In the short term, it can also provide an opportunity to achieve, through the renewal of the bodies, a lowering of the average age and duration of terms of the members. In calibrating the regulation, account was taken of the request by small banks for graduality in reaching the target quota, given the greater gap these banks must bridge.
Further non-binding guidance is aimed at increasing the efficacy of the role that, in practice, the less-represented gender can play on boards. The new provisions also act on other, no less important, fronts.