TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations 7 I. INTRODUCTION 14 II. LEGAL BASIS 16 III. GENERAL PART 19 1. SOME PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASPECTS 19 2. FORMATION of an EEIG 21 2.1. Membership 21 2.2. Third countries 22 2.3. Contract of Formation 22 2.4. Registration 24 2.5. Publication 24 2.6. Legal Personality 25 3. ACTIVITY 26 3.1. General considerations 26 3.2. Prohibitions 26 3.3. Doctrine Ultra Vires 27 3.4. Professional Groupings 28 4. ORGANS 30 4.1. Members Acting Collectively 30 4.1.1. Decision Making Process 30 4.1.2. Modification of the Membership and Transfer of the Official Address 31 4.1.2.1. Admission of New Members 31 4.1.2.2. Withdrawal of a Member 32 4.1.2.3. Expulsion of a Member 32 4.1.2.4. Death of a Member 32 4.1.2.5. Assignation 32 4.1.2.6. Payment of the Participation and the Continuing Existence of EEIG 32 4.1.2.7. Transfer of the Official Address 33 4.2. Management 34 4.2.1. Appointment and Disqualification of Managers 34 4.2.2. Managers' Powers 34 4.2.3. Represenation 34 4.2.4. Liability of Managers 35 4.2.5. Labour-law Aspects 35 5. FINANCE of EEIG. 36 5.1. Starting Capital 36 5.2. Access to External Financial Sources 36 5.3. Distribution of Profits 37 5.4. Taxation 37 6. LIABILITY for DEBTS 39 7. PARTICIPATION in PUBLIC CALLS for TENDERS 41 7.1. Public Contracts 41 7.2. Participation in Support Programmes 42 8. EEIG and EC COMPETITION LAW 43 8.1. EEIG and Art 81 of the Treaty on EC 43 8.2. EEIG and Council Regulation 4064/89 on the Control of Concentrations Between Undertakings 45 8.3. National Laws on Competition 46 9. TERMINATION 47 9.1. Manners of Termination 47 9.2. Consequences 47 9.3. Insolvency and Cessation of Payments 48 9.4. Time Limitation 49 IV. SPECIFIC PART 50 1. SPECIFICS by the MEMBER STATES 50 1.1. Belgium 50 1.2. Denmark 51 1.3. Germany 51 1.4. Greece 53 1.5. Spain 53 1.6. France 54 1.7. Ireland 55 1.8. Italy 56 1.9. Luxembourg 56 1.10. Netherlands 57 1.11. Austria 58 1.12. Portugal 58 1.13. Finnla. 59 1.14. Sweden 59 1.15. United Kingdom 60 1.16. European Economic Area (Norway, Island, Liechtenstein) 61 2. Slovene Regulation on EEIG 62 2.1. Introduction 62 2.2. Regulation 62 3. EEIG in PRACTICE 65 V. CONCLUSION 67 Appendix: Statistics of Formed EEIG 68 Bibliography 69 Legal Sources 72weiterlesen