2 Amendments of Paul RÜBIG related to 2016/2032(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the EU budget should further facilitate SME access to funding and markets; and promote a sufficiently diversified range of equity instruments across the Union, which is needed along the growth path of a company;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that bank lending still is one of the most important source of financing for European SMEs and therefore urges a healthy and stable banking sector in order to strengthen SMEs' access to finance; backs in this context the SME supporting factor which should be implemented as a permanent basis, ensuring that regulations follow the proportionality principle and acknowledge the specific role small local banks play for SME finance;