7 Amendments of Dominique VLASTO related to 2008/2237(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Parliament has frequently noted with regret that the lack of binding legal force of the European Charter for Small Enterprises has not enabled its genuine implementation and that its ten recommendations have for the most part gone unheeded; whereas it consequently requested the Council to look into that matter, in its above-mentioned resolution of 19 January 2006,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that since most of the actions referred to in the corresponding communication are being, or could be, implemented under existing legal frameworks, the truly innovative aspect of the Small Business Act is its intention to place the ‘Think Small First’ principle at the heart of Community policies; emphasises, therefore the absolute necessity of implementing that principle at European, national and local level;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Asks the European Union institutions to undertake to apply the ‘Think Small First’ principle through a legal instrument that ensures its implementation in all Community programmes and legislation; requests the Commission to bring forward a proposal to that end; also recommends that Member States and their local and regional authorities, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, apply that principle at national and local level;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the EIB to rapidly put in place new financial instruments for SMEs; stresses, in the context of relations between banks and SMEs, the importance of improving the transparency of SMEs’ credit ratings and of the services charged to them by banks;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Recommends, in connection with public procurement, the establishment of practices such as: requiring contracting authorities to justify the non-splitting of contracts; extending the possibility of responding as a consortium to public calls for tender; and making the requirement to pay advances general practice for all public procurement contracts;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Points out that the Commission’s existing consultation period of 8 weeks should be extended to at least 12 weeks and that consultation documents should befrom the date on which the consultation is available in all EU languages; calls on the Commission and SME organisations to involve SMEs actively and directly in the consultation process;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)