WhoShapedIt EU Inc

EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)

How COO lobbied on EU Inc

Supports, with changes
Company · FRA

Supports a digital, innovation-friendly EU company form but wants harmonized stock options, AI-native legal tools, labor model reforms, and flexibility for innovative sectors.

1 submission to the Commission. Summaries are AI-written; the quotes are theirs, checked word for word.

What they asked for

  1. How fast can you set one up?

    Backs it
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Create a fully digital, optional European legal status for innovative companies with a centralized registry and fast-track setup.

    “Create a fully digital, optional European legal status for innovative companies, with a centralized registry and fast-track setup.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13
    Wants changes
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Build AI-native legal tools into the framework, including automated compliance (KYC/AML), smart contracts, real-time audit, and optional blockchain-based registries.

    “Build AI-native legal tools into the framework: automated compliance (KYC/AML), smart contracts, real-time audit, and optional blockchain-based registries.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13
    Wants changes
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Enable flexibility in contracts, restructuring, and funding for high-impact sectors like AI, robotics, healthtech, and clean energy.

    “Enable flexibility in contracts, restructuring, and funding for high-impact sectors like AI, robotics, healthtech, and clean energy.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13
  2. How do shares and employee stock options work?

    Wants changes
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Harmonize stock-option (ESOP) schemes across the EU to unlock talent mobility and long-term commitment.

    “Harmonize stock-option (ESOP) schemes across the EU to unlock talent mobility and long-term commitment.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13
  3. Do workers keep a say on the board?

    Wants changes
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Reform labor models for startups and large innovative companies to allow more flexibility in managing technical teams, hiring fast, and pivoting when needed, moving away from the rigid CDI model.

    “Reform labor models, not just for startups but also for large innovative companies. Allow them more flexibility in managing technical teams, hiring fast, pivoting when needed. The rigid CDI model is incompatible with rapid innovation cycles.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13
  4. What happens when it fails?

    Wants changes
    Call for evidence (2025) · 13 Jul 2025

    Allow founders to fail, recover, and start again to embrace risk as part of innovation and encourage investors to bet on vision, not just immediate compliance.

    “Embrace risk as part of innovation: allow founders to fail, recover, and start again. Encourage investors to bet on vision, not just immediate compliance.”

    Feedback, 2025-07-13

Their submissions

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