European Company

Abstract

The present Master's dissertation deals with the Societas Europaea , also known as a European public company. This new corporate structure has been a real breakthrough for the consolidation of the European internal market, making the European Union (hereinafter referred as EU) a stronger organisation with regard to trading, not only within Europe but also with other countries, increasing the competitiveness of the EU as a whole. Since the entry into force of the Council Regulation (EC) nº 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 (hereinafter referred as SE Regulation or The Regulation), many European Companies have been converted into a Societas Europaea (hereinafter referred as SE or European Public Company). However, the success has been substantially higher in northern countries, being currently Germany as well as Czech Republic the countries with higher amount of SE already set up.