GENDEROVÁ VYVÁŽENOST V EVROPSKÝCH SPOLEČNOSTECH SKRZE KVÓTY – NUTNOST NEBO „ABSURDITA”

• Authors: Roman Říčka

Title variants

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Gender balance within European companies through the quotas – necessity or “absurdity”

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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It’s a long-term aim of the European Union to achieve equality between women and men. Several directives have been adopted in this field and now the European Commission (EC) came with proposal for a directive on improving the gender balance among nonexecutive directors of the stock exchange listed companies. The article provides a brief overview of the relationship between EU and protection of human rights focusing on a ban of discrimination. With regards to this issue the Union’s law, ECJ’s case-law as well as political declarations is discussed. Attention is consequently focused on the Proposal that prescribes that the under-represented sex should occupy 40% of the non-executive director positions in the specified companies by the end of the year 2017 (2019). The article analyzes and questions the EC’s argumentation in favour of the directive, pointing out some contradictions of the commission’s statements. While examining the crucial provisions the author in particular considers whether the “Act” meets the principle of subsidiarity and proportionality as a basic requirement of EU’s law. In light of this theme it is stressed that “the Proposal” is about to interfere with some rights guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – among others the right to respect for private and family life and the right to the protection of personal data. Finally the author aims to answer the question whether the Proposal represents just another of Union’s political proclamations of its democracy or if it answers the real need for redress of sexual discrimination in the European Union.

Keywords

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SEX-BASED DISCRIMINATION; CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS; EUROPEAN UNION; GENDER BALANCE; INTERNAL MARKET

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 97
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 154 – 175

Contributors

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Roman Říčka

• Právnická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Katedra mezinárodního a evropského práva, Brno, Czech Republic