Chapter 1

1. A company may be set up within the territory of the Community in the form of a European public limited-liability company (Societas Europaea or SE)…

1. Public limited-liability companies such as referred to in Annex I, formed under the law of a Member State, with registered offices and head…

1. For the purposes of Article 2(1), (2) and (3), an SE shall be regarded as a public limited-liability company governed by the law of the Member…

1. The capital of an SE shall be expressed in euro.

Subject to Article 4(1) and (2), the capital of an SE, its maintenance and changes thereto, together with its shares, bonds and other similar…

For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘the statutes of the SE’ shall mean both the instrument of incorporation and, where they are the subject of a…

The registered office of an SE shall be located within the Community, in the same Member State as its head office. A Member State may in addition…

1. The registered office of an SE may be transferred to another Member State in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 13. Such a transfer shall not result…

1. An SE shall be governed:

Subject to this Regulation, an SE shall be treated in every Member State as if it were a public limited-liability company formed in accordance with…

1. The name of an SE shall be preceded or followed by the abbreviation SE.

1. Every SE shall be registered in the Member State in which it has its registered office in a register designated by the law of that Member State in…

Publication of the documents and particulars concerning an SE which must be publicised under this Regulation shall be effected in the manner laid…

1. Notice of an SE's registration and of the deletion of such a registration shall be published for information purposes in the Official Journal of…