The proportion of supervisory board members of each sex may not be less than 40%, at the end of the next general meeting called to vote on appointments, in companies which, for the third consecutive financial year, employ an average number of at least two hundred and fifty permanent employees and have net sales or a balance sheet total of at least 50 million euros. In these same companies, where the supervisory board has no more than eight members, the difference between the number of members of each sex may not exceed two.
Any appointment made in breach of the first paragraph and which does not have the effect of remedying the irregularity in the composition of the board is null and void.
.