Annual General Meetings Trends for board governance in the Benelux

The most well-known event in the communication between boards of directors and shareholders of listed companies is the annual ritual Annual General Meetings (AGM).

This whitepaper by Diligent provides an overview of trends in the Benelux – and how to deal with them. In The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, the differences in governance can be significant. Boards in the Netherlands for example typically have a two-tier governance model, with an executive board responsible for strategy and daily operations and a supervisory board overseeing these activities. In Belgium and Luxembourg, the one-tier board, with executives and supervisory directors seated in the same board, is the preferred model.

In this whitepaper, we examine three significant current AGM trends that are relevant to boards of the Benelux.