Procedure
Improving access to finance for SMEs
Subjects: Banks and credit · Financial services, financial reporting and auditing · Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), craft industries · Financial management of undertakings, business loans, accounting
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): DE BACKER Philippe (ALDE)
Summary
An own-initiative report on improving access to finance for SMEs. The amendments revise recitals on SMEs' role in employment and the EU economy, the impact of the financial and economic crisis and stricter regulation, bank lending and credit conditions across Member States, the Small Business Act and the 'Think Small First' principle, and the role of banks, the ECB and the social economy.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled16 Oct 2012 – 10 Jul 2019
- Procedure completed
264
Amendments
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44
Members
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5
Committees
16 Oct 2012 – 10 Jul 2019
Dates
Official amendment documents
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Members who amended this procedure
44 Members · by amendment count1
Herbert DORFMANN
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇮🇹 Italy
20(20 solo)
2Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇬🇷 Greece
19(19 solo)
3Jürgen KLUTE
The Left (GUE/NGL) · 🇩🇪 Germany
16(16 solo)
4Philippe LAMBERTS
Greens / EFA · 🇧🇪 Belgium
15(15 solo)
5Diogo FEIO
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇹 Portugal
10(10 solo)
6Rachida DATI
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇫🇷 France
9(9 solo)
7Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇱 Poland
7(7 solo)
8Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇭🇺 Hungary
7
9András GYÜRK
Patriots for Europe · 🇭🇺 Hungary
7
10Francesco Enrico SPERONI
EFD · 🇮🇹 Italy
7(7 solo)
11Syed KAMALL
European Conservatives & Reformists · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
6(6 solo)
12Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇱 Poland
6(6 solo)
13Sylvana RAPTI
Socialists & Democrats · 🇬🇷 Greece
6(6 solo)
14Emma McCLARKIN
European Conservatives & Reformists · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
6(6 solo)
15Michael THEURER
ALDE · 🇩🇪 Germany
6(6 solo)
16Raffaele BALDASSARRE
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇮🇹 Italy
6(6 solo)
17Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS
ALDE · 🇪🇸 Spain
5(5 solo)
18Inês Cristina ZUBER
The Left (GUE/NGL) · 🇵🇹 Portugal
5(5 solo)
19Phil BENNION
Renew Europe · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5(5 solo)
20António Fernando CORREIA DE CAMPOS
Socialists & Democrats · 🇫🇷 France
5(5 solo)
21Jean-Jacob BICEP
Greens / EFA · 🇫🇷 France
5(5 solo)
22Anni PODIMATA
Socialists & Democrats · 🇬🇷 Greece
4(4 solo)
23Konstantinos POUPAKIS
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇬🇷 Greece
4(4 solo)
24Franz OBERMAYR
ENF · 🇦🇹 Austria
4(4 solo)
25Petru Constantin LUHAN
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇷🇴 Romania
4(4 solo)
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