EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports a narrow, digital-first EU company form focused strictly on company law but wants clear limits on scope and no tax or labour harmonization within the core regime.
Limit the new EU company form to a narrow scope strictly focused on company law, avoiding overscoping into tax or labour harmonization.
“The core design should be narrow, digital-first, and focused strictly on company law.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Create a central EU registry with an open API providing once-only onboarding, synchronized as read-only mirrors to national registers, integrated with eIDAS and a European Business Wallet for seamless cross-border use.
“A central EU registry with an open API should provide once-only onboarding, automatically synchronized to national registers as read-only mirrors. Coupled with eIDAS and a European Business Wallet, verified corporate and HR credentials could be reused seamlessly across borders.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Harmonize rules on share classes, pre-emption rights, information rights, and transparent cap tables, and establish a baseline EU framework for employee stock options that ensures cross-border mobility, portability, and taxation at liquidity.
“Europe needs one company form, one registry, one market: a modern EU company type with harmonized rules on formation, governance, share classes, pre-emption, information rights, and transparent cap tables... a baseline EU framework for employee stock options should align recognition of options and awards, ensure mobility and portability, and anchor taxation at liquidity rather than at grant or vesting.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Keep employment law within national competence but guarantee procedural interoperability such as mutual recognition of corporate actions and qualified e-signatures EU-wide, plus a light uniform template for compliant cross-border remote work with clear permanent-establishment safe harbours.
“Employment should remain within national competence, but procedural interoperability is essential. Mutual recognition of corporate actions... and qualified e-signatures... should be guaranteed EU-wide. A light, uniform template for compliant cross-border remote work with clear permanent-establishment safe harbours would give startups certainty while respecting national labour and tax rules.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Adopt a fully harmonized regulation rather than a directive to avoid fragmentation and the failures of the Societas Europaea experience, and avoid overscoping into tax or labour harmonization within the corporate-law MVP.
“First, a non-harmonized directive, 27 national transpositions or local form + EU add-on variants would defeat the purpose and repeat the Societas Europaea experience. Second, overscoping into tax or labour harmonization would stall consensus.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Provide minimum standards for fast, affordable dissolution, honest-debtor discharge, removal of criminal-law-like stigmas, and predictable director-liability safe harbours for early-stage firms, with disputes defaulting to ADR and specialised fast-track chambers.
“Minimum standards should provide fast, affordable dissolution, honest-debtor discharge, removal of criminal-law-like stigmas, and predictable director-liability safe harbours for early-stage firms. Disputes should default to ADR, with specialised fast-track chambers designated in Member States.”
Feedback, 2025-09-29
Exclude tax harmonization from the core 28th regime and address tax incentives separately via opt-in programmes or soft-law guidance, limiting tax elements in the ESOP framework to timing of taxation at liquidity only.
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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