EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Opposes the creation of a central digital register and calls for preserving national registers and BRIS as the sole interconnection tool while maintaining strong preventive controls.
Maintain the role of national Trade and Companies Registers as trusted authorities with preventive controls including fraud prevention, AML/CFT compliance, beneficial ownership verification, and data protection; allow digital procedures but keep possibility for physical checks when needed; ensure accelerated procedures only apply to complete and simple files with suspension of deadlines if additional checks are required; remove uniform cost caps that could underfund registers.
“The French model is based on a register maintained by a designated authority, the Commercial Court Clerks, who receives documents, checks their validity, certifies their authenticity, conducts registration, and ensures legal publication... The registrar acts as a trusted authority, a role that is not limited to that of a mere technical operator... Allow digitalisation but maintain the possibility of additional measures including physical checks where the reliability of identity, capacity, registered office, origin of funds or beneficial ownership is at issue... The accelerated procedure and European cap must neither empty the control of its substance nor lead to registers underfunding... The time limit shall be suspended in the event of a request for additional information, an anomaly, a warning sign or enhanced verification.”
Contribution CNGTC consultation n2 Commission européenne_vf.pdf, page 2
Delete or revise Article 34 to prevent creation of an autonomous central digital register and confirm that BRIS remains the sole European tool for interconnection and dissemination of company data, preserving the role of national registers as authentic sources.
Refocus the regulation on company law areas with existing harmonisation and explicitly exclude overriding national rules on register control, legal publicity, AML/CFT, taxation, labour law, and insolvency; clarify that the central interface is only a technical access point without registration or validation functions.
“Refocus the Regulation on company law and on matters that have already been harmonised. The 28th regime must not override national rules regarding register control, legal publicity, fight against money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), taxation, labour law or insolvency... This Regulation shall be without prejudice to national and European rules regarding preventive control, legal publicity, the fight against fraud, the fight against money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, beneficial ownership, sanctions and restrictive measures, taxation, labour law and insolvency... The central interface must solely be a technical channel for access, transmission and consultation; BRIS must remain the sole European tool for the interconnection and dissemination of legal information on companies; the national business register must remain the authentic source of legal data on registered companies.”
Contribution CNGTC consultation n2 Commission européenne_vf.pdf, page 5
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