8 Amendments of Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU related to 2011/2181(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of creating a more transparent, stable and reliable corporate sector able to take, with improved corporate governance and corporate social responsibility to ensure better functioning of companies and better relations with the broad range of external stakeholders, demonstrating its social and, ethical concerns into account in its practicesand environment concerns and responsibilities, not only towards employees and shareholders, but also towards society at large;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that corporate governance should, among other things, facilitate relations with employees, who contribute to, and are dependent on, their company’s success and performance, and is disappointed that this aspect was completely ignoris underestimated in the Green Paper;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that the effective regulation of corporate governance should be based on principles such as clarity, harmonization, transparency, enforcement and sanction, on effective functioning of the board of directors, on appropriate shareholders’ engagement and on efficient monitoring and enforcement of corporate governance codes;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for greater gender diversity in company boards, so as to have more diverse views, debates and challenges, talents and leadership styles for companies’ highest positions; regrets that there are still Member states where about half of the listed companies have no women on the board at all;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that members’ profiles, different leadership experiences, international, national or regional professional backgrounds contribute to enhancing the effective functionality of the board of directors;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Believes that it is important to ensure that all shareholders are treated equally and fairly, given that minority shareholder protection is very complicated in Europe, with minority shareholders finding it difficult to represent their interests in companies with dominant shareholders;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
– yearly disclosure of executive remuneration policies and schemes and of companies’ risk profiles; the board must be aware of the risks and undertake the responsibility for setting out a strategy to manage them in the best possible manner;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that companies which decide to depart from the corporate governance codes should be required to provide detailed explanations of such decisions and to describe the alternative solutions adopted, while national monitoring bodies should have more say on companies’ corporate governance statements.