Traduction de «publicly-held company » (Anglais → Français) :

5. Member States need not apply the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 1 where shares in a public limited liability company held by another company were acquired before the relationship between the two companies corresponded to the criteria laid down in paragraph 1.

5. Member States need not apply the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 1 where shares in a public limited liability company held by another company were acquired before the relationship between the two companies corresponded to the criteria laid down in paragraph 1.

However, where the public limited liability company holds a majority of the voting rights indirectly or can exercise a dominant influence indirectly, Member States need not apply the first and the second subparagraphs if they provide for the suspension of the voting rights attached to the shares in the public limited liability company held by the other company.

Company boards in the EU are characterised by persistent gender imbalances, as evidenced by the fact that only 13.7% of corporate seats in the largest listed companies are currently held by women (15% among non-executive directors).[1] Compared to other areas of society, especially to the public sector[2], the under-representation of women on the boards of publicly listed companies is particularly significant.

However, given the presence of legitimate expectations until the publication date of the initiating Decision, the Commission exceptionally waives recovery for any tax benefits deriving from the application of the aid scheme for aid linked to shareholdings held directly or indirectly by a Spanish acquiring company in a foreign company before the date of publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the Commission Decision to initiate the formal investigation procedure under Article 88(2), except where, firstly, before 21 December 2007 an irrevocable obligation has been entered into by a Spanish acquiring company to hold suc ...[+++]h rights; secondly, the contract contained a suspensive condition linked to the fact that the operation at stake is subject to the mandatory approval of a regulatory authority and, thirdly, the operation had been notified before 21 December 2007.

Where a company becomes a single-member company because all its shares have come to be held by a single person, that fact, together with the identity of the single member, must either be entered in a register kept by the company and accessible to the public or be recorded in the file or entered in the central register or the register of companies.