered by that directive; calls on the Commission to address the burdens to the fractured banking sector in Europe which creates difficulties for non-residents, especially SMEs to open a bank account in another Member State;