The Corporate Governance Committee has published a number of recommendations that all listed companies are encouraged to relate to and report on according to the follow-or-explain principle. The Companies must therefore follow the recommendations or explain why they do not.
The main topics that the company must address are:
Danish Ship Finance reports annually on compliance with the recommendations. Reports from the last five years can be found below:
2017 (in Danish)
2016 (in Danish)
In addition to the recommendations of the Corporate Governance Committee and the applicable legislation, the Banking Council has drawn up a management code with recommendations for member companies. The purpose is to get banks, etc. to deal actively with the number of key management issues and to achieve greater transparency about the framework for the management of individual companies.
The management code must be applied according to the follow-or-explain principle.
Danish Ship Finance reports annually on compliance with the code.
Statement of the compliance with Finance Denmark code of management (in Danish)
Active Owners Denmark has prepared a set of guidelines for responsible ownership and corporate governance, in addition to the other guidelines. They relate to the company level and the capital fund level. The guidelines are available on the Active Owners Denmark's website.
Equity funds and equity fund-owned companies must adhere to the guidelines according to the comply-or-explain principle. The guidelines also aim to increase the general level of information so that the general public has better opportunity to gain insight into the work of the mutual funds.
Compliance with Active Owners Denmark's guidelines (in Danish)
One of the recommendations of the Danish Financial Council is that a code of conduct is drawn up and published with a description of the company´s values and desired behavior for the company´s operations and management.
Danish Ship Finance follows the recommendation and has prepared the following code (in Danish)
Danish Ship Finance has defined a remuneration report.
REMUNERATION REPORT
Danish Ship Finance has defined a remuneration policy the purpose of which is to determine the guidelines for Danish Ship Finance’s remuneration of:
The aim of the remuneration policy is to ensure that the company’s remuneration of management and employees whose activities have a material impact on the company’s risk profile does not lead to excessively risk-tolerant behaviour. In addition, the remuneration policy reflects the fact that the interests of the shareholders and the company have been realigned with the company’s circumstances, and it seeks to create a balance between the assignments and the responsibility undertaken.
REMUNERATION POLICIES
2018 (in Danish)
2017 (in Danish)