TABLE 1 Continued
Country origin
legal system
Year of
last code
Issuer of last code Last code
Czech Republic 2004 Czech Securities Commission Corporate governance code
Germany 2003 Government Commission German
Corporate Governance Code
The Cromme Code
Korea 1999 Committee on corporate governance Code of best practice for corporate
governance
Japan 2004 Tokyo Stock Exchange Principles of corporate governance for
listed companies
Taiwan 2002 Taiwan Stock Exchange Taiwan corporate governance best-practice
principles
Switzerland 2002 Swiss business federation Swiss code of best practice for corporate
governance
Hungary 2002 Budapest Stock Exchange Corporate governance recommendations
Lithuania 2003 Lithuania stock exchange The corporate governance code
Poland 2004 The Best Practices Committee of the
Warsaw Stock Exchange in association
with the Corporate Governance Forum
Best practices in public companies
Slovakia 2002 Bratislava Stock Exchange Corporate governance code
Slovenia 2005 Ljubljana Stock Exchange, Managers’
Association of Slovenia, Association of
the Supervisory Board Members of
Slovenia
Corporate governance code
Scandinavian
Denmark 2003 Copenhagen Stock Exchange Committee
on Corporate Governance
Report on Corporate governance in
Denmark
Finland 2003 HEX Plc, Central Chamber of Commerce
of Finland Confederation of Finnish
Industry and Employers
Corporate governance recommendation
for listed companies
Sweden 2004 The codes group Swedish code of corporate governance.
Report of the code group
Norway 2005 Norwegian Corporate governance Board The Norwegian Code of Practice for
Corporate Governance