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10 Amendments of Wolf KLINZ related to 2012/0299(COD)

Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall enstablish binding measures that ensure that the listed companies in whose boards members of the under-represented sex hold less than 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions make the appointments to those positions on the basiset a target figure for the proportion of the under-represented gender in boards. The individual company shall thus specifically set a target which is realistic and ambitious for the company itself. The listed companies are also required to have a policy for increasing the proportion of the under-represented gender at the management levels of athe comparative analysis of the qualifications of each candidate, by applying pre-establnies in general. This means that the individual company must establish the optimum recruitment basis in the light of its specific needs and ideas. Lishted, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria, in order to attain the said percenompanies must report on the status of fulfilment of the target set out in the annual report, including, if so, why the companies failed to achieve the targe at the latest by 1 Jt set. Moreover, companies must present the policy in the annuary 2020 or at the latest by 1 January 2018 in case of listed companies which are public undertakings.l report, how the policy is implemented and what has been achieved. If the companies fail to do so, they may be fined. These requirements do not apply to representatives of the employees
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The number of non-executive director positions necessary to meet the objective laid down in paragraph 1 shall be the number closest to the proportion of 40 per cent, but not exceeding 49 per cent.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. In order to attain the objective laid down in paragraph 1, Member States shall ensure that, in the selection of non- executive directors, priority shall be given to the candidate of the under-represented sex if that candidate is equally qualified as a candidate of the other sex in terms of suitability, competence and professional performance, unless an objective assessment taking account of all criteria specific to the individual candidates tilts the balance in favour of the candidate of the other sex.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that listed companies are obliged to disclose, on the request of an unsuccessful candidate, the qualification criteria upon which the selection was based, the objective comparative assessment of those criteria and, where relevant, the considerations tilting the balance in favour of a candidate of the other sex.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 192 #
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 that 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.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 6
6. Member States may provide that listed companies where the members of the under-represented sex represent less than 10 per cent of the workforce are not subject to the objective laid down in paragraph 1.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 7
7. Member States may provide that the objective laid down in paragraph 1 is met where listed companies can show that members of the under-represented sex hold at least one third of all director positions, irrespective of whether they are executive or non-executive.deleted
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Without prejudice to Article 4(6) and (7), Member States which before the entry into force of this Directive have already taken measures to ensure a more balanced representation of women and men among the non-executive directors of listed companies may suspend the application of the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1), (3), (4) and (5), provided that it can be shown that those measures enable members of the under-represented sex to hold at least 40 per cent of the non- executive director positions of listed companies by at the latest 1 January 2020, or at the latest 1 January 2018 for listed companies whichmay suspend the application of this Directive provided that those measures are binding, and that the listed companies are obliged to report to the Member State on the status of fulfilment of the target on a re public undertakinggular basis.
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States having suspended pursuant to Article 8(3) the application of the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1), (3), (4) and (5 and Article 5(1) shall include information in the reports mentioned in paragraph 1 demonstrating the concrete results obtained by the national measures referred to in Article 8(3). The Commission shall then issue a specific report ascertaining whether those measures effectively enable members of the under-represented sex to hold at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions by 1 January 2018 for listed companies which are public undertakings, and by 1 January 2020 for listed companies which are not public undertakingsof listed companies by 1 January 2020. The first such report shall be issued by the Commission by 1 July 2017, and subsequent reports shall be issued within six months after notification of the respective national reports under paragraph 1.
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Member States in question shall ensure that listed companies, which by applying the national measures referred to in Article 8(3) have not appointed or elected members of the under-represented sex for at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions of their boards by 1 January 2018, where they are public undertakings, or by 1 January 2020, where they are not public undertakings,20 apply the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1), (3), (4) and (5 and Article 5(1) with effect respectively from thoseat dates.
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON