7 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2012/2042(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that by strengthening economic growth and social and territorial cohesion, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) have a crucial role to play in the efforts to reach the EU 2020 objectives; notes that the economic and fiscal crisis has had a dramatic impact on the position and perspectives of many SMEs, and that there is an urgent need for access to financing; cohesion policy is particularly useful for tackling in an efficient way the situations pinpointed by the Commission concerning the needs States must address in order to support the technological change needed to boost competitiveness;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2. Supports the Commission’s objective of supporting a transition towards a sustainable economy that is less carbon- dependent, with a view to greater ensuing long-term competitiveness; stresses the contribution cohesion policy makes in this field;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Supports likewise the Commission’s plans to develop the social economy, bearing in mind its weight in the EU economy now; recalls also in this regard the contributions made by the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for better coordination and synergyof aid for research and innovation, as well as for greater coordination and synergy in general between different European, national and regional policies directly addressing SMEs; points out that existing initiatives and financial instruments for SME support should be more coherent, and should complement each other; stresses the need to reduce fragmentation, and to consolidate financial support schemes for SMEs, in order to ensure greater pooling and coordination of resources at European, regional and national levels;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. SNotes that the economic and fiscal crisis has had a dramatic impact on the situation and perspectives of many SMEs, and that there is an urgent need for access to financing; stresses that the Structural Funds should continue to provide financing to SMEs by means of equity, guarantees and loans, and underlines that complex administrative procedures, as well as significant differences between the provisions applied respectively by managing authorities and intermediate bodies, should be avoided;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Suggests that national and EU policies take specific account of the services sector, and particularly the consolidation and integration of services in the manufacturing sector;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Asks that regional specificities be taken into account when devising different initiatives, in that SMEs comprise the basic economic structure, giving particular thought to regions and territories with special geo-demographic territorial features, such as islands, mountainous regions and sparsely populated regions, as well as those regions affected by a singular and profound structural change;