EU Inc (the 28th regime) · 2026/0074(COD)
Supports a fast, fully digital, standardized EU company form focused on startups but wants it to be strictly regulated as a centralized regulation with no national flexibility and coordinated with banks and payment providers.
Limit the new form to micro to medium digital startups with standardized structures, encouraging larger or traditional businesses to use existing national regimes with clear migration paths.
“The focus here should be on micro to medium digital businesses within a fairly limited range of startup structures - I would have no concern with larger/more unusual/more traditional non-digital businesses all being strongly encouraged/forced to pick an existing national regime instead (with a clear migration path for businesses who grow to the size and need to shift into national spheres).”
Feedback, 2025-07-15
Create a 100% digital setup process available in English, with instant registration and management, including public APIs for automation and data access.
“Aim to provide an experience matching Stripe Atlas but natively. In practice, this means English available for everything (at minimum), 100% digital setup, management & external validation/identity demonstration, with extremely standardized business structures. There should be a strict requirement to include a public API for everything relating to this (fully supporting automation/digital access of data & business management generally, & providing a base for digital ecosystems to emerge around this).”
Feedback, 2025-07-15
Coordinate with neobanks and SaaS payment processors to ensure the new form supports instant setup, simple payments, inbound transfers, and fast credit access.
“It would be useful to coordinate with banks (particularly the neobanks, e.g. Revolut/N26/Qonto/Vivid etc) and SaaS payment processors (like Stripe & Paddle, all likely to be used in this market) to understand their requirements to be able to provide an effective ecosystem that fully supports this regime from the start (instant setup, immediately functional for simple payments & inbound transfers, fast access to credit where possible).”
Feedback, 2025-07-15
Ensure the EU company form is easier and faster to set up and manage than Delaware LLCs to prevent founders from incorporating outside the EU.
“In my opinion that is the competition to beat: an EU LLC must be faster & cheaper to setup, and easier to manage, invest in & sell, than Delaware.”
Feedback, 2025-07-15
Adopt a regulation (not a directive) with a single centralized set of hard rules and zero national flexibility for the EU company form.
“I've heard discussion of regulation vs directive that particularly concern me here - this inherently needs a single centralized set of hard rules, with zero national flexibility.”
Feedback, 2025-07-15
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