Text tabled : A7-0364/2010

  Gianluca Susta (S&D). – (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, any initiative that aims to promote our real economy at a time of serious crisis like the present must be thoroughly welcomed, especially when its goal is to make our businesses more competitive on the global market.

I am grateful to the rapporteur, Mr Jadot, and to the other shadow rapporteurs for having delivered a report that singles out support for investment and makes it more transparent without increasing the already substantial number of administrative requirements imposed on SMEs.

I hope that this agreement that we are adopting today, and which was concluded within the OECD, will be signed by other countries that are trade partners of ours in order to guarantee a genuinely level playing field for operators and to ensure that Europe does not suffer competitive disadvantages in a sector that accounts for 10% of world trade and which is therefore crucial to the overall growth of the European Union.