Report of the Reflection Group On the Future of EU Company Law

La Comisión Europea presentó el pasado 5 de abril el "Report of the Reflection Group On the Future of EU Company Law". El Grupo de reflexión sobre el futuro de la normativa de la UE sobre sociedades fue creado en diciembre de 2010 por la Comisión Europea con la finalidad de elaborar un informe para la Conferencia celebrada los días 16 y 17 de mayo de 2011. Con este Informe, el Grupo de reflexión pretendió analizar los problemas actuales del Derecho de sociedades de la UE y proponer soluciones que pudieran ser debatidas en la Conferencia de mayo de 2011.
El Grupo de reflexión ha estado integrado por José Engrácia Antunes, Theodor Baums, Blanaid Clarke, Pierre-Henri Conac, Luca Enriques, András Hanák, Jesper Lau Hansen, Harm-Jan de Kluiver, Vanessa Knapp, Noëlle Lenoir, Leena Linnainmaa, Stanislaw Soltysinski, Eddy Wymeersch.
Extracto del contenido del Informe:

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. EU company law at present
1.2. Focused harmonisation
1.3. Issues of corporate governance
Chapter 2: Cross-border mobility
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The reach of free establishment at present
2.3. Enhancing the mobility of national companies
2.4. The significant link between company and Home State
2.5. Taxation
2.6. Enhancing cross-border mergers
2.7. EU law as a 28th company law regime
2.8. Enhancing transparency
Chapter 3: The contribution of governance and investors to long term viability of companies
3.1. Long term viability in listed companies
3.2 Worker participation at the board level
3.3 Non listed companies
Chapter 4: Groups of companies
4.1 The recognition of the “interest of the group” by EU legislation
4.2. The simplified single member company template
4.3 Transparency of groups structures and relations
Annex 1: List of recommendations
Introduction – recommendations
Cross-border mobility – recommendations
The contribution of corporate governance and investors to long term viability of companies – recommendations
Groups of companies - recommendations

Sobre el Informe véase el blog de Juan Sánchez-Calero Guilarte.

Agradezco la información a la Profesora Pilar Blanco-Morales (Universidad de Extremadura).