8 Amendments of Aldo PATRICIELLO related to 2014/2210(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Commission’s group of experts on family businesses completed its work more than five years ago and no new European initiative has been launched since then at EU level addressing the special needs and structures of family businesses;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes warmly the work being undertaken on an EU definition of ‘family business’, and calls for the specificities within Member States’ definitions to be taken into account, in particular with regard to guaranteeing social rights, social security, pension entitlements and health and safety at work;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that family businesses demonstrate a high degree of social responsibility towards their staff and that they generally take a more sustainable and longer-term approach to the economic future of the business (by acting as ‘honourable businessmen’) than non- family businesses and thus make an important contribution to Europe’s competitiveness andby createing and maintaining jobs;
Amendment 68 #
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 in particular, many of which are family businesses, and highlights the importance of a favourable regulatory framework to support healthy restructuring and thus job retention;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws the Commission’s attention to the absolute need for equal treatment of big multinationals and family businesses so as to ensure a balanced level playing 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.
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to commission studies that analyse the importance of ownership for the success and survival of a business and highlight the specific challenges facing family businesses; calls on the Commission also, moreover, to collect enough data on family businesses in the various Member States both to allow a comparison of the situation of family businesses and to promote exchanges of examples of good practices;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to conduct an impact assessment of the extent to which a revision of the European SME definition from 2003 would be possible, moving away fromincluding, in addition to purely quantitative criteria to, qualitative criteria that also take into account the ownership of a company, bearing in mind the interdependence of ownership, control and management and, generally, the personal aspect of running a business, and the consequences this could have on family businesses, for example, with regard to state aid and the eligibility of suchopportunity for subsidising businesses;