5 Amendments of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2020/2131(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the COVID-19 crisis has had an unprecedented socio- economic impact on SMEs, especially in the cultural and creative sectors, education, youth, sports and media. The cultural and creative industries contribute alone to more than 8.7 million fulltime jobs, from which many are SMEs (3.8 percent of the EU’s workforce), additionally the cultural and creative industries’ turnover was €375 billion in total in 2018; calls on the European Commission to revise its SME strategy for sustainable and digital Europe, ensuring that funds allocated to European SMEs are widely and readily accessible across Member States, and reach these sectors in order to enable them to address current challenges, and maintain high levels of employment;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the importance of accessible funding for SMEs across Europe, especially in the cultural, creative, educational, youth, media and sports sectors; calls on the European Commission to increase the accessibility of funding, in particular in the upcoming InvestEU programme, and to provide equal financial opportunities in all EU Member States; highlights the need for appropriate and effective rules for implementation and utilization of cohesion policies for SMEs in the Cultural and Creative Industries;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the budget of the Cultural And Creative Sector Guarantee Facility, which during the last budget period from 2014- 2020 has benefitted SMEs by securing loans for initiatives in the cultural and creative industry. The Cultural And Creative Sector Guarantee Facility could be included under the InvestEU Program;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Emphasizes the important role of Horizon Europe in helping the CCI to innovate and develop new technologies, that can have a positive impact on an open and pluralistic cultural creative participation; in this regard welcomes the creation of CCI KIC under the EIT strategy; Underlines the need to simplify the procedures for SMEs in CCI, when applying for funds and calls for a one- stop-shop solution for SMEs applying for funds under Union programmes;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. RStrongly regrets the lack of ambition of the revised proposal on the next MFF concerning sufficient funding for the cultural and creative industry, and the lack of specific financial support for these sectors in the new Recovery Plan; urges, in this context, the Commission and Member States to increase the budget of the Creative Europe, Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmessome of the most successful Union programmes: Creative Europe and Erasmus+;