Activities of Hannu TAKKULA related to 2015/2282(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs (A8-0162/2016 - Rosa D'Amato) FI
Amendments (13)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) award exists since 2009, launched by the Committee of the Regions to encourage the implementation of the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) at regional and local level;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Supports therefore the European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) Award, aimed at identifying and rewarding EU regions with outstanding, future-oriented entrepreneurial strategies applying ten principles of ‘Small Business Act for Europe’;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes in this respect that it is important to continue efforts to promote the green competitiveness of SMEs by improving access to finance, providing more information, simplifying legislation, cutting red tape and strengthening a green business culture;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that a greener value chain, which involves re-manufacturing, repair, maintenance, recycling and eco-design, can provide considerable business opportunities for many SMEs, but legislative, institutional, technical and cultural barriers prevent SMEs from taking advantage of this, and these barriers should be removed or, if this is impossible, ways must be found of overcoming them;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned about the low absorption of funds devoted to SMEs in certain Member States in the 2007-2013 programming period, and warns that the underlying reasons need to be addressed in order to avoid any recurrence of the same problems in the 2014-2020 programming period, such as the administrative procedures making it cumbersome for SMEs to apply for the available funds, should be addressed in order to avoid any recurrence of the same problems in the 2014-2020 programming period; regrets the too general and incomplete nature of the existing studies at European level and in the Member States on the efficiency and real impact of Structural Funds on SMEs and particularly on small and micro enterprises in terms of gains in competitiveness, innovation and job creation;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its calls to enhance transparency and the participation of all relevant regional and local authorities, civil society stakeholders and interested parties; is concerned that still many SMEs organizations in the Member States are not really involved and often only informed without being adequately consulted; reiterates, therefore, the need for implementation of the partnership principle as detailed in the Common Provisions Regulation and the Code of Conduct on Partnership;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure enhanced coordination and consistency among all EU investment policies targeted at SME, including Capital Markets Union initiatives, targeted at SMEs; as well as to increase European SMEs´ awareness of their financial options; welcomes the plan to ease access to ESI funds through the introduction of a ‘seal of excellence’ for projects which have been evaluated as ‘excellent’ but are not financed by Horizon 2020; urgesCalls therefore the Commission and the Member States to provide a cone-stop shop at regional levelsolidated platform for the various EU financing instruments aimed at SMEs;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the High Level Group on Simplification to draw attention to the need for SMEpropose practical measures to reduce the administrative burdenand financial burden SMEs project managers have to face and simplify procedures in the management of ESI Funds; requests that such simplification measures respect Small Business Act rules of ´´Only once´´ and ´´Think small first´´, and be conceived and implemented at different levels in total cooperation with representatives of different categories of SMEs in order to meet their specific needs;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to urgently find a lasting solution to the backlog of payments related to regional policy, including in the application of and to properly apply the Late Payment Directive, so as to ensure that SMEs, as project partners, will not be deterred from taking part in support programmes and projects during the current programming period on account of payment delays;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Reiterates that digital is profoundly changing the whole world, also in terms of SMEs opportunities and new challenges that derive; reiterates therefore the importance of supporting initiatives to make digital part of the education and training or re-training systems for youth, jobseekers and workers; calls to support strengthening the innovative uses of ICT by SMEs, in particular the digital literacy, e-learning, e-inclusion, e-skills and related entrepreneurial skills;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Managing Authorities to take into consideration the characteristics and specific competences of individual territories, especially also of outmost regions with a view to promoting both traditional and innovative economic sectors; calls on the Commission to draw up specific programmes which embody all relevant green growth elements for SMEs; stresses the need for youth entrepreneurship potential to be used to the full in the context of green growth, as a way to reconcile economic growth with environmental sustainability; Believes this necessitates better training possibilities to prepare young people for the green economy in the different Member States;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls that often small and micro enterprises, which do not have the internal human, financial and organizational resources to be directly involved in ESIF, can only have such an access via their local organizations and associations; calls therefore to better support their collective actions and activities of coaching/ mentoring; notes also that the technical assistance of Thematic objective 11 must benefit to all the partners referred to in Article 5 of the CPR on partnership and that it is still usually reserved to administrative services; calls therefore to ensure the access of the territorial SME organizations to the provisions of TO 11 and to capacity building measures;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17