Amendment of the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004

17.  For regulation 10(1) substitute—

“Registration of an SE on the transfer of its registered office to the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 8

10.— (1) Where it is proposed to transfer to the United Kingdom the registered office of an SE whose registered office is situated in another Member State, there must be delivered to the registrar an application for registration together with—

(a) a copy of the statutes of the SE; and

(b) a copy of the certificate issued in accordance with Article 8(8).

(2) The application must contain the following particulars—

(a) the SE’s name and registered number (if any);

(b) the date of the SE’s current registration;

(c) the SE’s current registered office address and the Member State in which this is situated;

(d) the name and address of the SE’s current registry;

(e) the SE’s principal business activities; and

(f) the date of the last balance sheet drawn up prior to the proposed transfer to the United Kingdom or, where no such balance sheet was drawn up, the date of formation of the SE.

(3) The application must also contain—

(a) a statement of the SE’s registered office address on transfer and any new name (see regulation 10A); and

(b) a statement of its proposed members (see regulation 10B).

(4) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(e), the information as to the SE’s principal business activities may be given by reference to one or more categories of any system of classifying business activities prescribed pursuant to section 855(3) of the 2006 Act.”

(1)

Regulation 10 was amended by regulation 11 of S.I. 2009/2400.