6 Amendments of Françoise GROSSETÊTE related to 2012/2042(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas micro-enterprises and SMEs suffer, in times of economic crisis, from difficulties in accessing funding, particularly small loans, to support their development;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes making the large number of local, regional, national and European support schemes undergo a ‘mapping exercise’; believes that this exercise should include private-sector initiatives to help SMEs access funding, such as partnerships between banks and accountancy professionals to facilitate access by micro-enterprises to small loans, as well as an assessment of the effectiveness of existing EU support schemes; believes that the mapping should be conducted at regular intervals and serve as basis for a benchmark and scoreboard system;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a rational use of the budget allocated to the COSME programme and, in particular, underlines the need to further improve access to finance for SMEs and the role that the private sector could play, particularly accountancy professionals; calls for the simplification and rationalisation of the various Community instruments devoted to access to credit or venture capital, in particular for SMEs with internationalisation plans;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the achievement of the 2012 target on minimising administrative burdens; urges the Commission to come up with a new and ambitious reduction target that is qualitative, and no longer simply quantitative, in accordance with the ‘Think Small First’ principle;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Urges Member States to implement ambitious programmes based on incentives to further promote entrepreneurship; calls for such programmes to include measures that improve access to finance, to ease administrative requirements and to include more entrepreneurial education in school curricula; believes that these measures should support private-sector initiatives that make it possible to reduce the time required to obtain small-scale funding, such as partnerships between banks and accountancy professionals;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Supports private-sector initiatives designed to facilitate access by SMEs to funding, particularly for micro- enterprises, such as partnerships between banks and accountancy professionals designed to reduce to 15 days the time required to obtain a small loan (less than EUR 25 000); believes that these partnerships are effective for micro- enterprises because, firstly, accountancy professionals prepare and send online all the financial documents required by the bankers and provide a certain level of assurance on the forecasts supplied by the micro-enterprises, while, secondly, the banks place standardised funding applications online and provide reasons for refusals of funding applications;