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Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001Show full title
Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE)
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Article A1.In this Regulation— “ the 2004 Regulations ” means the...
Article AA1.(1.) On IP completion day every SE which remains registered...
Article AAA1.(1.) The UK Societas retains the legal personality it had...
Article 1.(1) A company may be set up within the territory...
Article 2.(1) Public limited-liability companies such as referred to in Annex...
Article 3.(1) For the purposes of Article 2(1), (2) and (3),...
Article 5.Subject to Article 4(2), the capital of a UK Societas,...
Article 6.For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘the statutes of the...
Article 7.The registered office of an SE shall be located within...
Article 8.(1) The registered office of an SE may be transferred...
Article 10.Subject to this Regulation, a UK Societas shall be treated...
Article 11.(1) The name of a UK Societas shall be preceded...
Article 12.(1) Every SE shall be registered in the Member State...
Article 13.Publication of the documents and particulars concerning a UK Societas...
Article 14.(1) Notice of an SE's registration and of the deletion...
Article 18.For matters not covered by this section or, where a...
Article 20.(1) The management or administrative organs of merging companies shall...
Article 21.For each of the merging companies and subject to the...
Article 22.As an alternative to experts operating on behalf of each...
Article 23.(1) The general meeting of each of the merging companies...
Article 24.(1) The law of the Member State governing each merging...
Article 25.(1) The legality of a merger shall be scrutinised, as...
Article 26.(1) The legality of a merger shall be scrutinised, as...
Article 27.(1) A merger and the simultaneous formation of an SE...
Article 28.For each of the merging companies the completion of the...
Article 29.(1) A merger carried out as laid down in Article...
Article 30.A merger as provided for in Article 2(1) may not...
Article 31.(1) Where a merger within the meaning of Article 17(2)(a)...
Section 5 Conversion of an existing public limited-liability company into an SE
TITLE III STRUCTURE OF the UK Societas
Article 38.Under the conditions laid down by this Regulation a UK...
Section 3 Rules common to the one-tier and two-tier systems
Article 46.(1) Members of company organs shall be appointed for a...
Article 47.(1) A UK Societas's statutes may permit a company or...
Article 48.(1) An UK Societas's statutes shall list the categories of...
Article 49.The members of a UK Societas's organs shall be under...
Article 50.(1) Unless otherwise provided by this Regulation or the statutes,...
Article 51.Members of a UK Societas's management, supervisory and administrative organs...
Article 52.The general meeting shall decide on matters for which it...
Article 53.Without prejudice to the rules laid down in this section,...
Article 54.(1) Subject to regulation 68 of the 2004 Regulations a...
Article 55.(1) One or more shareholders who together hold at least...
Article 56.One or more shareholders who together hold at least 10...
Article 57.Save where this Regulation or, failing that, the law applicable...
Article 58.The votes cast shall not include votes attaching to shares...
Article 59.(1) Subject to regulation 59 of the 2004 Regulations amendment...
Article 60.(1) Where a UK Societas has two or more classes...
TITLE V WINDING UP, LIQUIDATION, INSOLVENCY AND CESSATION OF PAYMENTS
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