Family Business

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Adopted on 17/09/2015
Reference
INT/765-EESC-2015-00722-00-00-AC-TRA
Opinion Type
Own-initiative
Official Journal
OJ C 13, 15.1.2016, p. 8
Rapporteur
Mr Klimek
Employers - GR I
Poland
Plenary session number
510
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Key points

The EESC calls for:

  • an active strategy promoting best practices on family businesses among Member States to be implemented;
  • preparation of a legal framework on family businesses, which would include a commonly acceptable definition of a family business;
  • a family business category to be included in European statistics and national data on family business to be gathered in an effective way;
  • better regulation on the transfer of family businesses from one generation to the next;
  • the family organisational climate and innovation among family firms to be promoted;
  • education to be developed and research promoted in the area of family entrepreneurship;
  • family farms to be supported and cooperative-based entrepreneurship redeveloped;
  • tax deductions to be introduced on reinvested profits, and opportunities for family businesses to increase their capital without granting voting rights;
  • active cooperation at EU level with organisations representing family businesses.

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