3 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2011/2288(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that in most European countries, large firms generate a substantive part of the business sector value added, and insists that for geographically targeted support, the size of the enterprise should not matter as the onlymain criteriona should be the quality and required sustainability of the project. Nevertheless, these criteria should be reconciled with the potential offered by small and medium-sized enterprises in terms of job creation, diversification and economic flexibility, and this is what the cohesion policy is currently doing;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that in the world of global competition, an option of cohesion policy support is a key asset in attracting foreign investment insofar as it provides added value for companies when deciding in which world region to develop their operation capacities and where to transfer their knowhow;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Endorses the economic rationale of a place-based development policy rooted in the fundamental logic that the interest of the Union’s less-developed regions is likely to increase, should they be able to offer competitive comparative advantages as well as firm sets of incentives; in this context requests the Commission to support Member States and regions to pursue their own investment incentives policies, with flexible application of competition law and the State aid system;