3 Amendments of Maria GRAPINI related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the increase in budget line 02 04 02 03 ‘Increasing innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)’ and budget line 02 03 ‘Internal market for goods and services’, and suggests that the Commission monitor the effectiveness of the projects financed in order to increase innovation for SMEs;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is concerned at the drastic reduction in budget lines 02 02 01 (Promoting entrepreneurship and improving the competitiveness and access to markets of Union enterprises) and 02 02 02 (Improving access to finance for small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the form of equity and debt) as part of the COSME programme; considers this reduction to be inadvisable, bearing in mind that the programme is at an early stage;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks for the financing of a new pilot project entitled ‘Consumer Empowerment and Education in the Digital Single Market (DSM)’, contributing to a large public education campaign to support consumer and business understanding and appreciation of the challenges associated with e-commerce; stresses that this should help citizens and SMEs comply with consumer protection law in the online environment; emphasises that, in a truly connected DSM, every consumer should be able to trust the safety of products purchased online; considers that better compliance with the rules would reduce consumer problems and benefit traders by avoiding problems with the enforcement authorities; takes the view that this pilot project could be a follow-up to the project proposed by the IMCO Committee in 2015, ‘Training SMEs on Consumer Rights in the Digital Age’;