Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-10-Speech-2-319"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have approved this report, which lists, in the form of desires that will no doubt remain unfulfilled for a while, the ways and means of making life easier for small businesses in the European Union.
However, I have some comments to make.
The admittedly discreet call for a kind of positive discrimination in favour of SMEs, I quote, ‘owned by under-represented ethnic minorities’ is pointless, incomprehensible and completely ideological.
Access by SMEs and, in particular, local SMEs, to public procurement contracts, which the rapporteur intends to promote further, was hindered by the texts adopted 15 years ago by this very House, despite the warnings that they would have adverse effects. These texts effectively promoted access to public procurement contracts by large companies, particularly foreign ones, that had the information and the administrative and legal resources to bid for these contracts, while local SMEs did not have those resources.
It is an extraordinarily complex business for SMEs to access existing national and European aid, due to the requirements of European legislation itself.
In short, one once again gets the impression that we are having to adopt European texts to deal with the foreseeable problems produced by other European texts."@en1
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