At the same time, throughout the organisation, active work continues with ongoing targets and policies for the gender composition of the management team and reporting on gender equality issues. At present, all of the six members of the Supervisory Board are male, but this should be viewed in the context of Danish Agro operating within a male-dominated sector and it is generally difficult to attract female candidates for board posts and executive roles in the agribusiness sector. It is therefore very positive that among the 42 members of the new delegated assembly four women were elected. Danish Agro believes in a diverse Supervisory Board, and this also applies to the gender composition of the board. Diversity must be a priority, but it should not be prioritised at the expense of competences. Danish Agro’s Supervisory Board will continue working to increase diversity among its ranks, and the objective for the gender composition for Danish Agro’s Supervisory Board is that by no later than at the annual general meeting of 2022, the current distribution must be 17% for the under-represented gender (meaning at least one woman on the board). This figure has been increased from 15 percent in 2019, as the number of board members was reduced from nine to six with the introduction of the delegated assembly. The target was not reached in 2020 as no new people have joined the board. The above target only concerns the regionally elected and externally elected board members. The employee-elected board members are not part of this target. The composition of boards of subsidiaries is based on a group evaluation of how to best support the group’s strategy. Therefore, the boards of subsidiaries are often composed of members of the group management team of Danish Agro a.m.b.a and representatives from the ultimate owners. In addition, the boards also include representatives of external minority shareholders. Danish Agro has set the following targets (see the table on page 7) for the proportion of the under-represented gender on the Supervisory Boards of the group’s subsidiaries and this work is, among other things, inspired by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. A sub-goal under Goal 5 is gender
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