Activities of Vicky FORD related to 2013/2176(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on how can the European Union contribute to creating a hospitable environment for enterprises, businesses and start-ups to create jobs?
Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A
Paragraph A
A. Underlines the need for greater integration of Union policies in favour of SMEthe 'think small first' principle to better inform Union policies as regards innovation, growth, internationalisation, productivity, reducing bureaucracy, the quality of human resources, and social responsibility;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph G a (new)
Paragraph G a (new)
Ga. Calls on the Commission to transparently and properly conduct SME tests when developing legislation and to urgently propose lighter regimes and exemptions across a wider range of legislative proposals in order to significantly reduce SME's costs;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph G b (new)
Paragraph G b (new)
Gb. Believes actions should be taken to simplify and reduce the burdens of each of the Top 10 most burdensome regulations for SMEs.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph G c (new)
Paragraph G c (new)
Gc. Recommends that low-risk companies are not required to keep written health and safety risk assessments.
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph G d (new)
Paragraph G d (new)
Gd. Welcomes the reduction of REACH registration fees for SMEs, even though fees represent a fraction of the overall compliance costs; is extremely concerned however that initial cost estimates from REACH were underestimated with this difference already amounting to over EUR1 billion which will continue to rise; believes therefore that further implementation of REACH should be halted until a full review and associated legislative amendments have occurred.
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph H – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph H – subparagraph 1 (new)
Emphasises the need to avoid placing disproportionate regulatory burdens on SMEs; believes the Commission must do more to fulfil its 2011 commitment to propose lighter regulatory regimes for SMEs.
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph H a (new)
Paragraph H a (new)
Ha. Believes micro-businesses should benefit from automatic exemptions and only be included in regulations that benefit them.
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph H b (new)
Paragraph H b (new)
Hb. Recognises that the Working Time Directive has proved to be overly inflexible with regards to on-call time and compensatory rest periods.
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph H c (new)
Paragraph H c (new)
Hc. Believes that the Commission's recent Regulatory Fitness (REFIT) Communication should be the start of a more ambitious drive to build a more competitive EU by reducing the cost of regulation for business through the simplifying initiatives, fitness checks and withdrawals and repeals of legislation;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph H d (new)
Paragraph H d (new)
Hd. Believes therefore that the Working Time Directive should be repealed for micro-enterprises, SMEs and on-call health workers.