EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports a pan-European startup-friendly company form but wants it to be truly founder-first, fast, digital, and investment-ready with harmonised rules and interoperability.
Create a true EU-wide company identity with harmonised rules, clear digital credentials, and legal portability across Member States to avoid fragmentation.
“A true EU-wide company identity: A pan-European legal entity with harmonised rules, clear digital credentials (EUID, Company Certificate), and legal portability across Member States. Anything less will perpetuate fragmentation.”
28th Regime Consultation Submission Final.pdf, page 2
Design the company setup to be fast, digital-by-default, with a maximum of 48 hours for company formation and a single digital interface, ensuring it is simpler and more scalable than current national regimes.
“Fast, digital-by-default setup and operations: Company formation, governance, capital raising, and dissolution should be fast, standardised, and 100% digital, not “digital sometimes” or “digital if Member States agree.” Target: an absolute maximum of 48h company setup and single digital interface, ideally faster.”
28th Regime Consultation Submission Final.pdf, page 2
Ensure interoperability with national systems so founders can use the 28th regime instead of navigating 27 national regimes, providing a compelling alternative rather than an extra layer of complexity.
“Interoperability with national systems: Founders must be able to use the 28th regime instead of navigating 27 national regimes. It must offer a compelling alternative, not a complicated extra layer.”
28th Regime Consultation Submission Final.pdf, page 3
Design governance rules that reflect the agility, iteration, and uncertainty inherent in startup building rather than traditional corporate law assumptions.
“Governance designed for speed and iteration: The startup journey is not linear. The rules must reflect the agility, iteration, and uncertainty inherent in startup building, not the assumptions of traditional corporate law.”
28th Regime Consultation Submission Final.pdf, page 3
Include standardised share classes, digital capital increases, and enforceable shareholder agreements to enable credible investment at scale.
“Credible investment-readiness: The regime must enable investment at scale. This means standardised share classes, digital capital increases, enforceable shareholder agreements, and an optional legal framework investors can trust.”
28th Regime Consultation Submission Final.pdf, page 2
Open source underneath
WhoShapedIt is a thin layer on open-source packages. Star them, fork them, build your own micro.
Open-source context and state for AI: it keeps only what matters for the question.
In WhoShapedIt: Reads every lobby submission and position paper and each official text, cut into passages, and judges each passage against nine questions (who can use EU Inc, workers on the board, tax…), so every ask and every step is read on the passages that address it.
Open-source Svelte components for clean, accessible interfaces.
In WhoShapedIt: The status, the timeline, the theme picker, the camps of lobbies and the organisation pages.
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