| 30% Club | The 30% Club is a group of company Chairmen voluntarily committed to bringing more women onto United Kingdom corporate boards.
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| ABI | The Association of British Insurers represents over 300 general insurance, investment and long-term savings companies in the United Kingdom.
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| CBI | The Confederation of British Industry is a lobbying organisation representing United Kingdom businesses nationally and internationally.
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| EHRC | The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a on-departmental public body responsible for promoting and enforcing equality and non-discrimination laws in the United Kingdom.
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| ELA | The Employment Lawyers Association represents over 5,900 employment lawyers in the United Kingdom.
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| ETUC | European Trade Union Confederation.
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| European Semester | The European Semester is an annual cycle of macro-economic, budgetary and Semester structural policy coordination designed to help all EU Member States achieve the goals outlined in the Europe 2020 strategy.
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| FTSE | FTSE is a British provider of stock market indices and associated data services. The FTSE 100 is a share index of the stocks of the 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation. The FTSE 250 refers to the companies listed 101-350 with the highest market capitalisation.
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| GC100 | The GC100 group brings together the senior legal officers of more than 85 FTSE 100 companies to discuss policy issues affecting United Kingdom listed companies.
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| ILM | The Institute of Leadership & Management is an awarding body for leadership and management qualifications in the United Kingdom.
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| IMA | The Investment Management Association is a trade association of over 200 investment management companies in the United Kingdom.
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| MEDEF | The Mouvement des Entreprises de France is the largest union of employers in France.
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| NAPF | The National Association of Pension Funds is a membership organisation for a wide range of over 400 providers of essential advice and services to the pensions sector.
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| NAWO | The National Alliance of Women's Organisations represents over 100 organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom concerned with making equality between women and men a reality.
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| NEST | The National Employment Savings Trust is a workplace defined contribution pension scheme that all employers can use for their United Kingdom based workers.
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| NHO | The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 20,000 members.
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| Stewardship Code | The Stewardship Code is a set of principles or guidelines directed at institutional investors who hold voting rights in United Kingdom companies. Its principal aim is to make institutional investors, who manage other people's money, be active and engage in corporate governance in the interests of their beneficiaries (the shareholders).
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| Subsidiarity | Under the principle of subsidiarity, the EU can take legislative action only where action could not be achieved satisfactorily at Member State level, or the objectives could be better achieved at a European level.
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| TEU | The Treaty on European Union
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| TFEU | The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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| TUC | The Trades Unions Congress represents the majority of trade unions in the United Kingdom and focuses on equality in the workplace amongst other issues.
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| UNESCO | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has gender equality as one of its priorities.
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