5 Amendments of Rosa D'AMATO related to 2015/2320(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on Member States to focus on facilitating an adequate EU funding mix for SMEs – grants, loans, guarantees, equity, microfinance – in view of the ever- increasing role of financial instruments and synergies between instruments funded by the EU budget through the ERDF and through direct management programmes such as Horizon 2020, the PSCI, COSME and LIFE; suggests a more cautious approach towards financial instruments, which should be used consistently with the goals of economic, social and territorial cohesion; considers, moreover, that better information and empirical evidence of the usefulness of financial instruments in cohesion policy should be provided;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to focus efforts on regions with low take-up of financial instruments, including scale-up financing for the transition from start-ups to SMEs, in view of the important role of financial products in operational programmes, the EFSI and the EIB Group operationprovided that there is a suitable training and support to the Local and Regional Authorities;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges both the Member States and the Commission to make significant progress in further simplification of EU funding by 2017 with regard to application, management and monitoring/control of projects by introducing an EU-wide public procurement procedure, complete e- cohesion, a single audit based on risk, the reduction of data and information requirements and the elimination of gold- plating through extensive regulatory optimisation; stresses, however, the need to ensure a proper balance between simplification on the one hand, and the detection and prevention of irregularities, including fraud, on the other;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. stresses that microcredit, which mostly aims microentrepreneurs and disadvantaged people who wish to enter into self-employment, is pivotal in overcoming obstacles in accessing traditional bank services;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8