[EM] minority shareholders -public consultation from the European Commission

[Peter Zbornik]

Dear all,

The European Commission issued a public consultation on Corporate
governance: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2011/corporate-governance-framework_en.htm
A public consultation means that the commission will consider the
answers to the questions by the public.
The answers will be published on the web of the Commission.

One of the questions (no. 21 - see
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/company/docs/modern/com2011-164_en.pdf)
concerns the representation of minority shareholders: "Do you think
that minority shareholders need additional rights to represent their
interests effectively in companies with controlling or dominant
shareholders?"

There are some other interesting questions in the document too, like
no. 17: "What would be the best way for the EU to facilitate
shareholder cooperation?"

I am sending this to you in case anyone of you are interested in
lobbying for proportional representation of shareholders on the board
etc.

Contributions should be sent to the following address to reach the
Commission by 22 July 2011 at the latest:
markt-complaw at ec.europa.eu. It is enough to answer only one of the
questions in the contribution

Maybe someone on this list would be interested, personally I do not
consider myself expert enough.

Best regards
Peter Zbornik