11 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2014/2210(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas family businesses range in scope from small firms to corporations and represent 60 % of all European companies, providing between 40 % and 50 % of all jobs and range in scope from small firms to corporations which means the problems and difficulties they experience differ;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas family businesses are of various sizes, which exposes them to different difficulties and problems;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the majority of family businesses are SMEs;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas family businesses play a vital role in regional development, in terms of employment and regional planning;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas family businesses play a vital role in regional development, in terms of employment, transmission of know-how and regional organisation;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas family businesses demonstrate significant social responsibility by taking a long-term and sustainable approach to their development, contributing not only to their own competitiveness but also to the maintenance and creation of jobs in the area where they are established;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the work being undertaken on an EU definition of ‘ʽfamily business’, andʼ, with a view to gathering comparable data in the Member States and thus being able to compare them and analyse their evolution; calls for the specificities within Member States’ definitions to be taken into account in this process, in particular with regard to guaranteeing social rights, social security, pension entitlements and health and safety at work;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that the financial crisis and subsequent recession have dealt a heavy blow to European SMEs, many of which are family businesses, and highlights the importance of a favourable regulatory framework to support healthy restructuring and thus job retention; stresses that as passing the business on from one generation to the next is the main challenge facing family businesses, it is important that Member States improve the legal framework for the transfer of family businesses and facilitate financing for these transfers thereby preventing cash- flow problems and distress sales and ensuring family businesses survive;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure family businesses are better informed about opportunities for international development and to improve exchanges of experience and good practices, notably through the EURES programme supporting cross-border mobility on labour markets, and thereby bolster the viability and prosperity of family businesses, which are important job creators; emphasises the importance of the EURES-T service which can advise on labour mobility opportunities in cross- border regions and help cross-border workers to deal with legal, administrative and tax problems connected with labour mobility;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws the Commission’ʼs attention to the need for equal treatment of big multinationals and family businesses so as to ensure a balanced level fact that the majority of family businesses are SMEs and that applaying field in terms of competition, while respecting the unique nature of family businesses, in particular in those Member States in which such businesses were destroyed after 1945.the ʽthink small firstʼ principle is therefore essential in order to better adapt EU legislation to the realities and needs of these businesses, and enable them to benefit from funding programmes and a reduction in red tape;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Draws the Commission’s attention to the fact that the majority of family businesses are SMEs and that it is therefore of the utmost importance to apply the principle ‘think small first’, in order better to adapt European legislation to the realities and needs of these undertakings and to enable them to take advantage of aid programmes and measures to reduce administrative constraints;