11 Amendments of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2012/2114(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on the access of third country goods and services to the European Union's internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of European Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries (2012/0060 (COD)),
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas European SMEs have been particularly affected by the worldwide economic and financial crisis and their internationalisation beyond the single market is a means of expanding abroad;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas only 13% of European SMEs operate on markets outside the EU;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
Ic. whereas the reluctance of European SMEs to develop their international activities is mainly due to the lack of analysis or pre-analysis of their export opportunities;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to apply the principle of reciprocity to the EU’s common trade policy with its main trading partners so as to promote access by European SMEs to the public procurement markets of third countries;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that recurrent difficulties in accessing capital are one of the key reasons preventing SMEs’ internationalisation; calls on the national governments to support SMEs by allowing European employees to invest their savings in a common SME investment fund, by means of export insurance and making credit available to them from Member States’ ECAs, and also to earmark sufficient funding for SMEs (e.g. special loans, cofinancing and venture capital), so as to help overcome disinvestment and deleveraging by banks; stresses that such funding should be provided to SMEs that are already exporting and which can present a viable business plan for improving or consolidating their existing market share and creating jobs, especially for young people; considers that support for start-ups offering innovative goods and services and for SMEs in need of initial investment should not be overlooked;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make European SMEs more aware of trade agreements that are being negotiated and international investment opportunities open to SMEs;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to adopt single enterprise helpdesks at the local level, run in cooperation with EU businesses, so that SMEs can receive, in their own language and for immediate use, information regarding export/import opportunities, existing barriers to trade (both tariffs and NTBs), investment protection, dispute settlement provisions and competitor, competitors and a knowledge and understanding of cultural and human practices in third markets;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for a network to be set up between SMEs and large European companies to enable SMEs to reap the benefits of these companies’ expertise and export and innovation capacities;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to promote exchanges between the heads of European and foreign SMEs along the lines of the ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ programme that currently exists at European Union level;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Regrets the lack of specific means available to European businesses, and particularly SMEs, to counter IPR infringements effectively; welcomes the Commission’s decision to propose a review of the directive on the enforcement of IPR; calls on the Commission and Member States to defend IPR better in all relevant multilateral organisations (the WTO, the World Health Organisation and the World Intellectual Property Organisation);