Activities of Edit HERCZOG related to 2011/0394(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Competitiveness of enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (2014 - 2020) - Entrepreneurship 2020 action plan - Reigniting the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) support for the development of systems to help European citizens set up enterprises and access markets outside their own Member State in order better to tap the potential in the European single market;
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c b (new)
(cb) creation of a European enterprise knowledge-base and e-learning system in the languages of all 27 Member States together with a register of advisors and an online advisory platform, enabling Member State-specific information to be accessed quickly and easily.
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
(2) Particular attention shall be paid to young entrepreneurs, new and potential entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs, as well, therefore, as specific target groupsbodies with specialist knowledge which support them.
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
(3) The Commission may support Member States'’ measures to build- up entrepreneurial education, skills and attitudes, in particular among potential and new entrepreneurs., as well as programmes promoting self-employment and entry into entrepreneurship among young would-be entrepreneurs;
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3 a) Particular attention must be paid to eliminating youth unemployment, motivating unemployed young people to become self-employed and entrepreneurs, taking into account the specialisations of the target group and making use of the target-group-specific knowledge of young people’s enterprise development organisations;
Amendment 350 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2 a) In order to fill the financing gaps in the life-cycle of enterprises, there is a need to support assistance for start-up, innovative enterprises to enter the growth phase as soon as possible and to promote the progress of start-up enterprises to a stage where they can attract capital. This will be helped by new projects being ready to receive seed and venture capital as soon as possible, the objective being to promote the growth of the venture capital market and thus of business (and of the EU economy).
Amendment 448 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Specific Objective: To improve access to finance for SMEs in the form of equity and debt – Financial instruments for growth
Annex I – Specific Objective: To improve access to finance for SMEs in the form of equity and debt – Financial instruments for growth
Specific objective: To improve access to finance for SMEs in the form of equity and debt Result indicator Latest known result Medium term target (result) 2017 Financial Instruments for growth Number of firms receiving loan (credit) Proposed instruments are not yet launched and Number of firms receiving loan (credit) guarantees and value of lending not the same as current instruments, so data guarantees (+/- 95 000) and value of lending from current instruments may not be (+/- €10.7 billon) comparable Number of VC-backed firms and value of Number of VC-backed firms: (+/- 180) and investments (of which cross border deals) value of investments (+/- €220m) (new) Number of Member States Financial institutions from at least 20 (or all participating in the capital and loan 27) Member States should take part in the programmes programme.