# How best to harness the job creation potential of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)?

European Parliament procedure 2015/2320(INI) (INI - Own-initiative procedure, 8th term, committee BUDG / EMPL / REGI). Stage: Procedure completed. 456 committee amendments tabled by 74 Members between 2016-04-05 and 2016-05-13.

## What the amendments focus on

The dossier concerns how best to harness the job-creation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The amendments stress investment in research, innovation, training and skills, support for young people, women and female entrepreneurs, and access to finance, raising regional disparities in SME funding from national promotional banks and EU programmes and calling for a correction mechanism, with references to the EFSI SME Window, cooperatives and social-economy enterprises.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siôn SIMON | United Kingdom | S&D | 63 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124948.md |
| Emilian PAVEL | Romania | S&D | 62 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/129256.md |
| Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU | Romania | S&D | 62 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96847.md |
| Richard HOWITT | United Kingdom | S&D | 52 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/2073.md |
| Jutta STEINRUCK | Germany | S&D | 44 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96831.md |
| Flavio ZANONATO | Italy | S&D | 34 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124800.md |
| Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI | Poland | ECR | 31 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124891.md |
| Laura AGEA | Italy | EFDD | 31 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124811.md |
| Tiziana BEGHIN | Italy | NI | 31 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124777.md |
| Elena GENTILE | Italy | S&D | 30 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124847.md |
| Tatjana ŽDANOKA | Latvia | NI | 26 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28619.md |
| Deirdre CLUNE | Ireland | PPE | 25 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124988.md |
| Martina DLABAJOVÁ | Czechia | RE | 24 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124709.md |
| Marian HARKIN | Ireland | ALDE | 24 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/28116.md |
| Amjad BASHIR | United Kingdom | ECR | 24 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124956.md |

## Official source documents

- PE578.835: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/REGI-AM-578835_EN.pdf
- PE582.164: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/EMPL-AM-582164_EN.pdf
- PE582.198: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/BUDG-AM-582198_EN.pdf

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2015-2320-INI · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2015-2320-INI.json

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