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

It includes:

1.  EP: Hearings of Commissioner-designate Mairead McGuinness
2. EC: Members of the Platform on Sustainable Finance revealed
3. EBA: 2021 Working Programme
4. EC: Report on Common Shareholding in Europe
5. IFRS Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting
6. Article: Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead
7. Report: OECD – Sustainable and Resilient Finance
8. Webinar Recording: Disruption and Purpose – the role of business in society
9. ecoDa’s news

It includes:

1. EP: Corporate Governance topics discussed
2. . EC: Action Plan to boost the European Union’s Capital Markets Union
3. EC: A new Digital Finance Package
4. . ESMA: Proposals to help prevent and detect withholding tax reclaim schemes
5. EP: New subcommittee on tax matters
6. Germany: Finance Minister endorses country-by-country reporting of MNE tax information
7. ECGI Working Paper: Corporations, Directors’ Duties and Public/Private Divide
8. Papers: A Resilience Framework for Catastrophe Risks
9. Report: The annual Female FTSE Board Report
10. Report: Risks in 2021
11. . ecoDa’s news

 

It includes:

1. EP: Draft Report on Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability
2. 25th European Corporate Governance Conference: White paper tr
3. EBA: Calls on the EC to establish a single rulebook on fighting money laundering and terrorist financing
4. SMEunited: SME test should be reviewed
5. CEOs urging the European Commission to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets US: Investors group urges
6. SEC to reopen proxy rules comment period
7. Event: EBF High-level public dialogue: European Banking beyond the pandemic
8. Event: European Commission High-level conference on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
9. ecoDa’s News