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"Mr President, Commissioner, this evening I, too, would like to speak in my own language so that the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can follow my comments. At the time, the legal package on small and medium-sized enterprises set three main targets for itself. The first was to help SMEs with greater revenues, by getting into European markets and by placing innovative products on the market. The second was to reduce costs by cutting red tape. An excellent example of this is the Services Directive. Our third target was to simplify and facilitate access to financing instruments for the SME sector.
Within the European Union, small and medium-sized enterprises produce one third of GDP. If we calculate in this way, the SME sector also contributes an amount of about one third to the European budget. In contrast, if we look at the proportion the SMEs represent in the European Union’s budget, we cannot be satisfied. We can see that by the end of 2010, about 100 000 SMEs received some form of bank guarantee within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), which is a huge number, but for 23 million enterprises, this is very little. This is likely to grow by 200 000 SMEs, but even then, this is little compared to 23 million. We have managed to mobilise venture capital of 1.3 billion, but again, if I compare this to the 23 million enterprises and their economic values, it is very, very little. We must succeed, Commissioner, in devising a procedural system within the European Union which, on the one hand, enables the use of instruments allocated at the EIB in a much easier and much more effective manner than at present. On the other hand, we must succeed in ensuring, through encouraging annual reports, that the Member States themselves support the small and medium-sized enterprise sector not only with words but with deeds.
We wish to ask you, Commissioner, through our request proposed on behalf of five political groups, through our letter in which we turned to you, not to neglect this entrepreneurial sphere, as this is the entrepreneurial sphere which is trying to survive having been put in the most difficult situation after the austerity packages. This is where an upsurge in growth can first be expected and this is where an increase in employment can be expected. We will provide our support for this in Parliament."@en1
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