3 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2013/2176(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that, according to Eurostat, the economic crisis has made it harder for SMEs to obtain bank loans and that, between 2007 and 2010, in 19 of the 20 Member States for which figures are available there was an increase in the proportion of loan applications that met with a refusal;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Asks the Council to adopt the most ambitious measures proposed by the Commission and the European Investment Bank in the context of the joint risk-sharing mechanism to be developed under the new MFF by blending EU budget resources (from COSME and Horizon 2020) and structural fund monies with the lending capacity of the EIB, the EIF and publicly owned national development banks;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Asks Member States and regions to put effective information and support systems in place so as to enable SMEs to benefit from EU funding; points out that, although Member States spent a total of EUR 23 billion between 2007 and 2011 on operational programmes to support SMEs, the linkage between EU policies and SMEs is still complicated, mainly because of the multi-tiered management of the EU funds, the burden of red tape, tight deadlines for submitting tenders, the over-complexity of financial engineering tools and the fact that SMEs do not have sufficient reserves to meet the pre- financing requirement for certain projects;