Publications
Don’t clip EU Inc.’s wings before it takes off
Business strongly welcomes the European Commission's proposal for an EU Inc. as a landmark initiative to make Europe a more attractive place to start, scale and invest in businesses. BusinessEurope Di...
Proposed regulation on EU Inc. (28th regime) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Introduction
BusinessEurope welcomes the EU Inc. proposal (28th regime on company law) as an optional instrument to facilitate entrepreneurs and companies to incorporate, scale up, and operate across...
Shareholders’ Rights Directive (SRD) Review: public consultation – a BusinessEurope position paper
Introduction
BusinessEurope wishes to provide input on the Commission’s consultation on the review of the Shareholders Rights Directive (SRD), which is a central component of the EU’s corporate g...
Proposal for a Regulation on EU Business Wallets (EBWs) – a BusinessEurope position paper
Introduction
BusinessEurope strongly supports the European Commission’s proposal Regulation for the establishment of EU Business Wallets (EBWs) and considers this as an opportunity to facilitate bu...
28th Regime proposal: A positive development for competitiveness across the Single Market
Today, the Commission has presented its 28th Regime proposal for an optional but unified set of company law rules across the Single Market. Commenting on the publication, BusinessEurope Director Gener...
Company law
Priorities for EU corporate governance & EU company law – a BusinessEurope position paper
Introduction
European companies are committed to playing their role in society by producing quality goods and services at competitive prices, creating productive and fulfilling jobs, contributing to...
Company law
Legal certainty for European companies (SEs) during COVID-19 crisis
Temporary rules protect SEs and SCEs from unhelpful litigation
Today, due to the COVID-19-crisis, European companies aka Societas Europaea (SE) and European cooperative societies (SCE) have received...
Accounting harmonisation
Company law
Digital door finally open for EU companies
- EU Company Law Package took last hurdle -
Today, the European Parliament agreed on the EU Company Law Package which grants EU businesses access to digital tools and processes in company law, such a...
Company law
The EU company law package – a BusinessEurope position paper
Main messages
BUSINESSEUROPE welcomes the EU Company Law Package which aims to facilitate companies’ use of digital technologies, whether in the creation of a new company or in updating busines...
Company law
Open the digital door and bring EU company law into 21st century
Today, the European Commission published its EU Company law upgraded Package which aims to facilitate companies’ use of digital technologies, specifically focusing on digital tools which allow c...
Company law
EU company law upgraded – Reply to the European Commission consultation
Background
The Commission work programme for 2017 announced an initiative on company law to facilitate the use of digital technologies throughout a company’s lifecycle and cross-border mergers and...
Company law
Towards an effective EU insolvency framework
Key messages
BUSINESSEUROPE is generally supportive of a second chance approach to insolvency in the EU which is why it welcomed the 2014 Commission recommendation on business failure and insolvenc...