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Bonjour à toutes et à tous, l’ESMA vient de publier la réponse à sa consultation sur l’intégration des risques et des facteurs de durabilité (ici).

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the responses received to its Consultations on integrating sustainability risks and factors in MiFID II, and in the UCITS Directive/AIFMD.

Pour accéder aux documents de réponse :

• Consultation on integrating sustainability risks and factors in MiFID II
• Consultation on integrating sustainability risks and factors in the UCITS Directive and AIFMD

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Le Financial Reporting Council (FRC) a annoncé à la mi-février 2017 qu’il souhaitait faire évoluer le code de gouvernance des entreprises britanniques. Aussi, le FRC va-t-il procéder à une revue de son code pour obtenir des commentaires.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today announced plans for a fundamental review of the UK Corporate Governance Code. This will take account of work done by the FRC on corporate culture and succession planning, and the issues raised in the Government’s Green Paper and the BEIS Select Committee inquiry. The review will build on the Codes globally recognised strengths developed over the past 25 years while considering the appropriate balance between its principles and provisions and the growing demands on the corporate governance framework.

Les objectifs annoncés sont :

This will consider the appropriate balance between the Code’s principles and provisions.  In pursuing any changes, the current strengths of UK governance: the unitary board, strong shareholder rights, the role of stewardship and the ‘comply or explain’ approach, must be preserved. We must not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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Ivan Tchotourian

En Grande-Bretagne, The Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS) Committee vient de lancer une consultation publique sur la gouvernance d’entreprise : « Corporate Governance inquiry launched ».

The Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS) Committee has today launched an inquiry on corporate governance, focussing on executive pay, directors duties, and the composition of boardrooms, including worker representation and gender balance in executive positions.

Les questions abordées sont très intéressantes :

Directors Duties

• Is company law sufficiently clear on the roles of directors and non-executive directors, and are those duties the right ones? If not, how should it be amended?
• Is the duty to promote the long-term success of the company clear and enforceable?
• How are the interests of shareholders, current and former employees best balanced?
• How best should the decisions of Boards be scrutinised and open to challenge?
• Should there be greater alignment between the rules governing public and private companies? What would be the consequences of this?
• Should additional duties be placed on companies to promote greater transparency, e.g. around the roles of advisors. If so, what should be published and why? What would the impact of this be on business behaviour and costs to business?
• How effectively have the provisions of the 1992 Cadbury report been embedded? How best can shareholders have confidence that Executives are subject to independent challenge?
• Should Government regulate or rely on guidance and professional bodies to ensure that Directors fulfil their duties effectively?

Executive pay

• What factors have influenced the steep rise in executive pay over the past 30 years relative to salaries of more junior employees?
• How should executive pay take account of companies’ long-term performance?
• Should executive pay reflect the value added by executives to companies relative to more junior employees? If so, how?
• What evidence is there that executive pay is too high? How, if at all, should Government seek to influence or control executive pay?
• Do recent high-profile shareholder actions demonstrate that the current framework for controlling executive pay is bedding in effectively? Should shareholders have a greater role?

Composition of Boards

• What evidence is there that more diverse company boards perform better?
• How should greater diversity of board membership be achieved? What should diversity include, e.g. gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, disability, experience, socio-economic background?
• Should there be worker representation on boards and/or remuneration committees? If so, what form should this take?
• What more should be done to increase the number of women in Executive positions on boards?

Attention : la réponse est à envoyer pour le 26 octobre 2016 !

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Ivan Tchotourian

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, The Takeover Panel britannique a lancé une consultation jusqu’au 15 avril 2016intitulé : « The communication and distribution of information during an offer » (PCP 2016/1).

In this Public Consultation Paper (« PCP »), the Code Committee of the Panel (the « Code Committee ») is proposing a number of amendments to the Takeover Code (the « Code ») with regard to the communication and distribution of information and opinions during an offer by, or on behalf of, an offeror or the offeree company.

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Ivan Tchotourian

Le gouvernement britannique vient de lancer une consultation jusqu’au 16 mars 2016 sur la transparence dans le domaine de l’écart de rémunération entre les sexes : « Open consultation – Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting » (12 février 2016).

The government is seeking views on draft regulations that will increase transparency around the differences in pay between men and women.

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Ivan Tchotourian

Le Dutch Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee a annoncé récemment qu’il publiera le 11 février 2016 une consultation proposant une réforme au « Dutch Corporate Governance Code ».

Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici.

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Ivan Tchotourian