9 Amendments of Jessica STEGRUD related to 2021/0104(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) Sustainability issues, which arguably includes gender-related aspects, should be regulated by the law - and thus divided into legal and illegal activities. Beyond this division, which is regulated by legislative institutions on supranational and national levels, the market may introduce its own rules of conduct. Such rules of conduct should, however, not be decided politically but rather be negotiated by companies, consumers’ organisations etc.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1 b) Corporations, big and small, are controlled by their owners, a concept which demonstrably has generated wealth in the overwhelming majority of countries where it has been applied. Thus, the owners are and should be responsible for composing the managing board, which consequently is not a political issue. Whether so called quotas, considering attributes such as race, self-perceived gender or sexual preferences, should be applied to the composition of corporate boards should be decided by the owners, but by politicians.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1 c) Highlights the principle that equality policies should aim at achieving equality of opportunity rather than equality of results.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1 d) A gender distribution of 50:50 should not be an overarching priority in any context; policies should rather pave the way for entrepreneurship and progress in general, for the benefit of all.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 f (new)
Recital 1 f (new)
(1 f) Highlights the importance of entrepreneurship for a prosperous society, regardless of whether the entrepreneur is a man or a woman. Furthermore emphasizing that bureaucracy and red tape are inhibitory for successful entrepreneurship. In conclusion, the political process should aim at removing rather than introducing bureaucratic measures.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 g (new)
Recital 1 g (new)
(1 g) Noting that many highly educated women are working within the sectors of health care and education. Allowing and promoting entrepreneurship andprivate initiatives within these sectors would thus increase the absolute number of female entrepreneurs.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 h (new)
Recital 1 h (new)
(1 h) Recent studies on female entrepreneurship challenge the widespread perception that equal and developed societies automatically imply equality of outcome. Nordic countries, such as Sweden and Denmark, have a relatively high gender gap regarding entrepreneurial activity. While such observations should be interpreted with caution, they do emphasize the difficulty to achieve equality of result between women and men in a free society, and may indicate inherent differences between men and women on group level.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Article 20 of Directive 2013/34/EU requires undertakings with securities listed on regulated markets to include a corporate governance statement in their management report, which has to contain among other information a description of the diversity policy applied by the undertaking in relation to its administrative, management and supervisory bodies. Article 20 of Directive 2013/34/EU leaves flexibility to undertakings to decide what aspects of diversity they report on. It does not explicitly oblige undertakings to include information on any particular aspect of diversity. In order progress towards a more gender-balanced participation in economic decision-making, it is necessary to ensure that undertakings with securities listed on regulated markets always report on their gender diversity policies and the implementation thereof. However, tTo avoid unnecessary administrative burden, those undertakings should have the possibility to report some of the information required by Article 20 of Directive 2013/34/EU alongside other sustainability-related information.