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Relocating registered office of a business corporation within the European Union
Jirková, Pavla ; Kunertová, Tereza (advisor) ; Svobodová, Magdaléna (referee)
The idea of internal market is one of the basic concepts of the European integration. The internal market of the European Union is a single market in which the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons is ensured. This thesis focuses on the free movements of legal persons in the European Union, namely freedom of establishment and the possibility of cross-border transfer of a company's registered office. This business focused freedom is regulated mainly by primary law in Articles 49 a 54 TFEU and its main objective is to enable the exercise of economic activities even in the territory of other Member States. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the regulation and development of case law regarding freedom of establishment of companies and give their comprehensive analysis. Furthermore, the thesis points out the fact that the choice of company's seat and its change is often associated with advantageous conditions laid down by national legislation. Companies often choose countries which have minimum requirements for their establishment and existence. States are aware of this behavior. Consequently, some of them reduce their legal standards and try to attract companies into their territory. This may cause the battle of jurisdictions. The thesis consists of the initial and final part and...
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Relocating registered office of a business corporation within the European Union
Jirková, Pavla ; Kunertová, Tereza (advisor) ; Svobodová, Magdaléna (referee)
The idea of internal market is one of the basic concepts of the European integration. The internal market of the European Union is a single market in which the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons is ensured. This thesis focuses on the free movements of legal persons in the European Union, namely freedom of establishment and the possibility of cross-border transfer of a company's registered office. This business focused freedom is regulated mainly by primary law in Articles 49 a 54 TFEU and its main objective is to enable the exercise of economic activities even in the territory of other Member States. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the regulation and development of case law regarding freedom of establishment of companies and give their comprehensive analysis. Furthermore, the thesis points out the fact that the choice of company's seat and its change is often associated with advantageous conditions laid down by national legislation. Companies often choose countries which have minimum requirements for their establishment and existence. States are aware of this behavior. Consequently, some of them reduce their legal standards and try to attract companies into their territory. This may cause the battle of jurisdictions. The thesis consists of the initial and final part and...
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New forms of cross-border transformation after the big amendment of the Transformation Act
Janíček, Marcel ; Čech, Petr (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis deals with the new forms of cross-border transformation after the big amendment of the Transformation Act, which came to effect on 1 January 2012. The particular new options in the area of the cross-border transformations are analyzed in connection with the relevant case law of Court of Justice. The thesis follows the scheme of the Act, therefore the first chapter deals with general issues of cross-border transformations. This chapter identifies the conception of the cross-border transformation and then the categories of the entities which can participate in cross-border transformation. Then I deal with the various types of cross-border transformations. The first transformation analyzed is the cross-border merger. In addition to another the question of cross-border merger exclusively of Czech companies to foreign company is addressed in this chapter The next chapter deals with cross-border division. The special attention is paid to the possibilities of the cross-border division of societas europaea. The third chapter deals with the cross-border transfer of assets. Although even before the amendment the foreign person was allowed to take the assets of Czech company, Transformation Act now regulates this transformation much more in detail, including variation of the transfer of assets of a...
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Companies and their mobility in the European context
Belloňová, Pavla ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee)
With regard to the gradual economic globalisation markets of States become more and more interconnected, especially so in the European Union which aims to create a single internal market without internal borders and barriers to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Naturally, it influences behaviour of economic participants on the market. With increase of competition it is necessary to be more innovative, active and to search for new opportunities for expansion not only in one's own State but also abroad which entails entering into relations with foreign entities. In the course of time it might be useful or even necessary to relocate the place of business. Such need might not and, indeed, does not concern only natural person but also legal entities such as companies. However, the status of companies in cross-border relations has some specific features in comparison to the status of natural persons. A company is only an artificial product of law, a mere legal fiction, and therefore, its existence is much more closely linked with a specific legal order. A company has legal personality only insofar as some legal order acknowledges it. Different approaches how to link a company to a certain State have been evolved in different States - either the connecting factor is the statutory...
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Mobility of companies within the European Union in the light of the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU
Pikal, Daniel ; Scheu, Harald Christian (advisor) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the current legal issue concerning the corporate mobility within the European Union. The main focus is placed, in particular, on the analysis of the relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Other parts of this thesis will give an overview of cross border mergers and supranational forms of companies including their ability to transfer their seat to other member states without being wound up in liquidation before the transaction within the area of the European Union. As evident from the title, the paper focuses on the topic from the European perspective only and the issue of the mobility from, or into, a non-member state is not dealt with. The first chapter provides a brief definition of the basic legal concepts that are crucial to this thesis. The definition of freedom of establishment in the context of the common market of the EU is given and also the incorporation theory and the real seat theory are briefly outlined, as well as the conflict that may arise between these two doctrines. The second chapter, the most extensive chapter which represents the core of this thesis, describes and analyzes the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union law relating to the freedom of establishment. This chapter is divided into two...
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Cross-border transformations of commercial companies
Rajdová, Denisa ; Dobiáš, Petr (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee) ; Pauknerová, Monika (referee)
This thesis discusses a method of implementation of the freedom of company establishment in the form of cross-border transformations after the amendment of the Transformation Act, which came into force on 1 January 2012. This right which a company is guaranteed is analyzed in the context of relevant CJEU case law. This thesis follows the structure of the Act. The first part deals with general issues of cross-border transformations and is followed by a chapter on the types of cross-border transformations. The final part of this thesis is devoted to a discussion about the possible kinds of economic movation for the tranformations. The goal is to analyze the possibilities of cross-border transformations and to assess their historical development with respect to both major CJEU decisions and legislative activities of the EU and the Czech Republic.
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Problems of European company in practice
Štouračová, Vanda ; Švarc, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Grmelová, Nicole (referee)
European company is a supranational form of public limited company. The aim of European Union was to make unified legal form for enterprises. The aim was not very successful because of disagreement of member states on employee participation. Also the fragmentation of legal frame of European company is too deep. The thesis analyse legal basis of European company and ways of its establishment. Examples from practice of Court of Justice of the European Union show difficulties in seat transfer before European company existed. Statistics and charts demonstrate unique position of Czech Republic. It is because of the absolutely highest number of established European companies, which is caused by trading trend with ready-made companies.
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