It Includes:

1. EP: Businesses’ interests must align with society’s interests, MEPs
2. EP: MEP’s blueprint for SMEs in post-COVID recovery
3. ESMA: Response to the IFRS Foundation’s consultation on sustainability reporting
4. EC: Commissioned Study on EU equity markets
5. The EC’s consultation on Sustainable CG: Comments from the European Company Law Experts Group
6. Due diligence: NGOs initiative pleading for a European legislation
7. Study: The 2020 Virtual Shareholder Meetings in the EU
8. The Council for Inclusive Capitalism launches a partnership with the Vatican
9. Report: Making the most of Europe’s climate leadership
10. Briefing: Why Covid did not change firms (Korn Ferry)
11. Report: A reexamination is needed of how traditional audit procedures approach the risk of fraud (EY)
12. ecoDa’s News

It includes:

1. EP: Welcomed the OECD for a presentation on Sustainable Corporate Governance and Corporate Due Diligence
2. EU: Amendments to rules to make capital markets work for Europe’s recovery
3. ESMA: Underlined paradoxes of sustainability reporting
4. US: ISS and Glass Lexis Release Updated Proxy Voting Guidelines
5. ICGN: Review its Global Governance Principles
6. ECGI Past Webinar on “Stakeholder Capitalism: The Case For and Against”
7. Working Paper: The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique (ECGI)
8. . There is no need for EU Regulation on Corporate Governance, said SMEunited
9. ecoDa’s News

It includes:

1. EC: Consultation on the Impact Assessment on the Enrivonmental Crime Directive
2. Council: Approved conclusions regarding human rights and decent work in global supply chains 
3. EC: 2021 Work Programme
4. Council: recommendations regarding the EC’s new action plan on the Capital Markets Union
5. EP:Wirecard Case Scrutinised
6. UK: New Research supports introduction of standards for Audit Committees, FRC says
7. UK: to review dual-class shares as part of consultation on listings
8. Switzerland: the referendum failed to hold corporations liable for violations abroad
9. Working Paper: The Future of the Corporations and the Economics (ECGI)
10. Reflection Paper by CSR Europe: For a Coherent and Integrated EU Approach to Due Diligence 
11. ecoDa’s News

It includes:

• EC: Consultation on criteria defining environmentally sustainable activities
• EC: FISMA commissioned a study on the Audit Directive and Regulation
• EP: EU consumers will soon be able to defend their rights collectively
• Implications of the Wirecard case
• UK: Covid-19 strenghtens the need for audit improvement, FRC urges
• UK: Reporting on the new Corporate Governance Code is a mixed picture 
• Switzerland: Upcoming Referendum on corporate sustainability
• Germany: ‘historic’ mandatory boardroom quota for women
• France: Danone: Purpose driven companies cannot let aside shareholders’ interests
• France: A new initiative to promote gender diveristy in boardrooms 
• The IIRS and the SASB merge into the Value Reporting Foundation  
• ecoDa’s News

 

It includes:

1. EP: Update on the Sustainable Corporate Governance and on the Liability of companies for environmental damage files
2. EFRAG: Preparatory work for the elaboration of possible EU non-financial reporting standards
3. EFRAG: Changes to governance and financing
4. Essay: Sustainable Corporate Governance: The Role of the Law (ECGI)
5. Report: For a European Law of Compliance (Le Club des Juristes)
6. Report: Third TCFD Status Report shows progress
7. ECMI: Europe’s Capital Markets puzzle
8. Event: Policy Workshop on Sustainability Reporting – IFRS Consultation (ECGI and IEF) (Registration HERE)
9. Event: 2020 European Risk Management Awards Week (FERMA) (Registration HERE)
10. Summary Report: Corporate Governance for sustainable and competitive European companies (ecoDa, BusinessEurope and EuropeanIssuers)
11. ecoDa’s News

It includes

1.  ECGI : Webinars on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance
2. Capital Market Union is progressing too slowly 
3. EP: Green Deal 
4. EC: New Consumer Agenda
5. ESMA: Corporate Governance: Back on the agenda 
6. Report: New data show insufficient progress in companies’ climate and environmental disclosures (Alliance for Corporate Transparency)
7. News: Refinitiv acquires The Red Flag Group, significantly expanding its suite of due diligence offerings
8. Event:  The European Business and Nature Summit
9. Event Recording: ICGN Global Virtual Summit 2020
10. ecoDa’s News

 

It includes

1. ESMA: Identified deficiencies in German supervision of Wirecard’s financial reporting

2. ESMA: Consultation to specify obligations on environmentally sustainable activities

3. EBA: Discussion on ESG risks management and supervision

4. Council of the EU: Collective Redress for consumers

5. GNDI: Actual concerns of national institutes of directors worldwide

6. Paper: Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund ESG Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governancen (ECGI)

7. Article: Covid-19 is rewriting the rules of Corporate Governance (Harvard Business Review)

8.  Workshop: on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance (ECGI) 

9. ecoDa’s News

It Includes

1. EP and EC: Sustainable Corporate Governance
2. EP: Due Diligence and Corporate Accountability – Updates and Studies
3. EP: Liability of companies for environmental damages – Updates and Studies
4. Call for action: From Shareholders Primacy to Stakeholder Capitalism: a Policy Agenda for Systems Change (B Lab and The Shareholders Commons
5. Paper: Shareholder Value in a Burning World (Project Syndicate)
6. Policy Paper European Green Transparency: Lessons from France and Further Room Improvement (Institut Jacques Delors)
7. Publication: The 2020 European AGM Season (Morrow Sodali)
8. Paper: Four ways boards can oversee risk management beyond Covid-19 (EY) 
9. Global Survey: EY Board Barometer Survey  
10. ecoDa’s News

It includes,

1.  EP: Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability and Sustainable Corporate Governance
2. EU Ministers: Women on boards
3. EC Sustainable CG: Response from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
4. EP: MEPS quizzed EU financial authorities on the Wirecard case
5. Paper: What should corporations do? (Project Syndicate)
6. Report: The Swedish Corporate Governance Board
7. Event: Corporate Governance for sustainable and competitive European companies
8. Event: Guberna Directors’ Day
9. ecoDa’s News

It included:

1. EP and EC: Topics related to Corporate Governance discussed this week at the Plenary
2. EC : Responses to the EC Impact Assessment on sustainable CG
3. OECD : Developing sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies
4. Paper: Slow progress on gender diversity in boardroom (Minerva Analytics)
5. Paper: FRC revamps UK Stewardship Code with new report obligation (Minerva Analytics)
6. Survey: IFA/ Governance at the time of the Covid-19 crisis
7. Report: CGLytics DAX Report
8. Event: Global Responsibility of Global Enterprises
9. MEPs – Blackrock case
10. ecoDa’s news