EC Regulation on Insolvency meaning

In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Latest Q&A EU Law Highlights 2024/2025 EU fundamentals European Commission releases December 2024 infringement package The European Commission has unveiled its December 2024 infringement package, identifying the Member States facing action for breaches of obligations under EU law. The notice outlines where obligations have not been met. This round includes letters of formal notice to Sweden over non-compliance with Directive 2000/60/EC (the Water Framework Directive), and to Bulgaria for breaches of Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement, as well as the Digital Services Act. Reasoned opinions were also addressed to Poland concerning Directive 2006/7/EC (the Bathing Water Directive); to Croatia, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden for not transposing...

This Practice Note gives an overview of the European company, Societas Europaea, or ‘SE’. It outlines how SEs are set up and run, their head office, share capital and shareholders, arrangements for employee participation, and the mechanism for shifting a head office from one Member State to another. What is a European company? A European company, also called a Societas Europaea (SE), is a corporate body that can be created within the EU. Once entered on the register in the Member State where its principal office sits, an SE enjoys recognition across Europe and holds its own separate legal personality. What is a head office? ‘Head office’ is not defined in EU legislation. The meaning of ‘head office’ was examined in the setting of Regulation (EC) 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings (now no longer in force) in the Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs delivered on 27 September 2005 in Case C‑341/04, Eurofood IFSC (paragraphs 106–126 and 152(3)). An SE is a public limited liability company regulated...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained Keeping abreast of case law that shapes a practitioner’s specialism, or influences civil litigation procedure generally, is a persistent challenge for those working in dispute resolution. This Practice Note distils the leading appeal authorities—decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and, where relevant, selected judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)—that we have reported, giving users straightforward access to those rulings. Use the table of contents in the left margin to browse, or locate items quickly with [CTRL]+[F]. It also sets out a selection of forthcoming appeals, where known, to aid horizon scanning. The material is not intended to be a comprehensive catalogue of every appeal and/or significant decision for dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeal cases—2019 Terminating contracts—frustration Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd v European Medicines Agency [2019] EWHC 921 (Ch)—Court of Appeal: permission to appeal granted in the lower court...

Status of the UK This material is archived and is not being updated. From exit day (31 January 2020), the UK ceased to be an EU Member State and, in line with the Withdrawal Agreement, entered an implementation phase during which EU law continued to apply. Citations to exit day in numerous Brexit SIs should be interpreted as referring to IP completion day (Implementation Period completion day, defined in clause 39 as 31 December 2020 at 11.00 pm), unless the relevant SI expressly disapplies that reading. For more detail, see News Analysis: Brexit—impact of the Withdrawal Agreement and European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 for R&I lawyers, and Brexit Bulletin—key updates, research tips and resources. We consider certain matters for R&I practitioners and professionals, in particular concerning (i) Regulation (EU) 2015/848 (OJ L141/19), the Recast Regulation on Insolvency [EU Recast Regulation on Insolvency], and (ii) the Retained Regulation (EU) 2015/848 [Retained Recast Regulation on Insolvency]...