6 Amendments of Johan NISSINEN related to 2023/2110(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU recognises the potential of start-ups and scale-ups to drive innovation, economic growth and job creation within the EU, address societal challenges, promote sustainability and contribute to the objectives set out in the European Green Deal, the digital Europe programme, the new European innovation agenda and the updated EU industrial strategy. Regrets that the EU Green Deal approach is largely based on bans, bureaucracy and detailed targets. Recalls in contrast that the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), relies exclusively on market incentives, in order to avoid micro-management and that US legislators pick winners and losers. Is convinced that the IRA approach avoids bureaucratic hurdles and produces a more competitive, sustainable and innovative SME sector in the long run;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to propose harmonised definitions of a start- up and a scale-up respectively, taking into account how they differ from one another and the clear distinction between them and SMEs. However seeking to strike a balance between standardization and flexibility, given that there is no one-size- fits-all definition that can capture the complexity of the entrepreneurial landscape;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the creation of the European Innovation Council Fund to support innovative start-ups, however is worried about criticisms about the slow EU funding bureaucracy, which lacks the necessary efficiency of its operations, given that start-up in the past had to wait years for funding, making it impossible to grow at the same pace as US competitors. Deplores that it remains very tough to build a scalable deeptech company in the EU;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to support and facilitate the participation of innovative start-ups and scale-ups in technologically neutral EU funding programmes and projects contributing to the twin green and digital transitioneconomic growth, sustainability and innovation, while constantly making efforts to reduce red-tape and unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles of the programmes;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the establishment of start- up-friendly regulations and frameworks that facilitate the growth, scalability and cross-border operations of start-ups and scale-ups, while ensuring consumer protection, data privacy and fair competition. Deplores the ever increasing direct and indirect compliance burden by EU legislation for SMEs and the economy as a whole, which is characterised by a significant increase in time and costs, for example by ever-new reporting obligations;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Welcomes the recent initiative of the German Federal Government to propose a "European Bureaucracy Reduction Initiative" with the aim of introducing a "Bureaucracy Cost Index" for EU regulation. Regrets that there is currently not enough data at EU level to allow for a thorough stocktaking and problem analysis, in order to enable the reduction of red tape in EU regulation for SMEs and the economy as a whole;1a _________________ 1a https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Press emitteilungen/2023/08/20230830- europaeische-entlastungsinitiative-zum- buerokratieabbau.html