Welcome to the Monitoring Committee website
A new Dutch Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee has been installed on 2 july 2009 by the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Economic Affairs. The Monitoring Committee's official terms of reference are to help ensure that the Dutch Corporate Governance Code is practicable and up to date and to monitor compliance by Dutch listed companies and institutional investors.
On 10 December 2008 the first Monitoring Committee published its final monitoring report and the revised corporate governance code.
You can download the revised Code and press release here.
Monitoring Report 2011
The Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee presented on 9 December 2011 its third report on compliance with the Dutch Corporate Governance Code to Maxime Verhagen, Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.
The Monitoring Committee reports about compliance in general with regard to a number of specific provisions. Furthermore the Committee carried out a number of specific surveys in 2011. The subjects of these surveys were:
· the application of the best practice provisions on management board appointments and severance pay for management board members appointed since the Code entered into force on 1 January 2004;
· the quality of the explanation given for non-application;
· the voting and communication behaviour of foreign institutional investors in Dutch listed companies;
· the composition of the supervisory board and the evaluation of its functioning and the report of the supervisory board.
Monitoring Report 2010
The Corporate Governance Code Monitoring Committee presented on 14 December 2010 its second report on compliance with the new Dutch Corporate Governance Code to the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Safety and Justice.The Monitoring Committee reports about compliance in general with regard to a number of specific provisions. Furthermore the Committee carried out a survey in 2010 into compliance on two parts of the Code. The first subject is the responsibility of shareholders. The second is the composition of the supervisory board and the evaluation of its functioning
You can download the report and press release here.
