What Are the Issues Relating to Digitalisation in Company Law?

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Series Details June 2016
Publication Date June 2016
ISBN 978-92-823-9339-0
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Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.The Note sets out areas where digitalisation could bring benefits in the company law area, looking at issues such as online formation of companies, electronic filing of documents, safeguards for information, information sharing by business registries, digital communication between a company and its shareholders including relating to general meetings, a company's email address and URL, electronic company records, and digital signature of contracts and execution of documents.

External author: Vanessa Knapp (OBE)

Source Link Link to Main Source http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/985140
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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/
European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, June 2016: What Are the Issues Relating to Digitalisation in Company Law? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/556961/IPOL_IDA(2016)556961_EN.pdf
European Commission: DG Justice: Conference on Company Law in the Digital Age. Adapting company law and corporate governance to the digital world, Brussels, 2 October 2015 http://ec.europa.eu/justice/events/company-law-2015/index_en.htm
The Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG): Report on digitalisation in company law, March 2016 http://ec.europa.eu/justice/civil/files/company-law/icleg-report-on-digitalisation-24-march-2016_en.pdf

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