11 Amendments of Zigmantas BALČYTIS related to 2011/2107(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission's proposals on extending the use of innovative financial instruments to strengthen the leverage of the EU budget while fully respecting the rights of the budgetary and discharge authorities; asks the Commission to improve access for primary target groups such as SMEframework conditions and access to finance for primary target groups such as SMEs, and particularly seed and early-stage companies; demands that any SME-specific bank should function under the umbrella of the EIB; expresses its reservations about so-called ‘soft loans’ blurring the distinction between grants and loans;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of cohesion policy in developing research and innovation in the regions; believes that greater coordination is needed between the future ‘Common Strategic Framework’ for regional policy and the future ‘Common Strategic Framework’ for research and innovation programmes; calls on the Commission to set out how this is to be achieved in practice;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that agriculture will need to respond to specific challenges in the coming decades to ensure food security and sustainability: catering for the food needs of a growing population, with more resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable practices in response to growing scarcities (water, energy, soil depletion, etc.), taking into account the need to mitigate, and adapt to, climate change and to provide full and adequate information to consumers;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes it will be crucial to EU competitiveness to increase the participation of enterprises in the next Framework Programme; is of the opinion that entrepreneurs, especially owners of micro- and small enterprises such as small- scale coastal fishing enterprises, might be encouraged to participate in European programmes by the establishment of a greater simplified, less bureaucratic, more transparent and easily accessible system; believes that fishermen's organisations and Regional Advisory Councils should also be able to apply for small, practically oriented projects;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the European Commission to make a special effort to support female entrepreneurs access to adequate finance and increase the number of female entrepreneurs in the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP);
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports a further increase in the EU's annual budgets for research and innovation, as these have been proven to deliver excellent European added value and to aid recovery from the economic crisis and competitiveness; emphasises that the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs, adopted by the Council, clearly states the need for additional funds for research and innovation.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the Commission should improve access to finance and allocate part of the research budget to SMEs run by young people and businesswomen, rewarding the establishment of networks or clusters;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the need to simplify procedures and to ensure that the scheme features flexible mechanisms in order to keep up with the speed of global change and to enable policy priorities to be updated;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas national and regional authorities adopt different strategies, which gives rise duplication of effort, which in turn generates increased expenditure and fragmentation,
Amendment 50 #
Paragraphe 5
5. IStresses that SMEs are important to regional development in the EU and the industrial competitiveness of the Union as a whole; in the light of the need to improve the extent to which SMEs are benefiting from support for research and innovation, considers that this should be made a focus of cohesion policy, for example in relation to internationalisation or promotion of entrepreneurship, by reducing administrative barriers and creating open, light and fast implementation schemes that will encourage SMEs to be open to considering new opportunities;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Innovation Union flagship initiative, which advocates an integrated strategic approach to research and innovation and establishes the framework and objectives to which future EU research and innovation programmes should contribute;