4 Amendments of Nuno TEIXEIRA related to 2012/2042(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the European Council to preserve the cohesion policy budget for the next programming period, as the Structural and Cohesion Funds are among the EU’s most effective instruments for creating growth and jobs, increasing competitiveness of the European economy and supporting SMEs;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points to the necessary complementarity between the Horizon 2020 programme and the role of cohesion policy in relation to promoting the competitiveness of SMEs and their contribution to the smart growth objective;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for better coordination and synergy between different European, national and regional polices and financing instruments directly addressing SMEs; points out that existing initiatives and financial instruments for SME support should be more coherent, and should complement each other; stresses the need to reduce fragmentation, and to consolidate financial support schemes for SMEs, in order to ensure greater pooling and coordination of resources at European, regional and national levels; calls for dialogue with the European Investment Bank Group and the European Investment Fund to be stepped up in order to explore the possibility of helping to improve access to financing for micro- enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly in the European Union's outermost regions, where geographical and structural constraints and the strong impact of the economic crisis are seriously hampering competitiveness and efforts to promote employment; further highlights the importance, in these regions, of providing support for joint actions undertaken by training centres and enterprises to develop entrepreneurship;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that the objective of financing for SMEs through the ERDF is to boost competitiveness in all regions of the European Union so as to achieve economic, social and territorial development in line with the cohesion policy's objectives; notes, however, that in the case of the outermost regions, owing to their economic and social situation, financing should also be guaranteed for all enterprises located in such an outermost region, even if they are not categorised as an SME;