After 30 years of debate, the law on the European Company (Societas Europaea, SE) has now come into force. Yet, its success could be doubted, because the regulation and the directive on the SE provide only some basic provisions and refer frequently to the law of the Member States. In this...

Sind die Mitbestimmungsrechte der deutschen Belegschaft bei Umwandlung in eine SE geschützt? Oder besteht Handlungsbedarf, wie es der letzte Koalitionsvertrag angekündigt hat? Dies hat die Stiftung Familienunternehmen in einem Gutachten untersuchen lassen. Autor ist Professor Christoph...

When a company’s business is not limited to satisfying only the local needs in the Member State, it is necessary to create a statute which is able to plan and carry out the reorganization of its business on a larger level. The completion and the improvement of the internal market throughout...

This working paper investigates whether European board-level representation of employees in European Companies (SEs) is really ‘Europeanised' or is coloured by the national system of their company's country of origin.The authors used responses of employees sitting on SE boards to a...

In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners' actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In...

Gründe für die Wahl einer SE -- Verbreitung der SE in Deutschland und Europa -- Corporate Governance in der SE -- Übersicht der Gründungsvarianten.- Mitbestimmung in der SE und Arbeitnehmerbeteiligungsverfahren -- Sitz der SE und Sitzverlegung -- Vergleich der SE mit anderen europäischen...

This article analyses the negotiations on worker involvement in the first almost four years of the European Company SE and their outcomes. First, some basic institutional aspects of the SE itself and its current empirical situation are described and explained. Then, the focus is on questions of...

The Societas Europaea (SE) harmonized a minimum of company law and assigned employee representation to a supplementary negotiation process. Commentators predicted that it would introduce cross-border regulatory competition to the EU. Others suggested that companies would choose the SE over other...