Reviews and submissions
On 27 February 2024, the ASX Corporate Governance Council released the following consultation materials for a proposed fifth edition of the Corporate Governance Council Principles and Recommendations:
- a communique
- Consultation Draft for a proposed fifth edition of the Principles and Recommendations
- Background paper and consultation questions
- an online submissions process (discussed below)
- a mark-up of the Consultation Draft, against the 4th edition of the Principles and Recommendations, for reference.
The Council is seeking submissions by 6 May 2024.
Submissions may be made online, as an online questionnaire response or by uploading a PDF or Word document. The Background Paper and consultation questions includes further information, together with commentary for the individual consultation questions appearing in the online questionnaire.
On 27 February 2019, the ASX Corporate Goverance Council issued:
- a communique
- the fourth edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations
- a document entitled Consultation Response
- a marked up version of the fourth edition showing the changes made to the consultation version, and
- a marked up version of the fourth edition showing the changes made to the third edition.
A copy of the presentation slides for ASX's roadshow in May 2019 on the final changes in the fourth edition can be viewed here. A live webcast of that presentation can be viewed here from 9am on Thursday 9th May 2019.
This followed a public consultation process that began on 2 May 2018, when the ASX Corporate Governance Council released for public comment:
- a communique
- a consultation paper entitled Review of the ASX Corporate Governance Council's Principles and Recommendations
- a consultation draft of a proposed fourth edition of the Principles and Recommendations
- a mark-up of the consultation draft against the third edition of the Principles and Recommendations
A copy of the presentation slides for ASX’s roadshow in June 2018 on the proposed changes in the consultation version of the fourth edition can be viewed here.
The consultation period closed on 27 July 2018. Council received 100 submissions (8 on a confidential basis). The non-confidential submissions were received from:
On 27 March 2014, the ASX Corporate Governance Council issued:
- a communique
- the third edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations
- a document entitled Consultation Response
- a marked-up version of the third edition showing the changes made to the consultation version, and
- translation tables showing the linkages between the new recommendations in the third edition and the former recommendations in the second edition, and vice versa.
This followed a public consultation process that began on 16 August 2013, when the ASX Corporate Governance Council released for public comment:
- a communique
- a consultation paper entitled Review of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations
- a draft of the proposed third edition of the Principles and Recommendations
- a copy of the second edition of the Principles and Recommendations for comparison, and
- translation tables showing the linkages between the proposed new recommendations in the third edition and the existing recommendations in the second edition, and vice versa.
The consultation period closed on 15 November 2013. Council received 69 submissions (5 on a confidential basis). The non-confidential submissions were received from:
