Three Innovations in Corporate Law in the Netherlands: on Directors’ Employment Contracts, Limits to Non-Executive Directorships and Gender-Balanced Boards - European Company Law View Three Innovations in Corporate Law in the Netherlands: on Directors’ Employment Contracts, Limits to Non-Executive Directorships and Gender-Balanced Boards by Cees de Groot - European Company Law Three Innovations in Corporate Law in the Netherlands: on Directors’ Employment Contracts, Limits to Non-Executive Directorships and Gender-Balanced Boards Cees de Groot 10 4/5

As of 1 January 2013 in the Netherlands the relationship between a director of a public listed company and that company cannot be an employment contract, the number of non-executive board memberships that one person may hold is limited, and boards are expected to have a balanced division between women and men.

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