9 Amendments of Aldo PATRICIELLO related to 2015/2042(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to multiply the initiatives and funding available for granting microcredit to innovative start- ups run by young people, in order to support youth entrepreneurship and high technological, scientific and social innovation at a time of economic crisis and difficulty in obtaining access to credit; stresses, moreover, the need for Member States to strive to reduce the red tape imposed on entrepreneurs in order to gain access to the funds made available to them by the EU;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission to increase the budget for the InnovFin instrument, provided for by the Horizon 2020 programme, and in particular the resources available to the microfinance product ‘InnovFin SME Guarantee Facility’;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of a financial instrument such as the Facility in times of financial crisis in order to ensure that unemployed people and microenterprises have access to financing, which are defined in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013, have access to financing, particularly in the event of a shortage of liquidity;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to assess the suitability of the current definition of microcredit, as referred to in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013, as it is not adaptable to all national markets and does not permit a clear distinction between microcredit and microloans, with a view to ensuring that future financial instruments meet the needs of the market; welcomes the fact that the balance and the reflows of the Facility will be injected into the budget of the MF/SE axis of EaSI, thus increasing the number of guarantees and funded instruments that will be offered to microborrowers;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Deplores the fact that, owing to the lack of well-defined social reporting, the social impact of the Facility has not been measured more accurately in terms of job creation, business sustainability and minority groups outreach; suggests, therefore, that suitable indicators be developed, and encourages the Commission to assess whether the definition of disadvantaged target groups needs to be clarified further (young people, pensioners, the unemployed, divorcees, single parents, people living in disadvantaged rural areas, recent graduates, people in precarious employment and women);
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to pursue equality between men and women in terms of access to microfinance and to envisage an equal target ratio between male and female entrepreneurs in the future, with due regard for the principle of equal pay for men and women as referred to in Article 157 TFEU;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the possibility under EaSI of funding capacity-building of MFIs and technical assistance for MFIs to improve their professionalisation, service delivery, and gathering and processing of data to allow better feedback about the Facility; proposes therefore the establishment of a website where projects can be presented and information about them can be found, and a Community database which includes credit information and perhaps the possibility of drawing attention to any obstacles (including – particularly – those of a bureaucratic nature);
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Deplores the fact that business development services, including mentoring and training, cannot be directly financed under EaSI, and calls on the Commission to investigate future financing avenues with appropriate new instruments in partnership with national or EU funds;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Encourages the Commission to strengthen its dialogue with microfinance actors (MFIs, banks or non-banks, networks such as the European Microfinance Network) regarding the design of the products to be offered under Union-funded programmes; proposes the setting-up of a single coordination agency to facilitate this dialogue;