5 Amendments of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2014/2210(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas family businesses may in positive cases differ in terms of values from non-family corporations as regards long-term orientation, have a special degree of commitment to their local community – rooted in the European tradition of the ‘'honourable merchant’' – and are generally slower to close down and put workers out of jobs;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the work being undertaken on an EU definition of ‘'family business’', and calls for the specificities within Member States’' definitions to be taken into account, in particular with regard to guaranteeing social rights, social security, pension entitlements and health and safety at work in these family businesses;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on those working on an EU definition of "family business" to make sure the definition meets the diversity of families found in EU societies and ensures non-discrimination of family forms, rather than limiting it to a concept of family meaning a man, a woman and their biological children.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that the financial crisis and subsequent recession have dealt a heavy blow to European SMEs, many of which are family businesses; , and highlights the importance of a favourable regulatory framework to support healthy restructuringas regards especially access to finance, tax justice, inclusive social security protection of all actors in SME structures; stresses that a well-targeted support towards healthy restructuring, could have major positive effects on job retention; stresses the local job creation potential for SMEs of new and emerging sectors such as the circular economy and thus job retention;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws the Commission’'s attention to the need forfact that equal treatment of big multinationals and family businesses so as to ensure a balanced level playing field in terms of competition, while respecting the unique nature of family businesses, in particular in those Member States in which such businesses were destroyed after 1945family businesses is at risk in what concerns multinationals and their options to evade tax in comparison to geographically bound family businesses.