Retained EU Law 2001 United Kingdom

Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE)

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s.art011

(1) The name of a UK Societas shall be preceded...

  • Include 'UK Societas' in your company name if you are a UK Societas
s.art048

(1) An UK Societas's statutes shall list the categories of...

  • List transactions that need supervisory or administrative approval in your statutes
s.art054

(1) Subject to regulation 68 of the 2004 Regulations a...

  • Hold an annual general meeting within six months of year-end
s.art061

Subject to Article 62 A UK Societas shall be governed...

  • Prepare and publish audited annual accounts under applicable UK rules
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s.art001

(1) A company may be set up within the territory...

s.art002

(1) Public limited-liability companies such as referred to in Annex...

s.art003

(1) For the purposes of Article 2(1), (2) and (3),...

s.art004

(1) The capital of an SE shall be expressed in...

s.art005

Subject to Article 4(2), the capital of a UK Societas,...

s.art006

For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘the statutes of the...

s.art007

The registered office of an SE shall be located within...

s.art008

(1) The registered office of an SE may be transferred...

s.art009

(1) A UK Societas shall be governed:

s.art010

Subject to this Regulation, a UK Societas shall be treated...

s.art012

(1) Every SE shall be registered in the Member State...

s.art013

Publication of the documents and particulars concerning a UK Societas...

s.art014

(1) Notice of an SE's registration and of the deletion...

s.art015

(1) Subject to this Regulation, the formation of an SE...

s.art016

(1) An SE shall acquire legal personality on the date...

s.art017

(1) An SE may be formed by means of a...

s.art018

For matters not covered by this section or, where a...

s.art019

The laws of a Member State may provide that a...

s.art020

(1) The management or administrative organs of merging companies shall...

s.art021

For each of the merging companies and subject to the...

s.art022

As an alternative to experts operating on behalf of each...

s.art023

(1) The general meeting of each of the merging companies...

s.art024

(1) The law of the Member State governing each merging...

s.art025

(1) The legality of a merger shall be scrutinised, as...

s.art026

(1) The legality of a merger shall be scrutinised, as...

s.art027

(1) A merger and the simultaneous formation of an SE...

s.art028

For each of the merging companies the completion of the...

s.art029

(1) A merger carried out as laid down in Article...

s.art030

A merger as provided for in Article 2(1) may not...

s.art031

(1) Where a merger within the meaning of Article 17(2)(a)...

s.art032

(1) A holding SE may be formed in accordance with...

s.art033

(1) The shareholders of the companies promoting such an operation...

s.art034

A Member State may, in the case of companies promoting...

s.art035

An SE may be formed in accordance with Article 2(3)....

s.art036

Companies, firms and other legal entities participating in such an...

s.art037

(1) An SE may be formed in accordance with Article...

s.art038

Under the conditions laid down by this Regulation a UK...

s.art039

(1) The management organ shall be responsible for managing the...

s.art040

(1) The supervisory organ shall supervise the work of the...

s.art041

(1) The management organ shall report to the supervisory organ...

s.art042

The supervisory organ shall elect a chairman from among its...

s.art043

(1) The administrative organ shall manage the UK Societas. ......

s.art044

(1) The administrative organ shall meet at least once every...

s.art045

The administrative organ shall elect a chairman from among its...

s.art046

(1) Members of company organs shall be appointed for a...

s.art047

(1) A UK Societas's statutes may permit a company or...

s.art049

The members of a UK Societas's organs shall be under...

s.art050

(1) Unless otherwise provided by this Regulation or the statutes,...

s.art051

Members of a UK Societas's management, supervisory and administrative organs...

s.art052

The general meeting shall decide on matters for which it...

s.art053

Without prejudice to the rules laid down in this section,...

s.art055

(1) One or more shareholders who together hold at least...

s.art056

One or more shareholders who together hold at least 10...

s.art057

Save where this Regulation or, failing that, the law applicable...

s.art058

The votes cast shall not include votes attaching to shares...

s.art059

(1) Subject to regulation 59 of the 2004 Regulations amendment...

s.art060

(1) Where a UK Societas has two or more classes...

s.art062

(1) An SE which is a credit or financial institution...

s.art063

As regards winding up, liquidation, insolvency, cessation of payments and...

s.art064

(1) When an SE no longer complies with the requirement...

s.art065

Without prejudice to any enactment or rule of law requiring...

s.art066

(1) A UK Societas may be converted into a public...

s.art067

(1) ... Notwithstanding regulation 67 of the 2004 Regulations, an...

s.art068

(1) The Member States shall make such provision as is...

s.art069

Five years at the latest after the entry into force...

s.art070

This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 October 2004....

s.art.a1

In this Regulation— “ the 2004 Regulations ” means the...

s.art.aa1

(1.) On IP completion day every SE which remains registered...

s.art.aaa1

(1.) The UK Societas retains the legal personality it had...

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