Translation of "risque inhérent à l'entreprise " (French → English) :

23. Contends that while risk is often an inherent part of business activity, it is important for boards of directors to clearly define their company’s risk policy and ensure proper and independent oversight of risk management processes;

8. Stresses that a well-governed company should be accountable and transparent to its employees, its shareholders and other stakeholders; reaffirms that directors of financial institutions have to take account of their institution’s, as well as of consumers’ and employees’, long-term interests when taking decisions, in order to minimise risks; this can be accomplished by a legislative requirement for every regulated financial institution in the European Union to describe its business model in its annual report with an explanation of the board’s risk appetite and its understanding of the risk inherent ...[+++] in delivery of the business model; the report should further include a description of the steps the board has taken to ensure that these risks are overseen and managed, and of how remuneration policy is aligned to the delivery of the business model and the management by executives of the risk involved;

Qualitative measures available to the competent authorities include requiring the credit institutions and investment firms to reduce the risk inherent in their activities, products or systems, including by introducing changes to their structures of remuneration or freezing the variable parts of remuneration to the extent that they are inconsistent with effective risk management.

B. whereas in the future, too, firms need to be able to manage the risks inherent to their business in a targeted fashion, under their own responsibility and at comprehensible prices, and whereas, taking into account the specificities of small and medium enterprises with regard to bilateral derivatives, firms should be responsible for risk,

B. whereas in the future, too, firms need to be able to manage the risks inherent to their business in a targeted fashion, under their own responsibility and at comprehensible prices, and whereas, taking into account the specificities of small and medium enterprises with regard to bilateral derivatives, firms should be responsible for risk,

15. Calls for greater attention to be paid to the problems connected to the financing of start-ups; calls, in particular, for special arrangements for equity holdings for firms starting up and the introduction of an SME component for holdings in small and medium-sized enterprises already established; recommends that Member States and federations of business organisations use national, regional, or sector-based aid programmes, including such programmes under the venture capital action plan, to reduce the normally high degree of risk associated with ban ...[+++]k loans to and holdings in SMEs which are starting up, so as to ensure that banks do not have to accept unreasonable risks compared with the capital adequacy rules;