When new legislation is introduced, how we do business changes. Sometimes the changes are slight and barely noticeable. Other times they can affect everything from the ground up. One such change was recently adopted by the EU – the so-called Women on Boards Directive aims to ensure that at least 40% of non-executive board seats or 33% of all board seats for companies with more than 250 employees and annual turnover of more than 50 million euros are occupied by the “under represented sex” by the end of June 2026. We live in a time when we simply have to be in the legislation loop, so European Commissions’s exploration of gender equality and discrimination at large is the perfect place to be if you want to be prepared for obligations that are not probable but inevitable.
The host of the conversation will be Andrea Čović Vidović (Deputy Head and Head of Press and Media, European Commission in Croatia), who will discuss these critical issues together with Marina Burazer (Marketing Director, Fortenova grupa) and Kristijan Kevešević (Deputy Ombudsman for Gender Equality) and explore European Commission’s strategic, legal and financial framework aimed at gender mainstreaming, a better work-life balance, promoting women in decision-making and closing gender gaps on the labour market.