EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports a fully harmonised EU Inc. regime that enables faster expansion, investor clarity, and competitive employee stock options for start-ups like theirs.
Allow any start-up to use the EU Inc. form to enable faster growth and cross-border hiring without repeated legal processes.
“Because we already deal with multiple EU jurisdictions, we experience the fragmentation of company law, ESOP rules and AI compliance first-hand.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Implement one pan-European registration that eliminates repeat notary visits, translations, and share-register filings when hiring in new Member States.
“One pan-European registration would eliminate repeat notary visits, translations and share-register filings each time we hire in a new Member State.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Allow a single conformity assessment for high-risk AI products that is mutually recognised across the EU to reduce duplicate audits.
“High-risk AI productsalready complex under the EU AI Actwould still need separate audits in each jurisdiction instead of one conformity assessment for the whole market.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Establish a unified arbitration framework to prevent forum shopping and reduce litigation costs.
“A unified arbitration framework would stop forum shopping and slash litigation cost.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Create a unified share class recognized across all Member States to reduce due diligence time and legal fees for investors.
“A unified share class, recognised everywhere, would shrink diligence time and legal fees for both angels and institutional funds.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Harmonise employee stock option plans so identical packages can be offered across Member States without bespoke local paperwork.
“A harmonised employee-option scheme would let us offer identical packages to engineers in Zagreb, Hamburg or Lisbon without bespoke local paperwork.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Ensure employee options are harmonised and tax-deferred to support talent retention across the EU.
“Competitive ESOPs. A harmonised employee-option scheme would let us offer identical packages to engineers in Zagreb, Hamburg or Lisbon without bespoke local paperwork.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Reject a modest, patch-up directive and instead adopt a fully harmonised EU Inc. regulation to avoid fragmentation in company law, tax, and employment rules.
“Minimum-harmonisation still leaves 27 corporate laws, 27 tax codes and 27 sets of employment rules.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Not addressed explicitly.
Defer tax on employee stock options until liquidity under one EU-wide ESOP template.
“Tax should be deferred until liquidity, under one EU-wide ESOP template.”
Feedback, 2025-07-16
Open source underneath
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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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