Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-24-Speech-1-108-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-10-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Small Business Act, crisis and SMEs (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111024.15.1-108-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Michael Theurer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Freie Demokratische Partei (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ITRE (2011-07-04--2012-01-18)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2012-01-26)3 member; REGI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2012-01-17)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, President Barroso has already highlighted the significance of small and medium-sized enterprises: 99% of all enterprises in Europe employ fewer than 250 people. Small and medium-sized enterprises are thus the backbone of employment and training. With the Small Business Act, the European Union began an initiative to improve national and European legislation for small and medium-sized enterprises. It was in this context that the test of the impact of legislation on small and medium-sized enterprises was introduced. Now, however, a study by the European Parliament has shown significant variation in the way that this SME test is being implemented in the individual Member States, and that in some cases, it is being implemented badly. Only five Member States have made this SME text a binding requirement. Fourteen Member States apply it half-heartedly, irregularly and with varying quality, while eight Member States practically do not carry out the test at all. That is why we in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe have tabled this question and are calling for the Commission to start an initiative to make this impact assessment a genuinely binding requirement in the Member States. We want the costs of administration and red tape to be quantified, in order to work towards reducing these. Small and medium-sized enterprises need to be saved from national and European legislation that burdens them with more and more additional costs for bureaucracy and administration. We are in favour of implementation being made very flexible, so that the Member States have room to manoeuvre. However, the aim must be for the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises to be taken into consideration as part of an integrated approach to law making. We also want the Commission to set an example by being the driving force behind this SME-friendly implementation of legislation. We in the European Union should take the lead in making laws that are genuinely capable of being implemented by small and medium-sized enterprises in practice."@en1
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