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Activities of Ashley FOX related to 2012/0299(COD)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures
2016/11/22
Committee: ECON
Dossiers: 2012/0299(COD)
Documents: PDF(304 KB) DOC(374 KB)

Amendments (5)

Amendment 188 #
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.
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 193 #
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 199 #
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 233 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Criminal sanctions may not be applied in pursuit of this Directive
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. This Directive shall not enter into force until all of the following conditions have been met: (a) one third or more of the members of the European Commission; (b) one third or more of the members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank; and (c) one third or more of the Directors General of the European Commission; are members of the under-represented sex.
2013/05/13
Committee: ECON