RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures

17.11.2022 - (10521/1/2022 – C9‑0354/2022 – 2012/0299(COD)) - ***II

Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
(Joint committee procedure – Rule 58 of the Rules of Procedure)
Rapporteurs: Lara Wolters, Evelyn Regner

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures

(10521/1/2022 – C9‑0354/2022 – 2012/0299(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the Council position at first reading (10521/1/2022 – C9-0354/2022),

– having regard to its position at first reading[1] on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2012)0614)),

– having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committees responsible under Rule 74(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the joint deliberations of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality under Rule 58 of the Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (A9-0275/2022),

1. Approves the Council position at first reading;

2. Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;

3. Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

4. Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

5. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

 

PROCEDURE – COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

Title	Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges
References	10521/1/2022 – C9-0354/2022 – 2012/0299(COD)
Date of Parliament’s first reading – P number	20.11.2013 T7-0488/2013
Draft act considered at first reading	COM(2012)0614 - C7-0382/2012
Receipt of Council position at first reading announced in plenary	20.10.2022
Committees responsible  Date announced in plenary	JURI 20.10.2022	FEMM 20.10.2022
Rapporteurs  Date appointed	Lara Wolters 2.3.2022	Evelyn Regner 2.3.2022
Previous rapporteurs	Evelyn Regner, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou
Rule 58 – Joint committee procedure  Date announced in plenary	17.1.2013
Discussed in committee	15.3.2022	25.4.2022	10.5.2022	2.6.2022
	14.6.2022	16.6.2022
Date adopted	17.11.2022
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	42 5 2
Members present for the final vote	Isabella Adinolfi, Robert Biedroń, Annika Bruna, Ilana Cicurel, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Geoffroy Didier, Pascal Durand, Frances Fitzgerald, Lívia Járóka, Arba Kokalari, Alice Kuhnke, Gilles Lebreton, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Radka Maxová, Karen Melchior, Johan Nissinen, Carina Ohlsson, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Samira Rafaela, Evelyn Regner, Diana Riba i Giner, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Raffaele Stancanelli, Marie Toussaint, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Marion Walsmann, Lara Wolters, Javier Zarzalejos
Substitutes present for the final vote	Alessandra Basso, Caterina Chinnici, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Lena Düpont, Nicolaus Fest, Cindy Franssen, Heidi Hautala, Marina Kaljurand, Elena Kountoura, Antonius Manders, Predrag Fred Matić, Alessandra Moretti, Emil Radev, René Repasi, Yana Toom
Substitutes under Rule 209(7) present for the final vote	Pablo Arias Echeverría, Martin Hojsík, Alicia Homs Ginel, Dennis Radtke, Antonio Maria Rinaldi
Date tabled	17.11.2022

 

 

FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

42	+
ECR	Raffaele Stancanelli
ID	Annika Bruna, Gilles Lebreton
PPE	Isabella Adinolfi, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Geoffroy Didier, Lena Düpont, Frances Fitzgerald, Cindy Franssen, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Antonius Manders, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Emil Radev, Dennis Radtke, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Marion Walsmann, Javier Zarzalejos
RENEW	Ilana Cicurel, Pascal Durand, Martin Hojsík, Karen Melchior, Samira Rafaela, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Yana Toom
S&D	Robert Biedroń, Caterina Chinnici, Alicia Homs Ginel, Marina Kaljurand, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Predrag Fred Matić, Radka Maxová, Alessandra Moretti, Carina Ohlsson, Evelyn Regner, René Repasi, Lara Wolters
THE LEFT	Elena Kountoura
VERTS/ALE	Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Heidi Hautala, Alice Kuhnke, Diana Riba i Giner, Marie Toussaint

 

5	-
ECR	Johan Nissinen, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
ID	Nicolaus Fest
NI	Lívia Járóka
PPE	Arba Kokalari

 

2	0
ID	Alessandra Basso, Antonio Maria Rinaldi

 

Key to symbols:

+ : in favour

- : against

0 : abstention

 

 

• [1] OJ C 436, 24.11.2016. p 225.