ecoDa – Eu Alert 20

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS DEVELOPMENTS

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Update
European Green Bond Standard: new measures to reduce greenwashing
Ban on products made with forces labour: EP recommendations

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

More shareholders rejecting companies’ executive pay program

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

France: BNP Paribas’ general assembly disturbed by NGOs (Les Echos)
France: Total takes further climate commitments as a result of investors’ pressures (Les Echos)

WEBINAR

EC: Capital Markets Union: investing for a stronger, prosperous and sustainable European Union

ecoDa News

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ecoDa – EU Alert 19

It Includes:

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS DEVELOPMENTS


Provisional agreement on the Digital Operational Resilience Act
Corporate taxation: Commission proposed tax incentive for equity
New rules on cybersecurity

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS


Climate change: Blackrock steps back (CNBC)
NACD: Comments to the SEC proposed rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure

EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENTS


ecoDa: Reactions to ATAD III

WEBINAR


SABS Standards Board public meeting

ecoDa News


  • 16th of May: Béatrice Richez-Baum, ecoDa’s DG, speaking at the Legal Committee of the French Institute of Directors;
  • 20th of May: Béatrice Richez-Baum, ecoDa’s DG, speaking at a conference organized by PUBLIKA, the internal think tank of the SKEMA Business School in partnership with the ONUDI;
  • SAVE THE DATE23rd of May (11.00 to 12.00 CET): ecoDa and EY will organize a webinar on How can a focus on governance can help reimagine corporate integrity?“;
  • SAVE THE DATE14th of June (6.00 to 8.00pm CET in Brussels): ecoDa and Chapter Zero Brussels invite you to a discussion between policy makers and European board members to discuss the EU Green Deal; You can already express your interest to attend at policy@ecoda.eu;
  • REMINDER- SAVE THE DATE: 13-14 July: GNDI Global Conference. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the GNDI, which ecoDa is part of, the network will be host a 24-hour virtual event, where Abigail Levrau (Chair of ecoDa’s Corporate Governance Dialogue Advisory Committee), Michael Hilb (ecoDa Board Member) and Béatrice Richez-Baum (ecoDa’s DG) will intervene;
  • ecoDa is delighted to welcome a new member institute, the Financial Experts Association e.V. (FEA), which represents German and international non-executive directors in supervisory and advisory boards.

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