2004 Amendments to the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Governance Issues
Introduction
In 2002 the OECD undertook to survey developments in OECD countries since the adoption of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance in 1999. A draft revision of the Principles was published in 2003 for public comment and the final version was recently completed. Given the amount of legislation, rule making and change in corporate governance best practice that has been taking place in OECD countries since 1999, it is remarkable how little revision the 1999 version of the principles required. Few provisions were deleted and much of what has been added is elaboration of existing ...