4 Amendments of Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO related to 2015/2320(INI)
Amendment 7 #
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; believes that financing and entrepreneurship training should be considered to be inseparably linked when it comes to increasing revenue and generating more and better employment;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, not only to improve financing, but also to provide further support both for female entrepreneurship, given that women still have to overcome considerable gender barriers in order to start up and develop a business, and for youth entrepreneurship, to enable young people to acquire the entrepreneurial skills needed to set up a business and to improve the running and management of businesses already set up;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission and the Member States to focus efforts on regions with lowpromoting financial and non-financial services in less developed regions and to bring particular attention to bear when the take- up of financial instruments is found to be low or non-existent, 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 operations;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to, before it initiates a full- fledged debate with Parliament as early as 2016 on the future of cohesion policy, including scenarios and preparatory work for the post-2020 period, allowing regions and SMEs time for gearing up the post-2020 period, to carry out the quantitative studies necessary to gauge the impact of SME support polices and instruments, as this would make it possible to carry out preparatory work by monitoring results and assessing their effectiveness compared with that of other forms of assistance not geared towards businesses below a given size;