The Oam Foundation opens up to new categories and inserts the principle of gender equality in the procedures for electing the Management Committee. These are the main amendments to the Statute of the Body approved by the Extraordinary Assembly of the Board of participants. Once the opinion of the Ministry of the Economy has been acquired and the Bank of Italy has been consulted, the article will have to obtain the go-ahead from the Prefecture.
According to changes made, the representative associations or federations, at national level, of the categories of subjects registered in the lists, registers or registers held by the Body itself, other than agents and mediators, may participate in the Organism. This new group of participants (group C) joins those representing banks, financial intermediaries, electronic money institutions and payment institutions (group A) and financial agents and brokers (group B). But there are some exceptions: for the amendments to the statute, group C will have 7% of the total votes in the Council of participants, and will not vote at election of the president and members of the Management Committee.
According to the changes approved by the Assembly, to ensure gender equality, the participants will have to include, in the lists of candidates - who will be selected by the online vote of those registered on the lists - at least 3 names out of 8 belonging to the less represented gender. If at the outcome of the votes by the participants both genders are not represented with at least one candidate elected, the candidate of the unrepresented gender, but who obtained more preferences at the outcome of the elections, will be repechaged. online voting.
Furthermore, in the formation of the lists, the participants undertake to favor a diversification of age, competence and experience.
