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2 Amendments of Phil BENNION related to 2012/0299(COD)

Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that listed companies in whose boards members of the under-represented sex hold less than 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions mtake themeasures designed to assist such companies in making appointments to those positions on the basis of a comparative analysis of the qualifications of each candidate, by applying pre- established, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria, in order towith the objective of attaining the said percentage at the latest by 1 January 2020 or at the latest by 1 January 2018 in case of listed companies which are public undertakings.
2013/05/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall take the necessary measures, in accordance with their national judicial systems, to ensure thatrequire that listed companies are able to demonstrate that their appointment process has been carried out in compliance with the rule laid down in paragraph 3, particularly in cases where an unsuccessful candidate of the under- represented sex establishes facts from which it may be presumed that that candidate was equally qualified as the appointed candidate of the other sex, it shall be for the listed company to prove that there has been no breach of the rule laid down in paragraph 3.
2013/05/17
Committee: EMPL