A controversial plan drawn up in Brussels to force all publicly traded companies to have 40 per cent of women on their boards has been scrapped after lawyers ruled that mandatory gender caps were illegal under the bloc’s treaties.
Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner, yesterday dropped the proposal, after championing a scheme to oblige companies to abide by a Europe-wide quota for women on corporate boards by 2020 or face sanctions and fines.
The proposal had faced stiff opposition from within the 26-member European Commission, but the lawyers’ finding avoided a potentially divisive vote, which would have been the first in the eight-year tenure of José Manuel Barroso, the commission president.
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