5 Amendments of Jean-Jacob BICEP related to 2012/2134(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that ensuring sufficient and timely access to finance for SMEs stimulates and reinforces economic growth, job creation and labour productivity; stresses the need, however, to ensure that this funding generates strong regional development and protects local jobs;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that cohesion policy, being the main tool of convergence and sustainable development of the EU, is one of the main sources of support for its SMEs; underlines, therefore, that, in the context of this convergence objective, preferential access to finance for SMEs should be granted to the least developed regions or to those undergoing economic difficulties, in order to improve sub- optimal investment situations;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the need to further stimulate simplification of administrative procedures at European, national and subnational levels for the beneficiaries, especially for SMEs, when applying for EU funds or when using existing financial instruments.; encourages a principle of priorities and of shared management in access to finance – fundamental concepts that underpin cohesion policy and enable regional and national authorities to take part in the planning and implementation of such funding;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Supports the Commission's proposal to recognise the heterogeneity of SMEs in Europe's regions and the need to implement a broad range of tailored programmes and instruments; encourages the Commission to go further in developing measures that are tailored to the specific regional circumstances in which SMEs develop, taking account, in particular, of the constraints and disadvantages linked to their outermost or island locations (limited size of local markets, distance of market outlets and supply sources, need for larger stocks, etc.);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for the provision of both a clear, simple and transparent legal framework for access to finance and an ex ante and ex post evaluation system concerning the role of SMEs in the social, economic and environmental transition under way; calls on the Commission to lay down, in the rules concerned, useful requirements relating to the monitoring of beneficiaries and environmental prerogatives in order to ensure that economic dynamism is fair and sustainable;