Activities of Jürgen CREUTZMANN related to 2010/2245(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Innovation Union: transforming Europe for a post-crisis world
Amendments (9)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the rapid development towards the innovation unEuropean internal market contributes positively to the implementation of innovations and the launch of a European Social Innovation pilot would have a high impact on productivity and would enable sustainable economic growth as well as job creationnce to growth and job creation by encouraging competition and increasing the potential custom for innovative products and services; welcomes the Commission’s broad strategic approach, which combines both demand- and supply-based instruments with horizontal and sectoral instruments;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need for SMEs and micro- enterpriserapidly growing and innovative SMEs to have access to affordable finance by increasing the scope for participation in different innovative projectensuring the availability of credit guarantee and loan guarantee schemes; sees a need to leverage existing programmes at national and EU level and endorses the important role played by EIB SME loans; stresses the need to improve the European venture capital market by creating more investment incentives for private investors, eliminating obstacles to cross- border operation of venture capital funds and facilitating the listing of innovative businesses on stock exchanges; urges the Commission to take appropriate steps to improve the functioning of the EU’s funding programmes by rewarding enterprises that prosimplifying the complex administrative procedures and making motre innovative projectsfunding available, particularly for the CIP Programme;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly advocates anAcknowledges that harmonised rules on products in the internal market, for example in the field of eco-innovation, action plan centred on SMEs and micro- enterprises in urban and rural regions whereby they would employ young peoplere an important precondition for the introduction of innovative products; calls on the Commission, in its impact assessments, to assess carefully the impact of further harmonisation geared to eco- innovation on competitiveness, jobs and the environment and to take account of the needs of SMEs;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of speeding up the simplification ofimplifying the EU’s research and innovation programmes and making grant application procedures less bureaucratic in order to increase the scopeincentives for enterprises to participate in EU-funded projects;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to support the efforts of the public sector to adopt innovative approaches, exploiting new technologies and procedures, for example in the field of e-government, and disseminating best practices in public administration which will reduce bureaucracy and embrace citizen-centred policies;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage the use of pre- commercial procurement as an integral part of the EU’s innovation strategy; calls in particular on the Commission to clarify the relevant rules and enablesupport contracting authorities across the board to make actualin making more transparent use of pre-commercial procurement, without prejudice to the competition rules which are applicable;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt without delay the EU patent and the European patent court system under the enhanced cooperation procedure;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Welcomes the promised Commission initiative to accelerate and modernise the adoption of European standards, particularly the adjustments necessitated by the special dynamics of the ICT sector and improved access to standards for SMEs;