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Registered office definition

What does Registered office mean? The registered office is the official address of a company where legal notices, court proceedings, and regulator correspondence are sent and deemed served. In the UK, Companies Act 2006 s 86 requires every company to have a registered office at all times; it must be situated in the same UK jurisdiction as the company’s incorporation (England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland: s 87). Following the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, the address must be an “appropriate address” (capable of acknowledging and receiving delivery) and PO boxes are not permitted. Companies House records the address; changes should be...

European Economic Interest Groupings (EEIGs): purpose, formation, membership, liability, taxation, winding up, advantages and UK post‑Brexit implications

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Practice notes

This Practice Note offers an overview, addressing their formation, corporate status, membership, winding up, and the benefits and drawbacks.

What is an EEIG?

An EEIG brings together businesses or other bodies from separate Member States that wish to collaborate and carry on activities across borders.

Its legal foundation is Council Regulation (EEC) 2137/85 (the EEIG Regulation).

That instrument permits Member States to enact specified domestic provisions concerning EEIGs.

Consequently, EU jurisdictions vary in rules on legal capacity, governance and audit requirements for EEIGs. Accordingly, areas such as legal capacity, management arrangements and auditing may not be identical from one jurisdiction to another.

Following the UK's withdrawal from the EU, EEIG registration in the UK ceased to be possible. New EEIGs could not be formed on the UK register, and existing groupings depended on the pre‑exit legislative mechanism effectively at that time.

Before the transition period ended on 31 December 2020, legislation ensured that EEIGs on the UK register at that moment were automatically converted into UK Economic Interest Groupings (UKEIGs).

The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/1299, also address EEIG establishments, meaning UK establishments of EEIGs registered in a Member State.

The Regulations preserve the...

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