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- 1. Member States shall ensure that listed companies which do…
- 2. As regards the selection of candidates for appointment or…
- 3. Member States shall ensure that, at the request of a candi…
- 4. Member States shall take the necessary measures, in accord…
- 5. Where the process for selecting candidates for appointment…
4.Member States shall take the necessary measures, in accordance with their national judicial systems, to ensure that where an unsuccessful candidate of the underrepresented sex establishes facts, before a court or other competent authority, from which it may be presumed that that candidate was as equally qualified as the candidate of the other sex who was selected for appointment or election to a director position, it is for the listed company to prove that there has been no breach of Article 6(2).This paragraph shall not prevent Member States from introducing rules of evidence which are more favourable to plaintiffs.
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