1. Swedish law entitles employees even in small companies (at least 25 employees) to elect representatives to the board of directors, see Lone L. Hansen & Erik Werlauff, Employee Representation on the Board of Directors of a Company with its Registered Office in a Nordic Country, 6 European Community Law 68, 71 (2009).
2. Presidency Swedish , Work programme for the Swedish Presidency of the EU. 1 July - 31 December 2009, at 32, available at http://www.se2009.eu/polopoly_fs/L6248!menu/standard/file/Work%20Programme%20for%20the%20Swedish%20Presidency%201%20July%20-%2031%20Dec%202009.pdf.
3. 9658/09, supra note 41, at 3.
4. Second Council Directive 77/91 of 13 December 1976 on the coordination of safeguards, 1977 O.J. (L 26) 1 (EEC).
5. Id. at 4.