European Company Law

News

- Final Report of the High Level Groupt on European Company Law
- Draft of a 13 th Directive on takeover bids (21th June 1999) : refused by the European Parliament on 4th July 2001. FAQ of the European Commission
- Regulation 2157/2001 CE creating a new European Company (officially named by its latin name "Societas Europeae", or SE)
- Directive 2001/86/CE ont the employees involvement in the SE

Documents

Studies and Reports :

- Comparison on employees involvement (French)
- Report on European tax competition (French) (Html, 1870Ko )
- Proposition of the European Commission for the simplification and the modernisation of the advertising of certain kind of companies
- Report on employees involvement (French) (Html, 700Ko)
- Report of the High Level Experts on takeover bids (PDF, 253Ko)
- Position of the European Commission on the European Company
- Comparative study on the Corporate Governance Codes in the member States of the European Union (annexes I, II, III - IV - V)
- Davignon Report on the European systems on employees involvement
- The EIEG : an instrument for international coorperation : pratical guide for the SMEs

Dissertations :

Legal texts

- List if existing European Company Law Instruments
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Regulation 2137/85 CE on the institution of the EIEG
- 12th directive 89/667/CE : Limited liability company with one partner
- 11th directive 89/666/CEE : Advertising of subsidies created in a member State in a foreign company form.
- 8th directive 84/253/CEE : The agreement on person in charge of the legal control of the accountancy documents.
- 7th directive 83/349/CEE : The consolidated accounts, Preamble of the Directive
- 6th directive 82/891/CEE : The split of public company
- 4th directive 78/660/CEE : The annual accounts of certain forms of companies
- 3th directive 78/855/CEE : The merger of public companies. Preamble of the directive.
- 2th directive 77/91/CEE : Coordination of the guarantees of the creditors
- First directive 68/151/CEE : Coordination of the guarantees of the creditors. Preamble of the directive.

Links

- Website of the European Union on company law
- Research Centre in Business Law (CREDA) (French)
- Feature of the French Chamber of Commerce on the European Company
- Centre of information on European Union Law (French)
- European Legislation on Company Law



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