EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports the 28th regime but wants it to include legal forms and mechanisms for steward-ownership and employee-ownership to protect European firms from short-term financial takeovers.
Include all European firms in the 28th regime with a focus on ownership retention to prevent loss of assets and jobs to foreign investors.
“With 400.000 EU businesses changing ownership every year and business owners often lacking a succession plan... more exit options need to be made available.”
Feedback, 2025-09-23
Create a legal form for steward-ownership and employee-ownership companies with clear features like asset locks and transfer restrictions.
“A legal form for steward-ownership (SO) and employee-ownership (EO), listing the features of both to allow for establishment as an SO or EO company, such as asset locks; restrictions on transfer of control rights (cannot be sold freely); separation of control rights and profit rights...”
Feedback, 2025-09-23
Allow separation of control rights and profit rights, and rules on reinvestment of excess profits rather than shareholder dividends.
“Separation of control rights and profit rights; rules about how excess profits are reinvested or used for the companys mission rather than for shareholder dividends...”
Feedback, 2025-09-23
Enable employee ownership through a separate legal entity with proportional governance participation and inclusion of all employees.
“An EO company, which includes the use of a separate legal entity (SPV) through which employees can gain ownership... the participation of employees in governance proportionally to the percentage owned by the SPV;”
Feedback, 2025-09-23
Base the 28th regime on shared principles that allow adjustment to national legal environments and support future-proof ownership structures.
“With a legally recognised and tax-neutral mechanism for the transition to SO or EO, both based around European design principles but adjustable to the legal environment of every member state.”
Feedback, 2025-09-23
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