Compliance, Ethics & Sustainability Voorheen tijdschrift voor Compliance 2011 nr. 4/5

Necessity knows no Financial Markets Supervision Act. Publication of price sensitive information and directors liability

mr. W.W. de Nijs Bik*

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Part of the Houthoff Buruma National Compliance Debate 2011, by mr. W.W. de Nijs Bik* In the aftermath of the crisis, it is natural to want to point fingers at those who caused the almost total meltdown of the financial system. Banks, regulators, directors, politicians – all bear some responsibility. The threshold for directors’ personal liability is very high. As it stands (currently), if there is not a sufficient degree of serious fault then directors are not held to be personally liable.1 The Netherlands Supreme Court2 formulated this high threshold explicitly to avoid ‘defensive’ behaviour. Thus, the Supreme Court wants entrepreneurs to take entrepreneurial risks. Introduction Without taking any risks there would not have been major financial institutions in the Netherlands that created thousands of jobs and made significant contributions to the treasury. Are entrepreneurs, when they are enterprising, also allowed to break the rules? Is that part and parcel of ‘being an entrepreneur’ or is the threshold just as high for non-enterprising mortals? The specific question that I want to raise is this: if one or more directors fail to share price-sensitive information with the market in a timely manner, does this lead to mismanagement or even personal liability of directors? Another question: how much knowledge of the obligation to publish price-sensitive information can you actually expect from the Board?

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