EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports simplifying company founding procedures for start-ups but wants stronger preventive legal advice and control to ensure legal stability and clarity on corporate governance and ownership structures.
Recognize that start-ups have complex realities and that simple standardised founding documents may not meet their needs fully.
“The proposal for a regulation clearly assumes that standardised founding documents and largely automated procedures meet the needs of start-ups. This assumption is only partially convincing. The reality of many companies is much more complex.”
Feedback, 2026-06-24 · the Commission’s translation
Ensure transparency and legal certainty in documenting ownership relationships, especially in equity transactions, to support EU objectives on beneficial ownership transparency.
“If control mechanisms are reduced, this can make it difficult to understand shareholding structures at a later stage.”
Feedback, 2026-06-24 · the Commission’s translation
Include preventive legal advice and control mechanisms by notaries or registries to protect founders and third parties and to identify long-term risks early.
“Preventive legal advice and control therefore serve not only to protect third parties, but also to protect the founders themselves. They help identify long-term risks at an early stage and create balanced contract structures.”
Feedback, 2026-06-24 · the Commission’s translation
Allow for detailed regulation of corporate governance issues such as distribution of voting rights, anti-dilution clauses, and exit rights beyond standardised model contracts.
“From an early stage, issues of corporate governance, distribution of voting rights, anti-dilution clauses or exit rights become relevant. Such issues can only be covered to a limited extent by standardised model contracts.”
Feedback, 2026-06-24 · the Commission’s translation
Ensure legal systems provide trust to investors, founders and business partners by maintaining transparency and legal certainty in ownership documentation.
“In the long term, however, Europe will not become more competitive through the simplest way of creating a company, but through the legal systems that investors, founders and business partners trust.”
Feedback, 2026-06-24 · the Commission’s translation
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