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"Mr President, I think that Mrs Montfort's very comprehensive report has added considerable strength to the Commission's original document. I am a constructive critic of some of Mr Liikanen's efforts – I think the first document that we saw was not really as focused as it should have been. Mrs Montfort has brought some valuable focus on the key issues facing small and medium-sized businesses. I particularly want to mention the innovation in the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, which held a hearing on the issues raised in Mrs Montfort's report. The more we get people from small and medium-sized businesses across Parliament's threshold talking to us about issues, the better we shall be able to do our job. This is something that the Committee on Industry needs to do on a regular basis from now on.
In my closing remarks in this debate I should like to come back to this question of focus. The problem in small and medium-sized businesses is that they do not have a lot of resources to go out and get information, to find out what grants and help are available, to do the sort of administrative tasks that are increasingly being imposed upon them by national governments. What we need to consider is the way we make information available to them. What I want the Commissioner to address above all in the range of measures that we have proposed here is making access to support and information easy and quick so that people running these businesses will be able to use the information effectively. We know that there is a lot of help available across the European Union. People are always talking about helping SMEs, as Mr Caudron who is a veteran of this process has reminded us, but we know there are many businesses not taking advantage of the help available. A focused, effective, directed and simple set of measures is what we need if this programme is really going to have the effect that it should have."@en1
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