Translation of "protection des intérêts des actionnaires minoritaires " (French → English) :

45. Believes that the CSR debate must not be separated from questions of corporate accountability, and that issues of the social and environmental impact of business, relations with stakeholders, the protection of minority shareholders' rights and the duties of company directors in this regard should be fully integrated in the Commission's Corporate Governance Action Plan; points out that these issues should form part of the debate on CSR; asks the Commission to take these particular points into consideration and to come forward wit ...[+++]h firm proposals to address them;

The main purpose of the directive is to protect the interests of minority shareholders, and, by means of harmonisation, to protect these interests when the takeover bid is of a cross-border nature.

Adequate protection of the interests of minority shareholders who oppose the transfer, of creditors and of holders of other rights should be proportionate.

Adequate protection of the interests of minority shareholders who oppose the transfer, of creditors and of holders of other rights should be proportionate.

The European Company has made it possible for companies with a European dimension to transfer the registered seat cross-border, to better reorganise and restructure and to choose between different board structures, while maintaining the rights of employees to involvement and protecting the interests of minority shareholders and third parties.

The objectives of the SE Regulation, according to its recitals, were to, inter alia, remove obstacles to the creation of groups of companies from different Member States, (.) allow companies with a European dimension to combine, plan and carry out the reorganisation of their business on a Community scale and to transfer their registered office to another Member State while ensuring adequate protection of the interests of minority shareholders and third parties, (.) to ensure as far as possible that the economic unit and the legal unit of business in the Community coincide, (. ...[+++]) permit the creation and management of companies with a European dimension, free from the obstacles arising from the disparity and the limited territorial application of national company law (.) and (.) to allow companies with a European dimension to adapt their organisational structure, and to choose a suitable system of corporate governance ensuring efficient management, proper supervision and the maintaining of the rights of employees to involvement[2].