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Green Paper on EU Corporate Governance

Corporate governance is traditionally defined as the system by which companies are directed and controlled and as a set of relationships between a company’s management, its board, its shareholders and its other stakeholders.

The corporate governance framework for listed companies in the European Union is a combination of legislation and ‘soft law’, including recommendations and corporate governance codes.  While corporate governance codes are adopted at national level, Directive 2006/46/EC promotes their application by requiring that listed companies refer in their corporate governance statement to a code and that they report on their application of that code on a ‘comply or explain’ basis.

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