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In its annual evaluation of the AGM season, Eumedion noted that
major shareholders are increasingly represented on supervisory
boards. As part of this, they often enter into relationship
agreements with the company, a development Eumedion is not opposed
to as long as supervisory directors act in the best interest of the
company and all its stakeholders.
Proposals to rotate audit firms were also on the agenda of many
AGMs in 2015. According to Eumedion, companies often provide no
information about the identity of the ultimate lead partner.
Eumedion further noted the ineffectiveness of new claw back
legislation which requires companies, in the case of a public offer
or other significant corporate action, to deduct from a
director's remuneration any increase in the value of shares or
options forming part the director's pay. In the report,
Eumedion called for a cancellation of this provision or a
tightening of the rules when the new claw back law is evaluated in
2016.
Click here for the full text of the evaluation report.
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