European Parliament
A6-0229/2006
Donata Gottardi (PSE ). –
(IT)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too should like to acknowledge a number of salient points in the report. Among them, the explicit recognition of a European social model, notwithstanding the various national approaches to company law; and the connection between company law and corporate governance, on the one hand, and social policy, including by means of corporate social responsibility, on the other.
The European Parliament is making the relationship with stakeholders a priority, thus rooting companies’ social responsibility in processes of corporate governance and is therefore taking advantage of the most genuine opportunity in this regard.
I would also mention the explicit recognition of the need for directors to have a relationship of dependency and for transparency with regard to remuneration as well, together with the guaranteed rights of workers and their representatives to participate in company decision-making.
I would reaffirm the need to provide for the possibility of coordinating with the financial markets, so as to take due account of developments in the real economy, and I hope that these suggestions will be adequately and correctly implemented in national law as soon as possible.

