ecoDa Upcoming Webinars

10 October 2022: Corporate Governance: A booster for innovation?

Promoting a more standardised and global approach of governance practices is it the right to support innovation in European companies? How companies can have a different development path if regulators and investors are overly focusing on enforcing hard regulations and standard practices?
This webinar will be moderated by Michael Hilb.
The panel will be composed of Chris Hodge, Gatis Kokins, Annalisa Gigante and Abigail Levrau.
Please register to confirm your participation via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u0IA8yehSr2tvR2moTAqow

27 October 2022: Corporate reporting: Internal control 2.0 as the way forward? In cooperation with PwC

The subject of internal control is becoming more predominant in current debates, whether it concerns reflection on corporate reporting, ESRS standards or audit reform debates at national level like in the UK and in the Netherlands. What is meant by internal control? What is the role of internal control for ESG? What lessons from Sarbanes Oxley?
This webinar will be moderated by Rogier Wezenbeek.
The panel will be composed of Rachel Bowden, Maurizio Donvito, Stephen Licence and Anne-Hélène Monsellato.

Please register to confirm your participation via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GdVGPzupRp2oaB_6IzYdgg


ecoDa – EU Alerts 32

It Includes:

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS DEVELOPMENTS

  • Council: Compromise proposal on the CSDD by the Presidency
  • EESC: Opinion on the CSDD Commission proposal

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

  • BlackRock: 2022 voting spotlight
  • Japan: Regulator published ESG code of conduct (Minerva Analytics)

EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENTS

  • Responses to EFRAG consultation on the first set of draft ESR
  • Accountancy Europe
  • ESMA

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

  • France: Legal inventory of extra-financial instruments adopted by large companies
  • UK: Further improvement needed under new climate rules
  • Luxembourg: Study on non-executive directors and the concept of independence

ARTICLE

EU corporate due diligence proposal: game changer or paper tiger? (European Jacques Delors)

The EU Alert is available for download here.