A person representing public interest in the supervisory board of a company serving public interest whose membership results from public office should only receive remuneration covering costs related to his/her membership in the supervisory board. Person that is in the supervisory board on due to his/her professional skills should receive remuneration according to the nature of his/her managerial post and in relation to the nature of amount of time (part-time, full-time) spent on performing his/her duties in the supervisory board.
If a person representing public interest which is in the supervisory board thanks to his/her function of an elected representative or a public officer received only remuneration covering the necessary costs related to the exercise of the function in the supervisory board, it would not be possible via their remunerations to siphon off funds from those enterprises.
Sources:
- OECD: Zásady OECD ohledně správy státem vlastněných společností, 2005, II.F.5.
- Czech Government Anti-corruption Conception for years 2015 - 2017, Chapter 2.1.2., p. 6
- Transparency International Czech Republic, Conflict of interest – Czech Republic [online], p. 5
- Fadrný, M., Bouda, P., Czech Republic, the country of gravy trains, Frank Bold, 2014, section 5.2., p. 25 and point 1, p. 26
- Business corporations controlled by the state and municipalities: Do they need stricter rules, Environmental Law Services and Centre for Applied Economy of the Institute of Economic Studies (Charles University in Prague),5 November 2011, chap. 4
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 14: Supervisory boards of companies serving public interest, December 2013
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