5 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2010/2277(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that in a globalised world the single market has to ensure the best possible business environment for enterprises, and to take the specific nature of SMEs into account in order to foster job creation, innovation and entrepreneurship ial values, improvement of the profile of the entrepreneur and support for the business spirit and self-employment in all EU regions, including rural areas; welcomes, therefore, the planned assessment of the ‘Small Business Act’ and the reinforcement of the ‘Think Small First’ principle;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that real and effective single market accessibility for all EU regions is a prerequisite for the free movement of people, goods, capital and services, and thus for a strong and dynamic single market; points out, in this connection, the essential role played by the Union's regional policy in terms of developing infrastructure oriented to that end, particularly in the less developed and outermost regions and in those with specific territorial characteristics; calls for the development of innovative sources of funding (such as public-private partnerships, project bonds and user charges), as key instruments in favouring project execution; calls on the Commission and the Member States jointly to address the complexity of the rules governing revenue- generating projects;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that regional policy implementation is crucial for the success of the Europe 2020 strategy and the deepening of the single market; points out, in this connection, that EU structural funding should be allocated in a dynamic, forward-looking manner, i.e.notably so as to cushion further the possible adverse effects on the EU's regions of international trade agreements and to prepare EU regions forthem for what is ever more necessary and inevitable socioeconomic change; calls for a more user-friendly regional policy, but also for stricter rules against ‘fund-shopping’, by means of which some enterprises may misabuse the Union's financial instruments;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that regions situated on the internal borders of the single market are the first to experience the consequences of removing those borders; asks the Commission to take into account concerns regarding the ‘threshold effect’ between border regions that enjoy comparable degrees of development but receive significantly different levels of financial support under the Union's regional policy; calls for a debate on creating a fair intermediate category between the current ‘convergence’ and ‘regional competitiveness and employment’, objectiver other measures to offset those undesired effects;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Recalls the need to take account under the EU's integrated policies of the situation of regions with specific territorial characteristics, in order to enable those regions and their enterprises, workforce and citizens to be fully integrated into the EU's internal market and thus benefit in full from it;