The 28th Company Law Regime: EU Inc.

The 28th Company Law Regime: EU Inc.

On 18 March 2026, the European Commission published its draft regulation on the 28th company law regime. The new corporate form will be designated:

“European limited liability company (EU Inc.)” or “Société européenne à responsabilité limitée”

An EU Inc. must be incorporated online. Model articles of association will be made available to founders, but bespoke articles will also be permitted. An accelerated standard procedure, incorporating the necessary preventive checks and using the model articles, will enable a company to be incorporated within 48 hours for a fee of €100.

There will be no minimum share capital requirement for an EU Inc. The share capital could even be €0 throughout the lifetime of the company.

The company will be registered in the commercial register of the place of its registered office, which must be situated within the European Union. The draft regulation provides for the creation of a central European interface, based on the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), for the registration of companies in this new legal form and for the mandatory filings made by EU Inc. companies throughout their existence.

The articles of association must be drafted in the official language or one of the official languages of the State of registration and in the language most widely used internationally in the world of business and finance.

The draft regulation provides that the articles of association at the time of incorporation of an EU Inc. and any subsequent amendments thereto shall be subject to preventive administrative, judicial or notarial review, or a combination thereof.

Shares in EU Inc. companies will be dematerialised and recorded in a digital share register to be established at the time of incorporation. The text indicates that the articles of association may provide for shares to be issued, recorded and transferred using distributed ledger technology or equivalent technological solutions.

NOTE: It will not be possible for a Member State to require that transfers of shares be effected before a notary, as is currently the case in Germany, for example, in respect of GmbH companies (the German equivalent of a French SARL).