Activities of Francesco Enrico SPERONI related to 2012/2134(INI)
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Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the lack of specialised financial and legal knowledge available to a majority of SMEs, which renders theirConsiders the measures proposed by the Commission to be insufficient to help SMEs which, despite the adoption of those measures, will continue to find access to capital difficult; points out, in addition, that SMEs often find European legislation an administrative burden and hard to interpret, which also affects their access to capital;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to consider a broaderurgently a broader and more effective review of EU financial and regulatory legislation which currently burdens SMEs and to present legislative solutions following its examination of the tax obstacles to cross-border venture capital investments in the EU;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that an ever-increasing number of SMEs are winding up or entering bankruptcy, with a knock-on effect in terms of job losses; notes that the growth measures adopted by the EU to date have clearly not been sufficiently effective, and calls on the Commission urgently to adopt measures dedicated more specifically to access to capital for SMEs, their revitalisation and boosting employment;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that, owing to clear political inertia, the recent liquidity issue by the ECB has worked solely to the advantage of those banking institutions able to access it, which have used that issue to purchase government bonds at interest rates up to seven times more advantageous than the rates the ECB is charging them. That liquidity issue has in no way enhanced or facilitated access to credit for SMEs, which have been completely overlooked and excluded from it; calls on the Commission to take urgent and effective steps to frame appropriate legislative instruments that enable SMEs to have similar direct, swift and convenient access to credit;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to make the revitalisation of SMEs and support for them the focal point of its future policies, and stresses that a future outlook for Europe based solely on the provision of services will not generate growth;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the driving force behind the European economy has until now been the hundreds of thousands of SMEs that have made product quality and manufacturing excellence a characteristic of European products in comparison to those of global competitors;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the fact that discrimination can occur in access to finance in the case of SMEs run by women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and members of other minority groups, and calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise this potential for discrimination and to request, as one way of tackling this discrimination, that lendeCalls on the Commission and Member States to request that lenders and financial and banking operators provide detailed justification when refusing SMEs access to capital.