Resources (curated library)

Primary sources (official EU process)

• Commission EU Inc. Proposal Package (18 March 2026)

  The full legislative proposal for an EU-wide corporate framework for innovative companies. Includes the draft regulation, communication, annex, factsheet, and impact assessment.

• Draft Regulation Text — COM(2026) 321

  The legal text of the proposed EU Inc. regulation as submitted to Parliament and Council.

• Current legislative procedure file - 2026/0074(COD)

  Parliament's OEIL procedure file for the live ordinary legislative procedure, including committee responsibility, rapporteur assignments, and referral status.

• Commission Press Release — EU Inc: Making Business Easier (18 March 2026)

  Official announcement and summary of the proposal package.

• European Council Conclusions (19–20 March 2026)

  EU leaders endorsed the “One Europe, One Market” agenda and called for adoption of the 28th regime by end of 2026.

• Council of the EU - Competitiveness Council main results (28 May 2026)

  Official Council readout from the first minister-level policy debate on EU Inc. Ministers backed continued work toward the end-2026 target, while safeguards and legal certainty remained central negotiation points.

• Council provisional agenda - COMPET 28 May 2026 (CM 2753/26)

  Formal agenda confirming EU Inc. as item 2 for public deliberation at the 28 May Competitiveness Council.

• Council Presidency background brief - EU Inc. policy debate (ST 8598/26)

  The note framing the ministerial exchange, including open questions on legal basis, insolvency and taxation, forum shopping, co-determination, and safeguards.

• Formal EESC consultation - EU Inc. proposal (CM 2668/26)

  Council document triggering the formal European Economic and Social Committee consultation on COM(2026) 321, separate from the April EESC Workers' Group conference.

• European Parliament adopted text — 28th-regime recommendations (20 January 2026)

  Parliament's formal adopted recommendations in procedure 2025/2079(INL), which fed into the Commission's March proposal.

• European Parliament press release — “MEPs propose new legal framework for innovative companies” (16 January 2026)

  Parliament's pre-vote framing ahead of the 20 January adopted recommendations, useful as a short institutional summary of the political case for the regime.

• Council Working Party on Company Law — Session 2 Agenda (17 April 2026)

  Agenda document for the Council working-party session examining the Commission proposal article by article.

• European Commission — Work Programme 2026 (EUR-Lex)

  High-level roadmap that references setting up the 28th regime.

• European Parliament — Legislative Train: “28th regime for innovative companies”

  Parliament’s tracking page summarising where the initiative sits and what comes next.

• European Commission — “Have your say” initiative (28th regime consultation)

  The consultation hub and stakeholder feedback around the future regime.

• European Commission — EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy

  Strategy context that repeatedly references reducing fragmentation for startups and scaleups.

Core proposals and positions

• EU-INC - Policy proposal and position paper

  The community blueprint and current negotiation position for EU Inc., including register-once-operate-everywhere, non-discrimination, the central registry, and EU-wide stock-option asks.

  Homepage: EU–INC

• Bruegel — “Regime 0” (policy brief)

  A structured, targeted optional regime for innovative, scale-oriented startups.

  PDF: Download

Parliament research & neutral summaries

• EPRS briefing — “The 28th regime corporate legal framework” (15 April 2026)

  Parliament’s research-service briefing on the Commission proposal. Useful as a neutral institutional summary of the legal framework and political context.

• European Parliament Topics - “EU Inc.: what is the 28th regime?” (6 May 2026)

  Public-facing Parliament explainer published after Commissioner McGrath's JURI appearance, useful for a quick institutional read of the proposal and timeline.

• European Parliament Research — “The 28th regime” brief (PDF)

  A compact overview of the concept, trade-offs, and framing before the proposal text arrived.

• European Parliament study — “The Scope of the 28th Regime” (PDF)

  Deeper analysis of design choices, legal constraints, and the optional-regime model.

Positions from stakeholders (useful signals)

• DigitalEurope — Position on the 28th regime (PDF)

  Industry positioning on what an optional EU-wide company framework should solve for startups and growth companies.

• European Law Institute — Response to the consultation (PDF)

  Legal-technical feedback on the consultation and design choices behind a 28th-regime framework.

• German Federal Chamber of Notaries - “EU Inc.: A 28th Regime of Uncertainty”

  Institutional critique focused on preventive control, register reliability, and the legal-basis risk. Useful now that safeguards and legal certainty have moved to the centre of the Council debate.

Tax dimension (FISC)

• FISC Public Hearing — Feasibility of a 28th Tax Regime (24 February 2026)

  Parliament’s tax subcommittee hearing with expert presentations from Bruegel, CEPS, and ETAF on whether a complementary tax regime is feasible.

  Hearing hub: agenda, programme, documents, and webstream

• FISC Subcommittee Meeting — Feasibility of a 28th Tax Regime (16 April 2026)

  Secondary coverage of the parallel tax workstream examining whether an EU-level tax framework could complement the 28th-regime company-law regulation.

• Bruegel “Regime 0 / Hub0” policy brief

  Reference brief frequently cited in the tax-policy discussion around optional regimes for innovative firms.

• CEPS and ETAF submissions

  Supporting submissions linked from the FISC hearing materials.

Academic & policy analysis

• Oxford Business Law Blog - “The EU's 28th Regime and the Future of Insolvency Law: Why One Size May Fail All” (28 May 2026)

  Wolf-Georg Ringe's post-workshop insolvency analysis argues that optionality may fit Europe's diverse insolvency systems better than one-size-fits-all harmonisation.

• Oxford Business Law Blog - “The EU Inc - Half European, Fully Digital, and Genuinely Innovative” (27 May 2026)

  Jessica Schmidt and Christoph Teichmann on the Article 4 national-law gap-fill, specialised chambers, digital share transfers, and codetermination tied to the employees' actual place of work.

  Working paper: ECGI Law Working Paper No. 922/2026

• European Law Blog - “Article 114 TFEU: The wrong choice for the 28th regime” (19 May 2026)

  Thomas Jaeger and Adnan Tokić argue that Article 114 TFEU is the wrong standalone legal basis for an autonomous EU Inc. form, directly mapping to the legal-basis question now visible in Council.

• Oxford Business Law Blog - “Completing the EU Inc Regime: A VC-Gated Startup Sandbox” (28 April 2026)

  Jesús Alfaro Águila-Real proposes a time-limited Startup Sandbox Module inside EU Inc., gated by recognised venture-capital participation.

• Kluwer International Tax Blog — “The EU 28th Regime for Innovative Companies Needs a Dual-Instrument Architecture”

  Dennis Weber argues that a complete 28th regime needs both a company-law regulation and a tax directive, and maps out what the tax side could include.

• Oxford Business Law Blog - “Build It and They Will Come? Why EU Inc Needs a Pilot”

  Silvie Rohr's pilot-mechanism argument for testing EU Inc. in live cross-border use before the regime is expanded or locked in.

• ECIPE - “Europe's ‘EU Inc.’ Is a Step Forward”

  Matthias Bauer's constructive companion to his more sceptical 28th-regime analysis: EU Inc. as a first pillar, but not a complete answer to tax, labour, insolvency, and contract-law fragmentation.

• Corporate Finance Lab - “The EU Inc. Proposal: how far does it really go?”

  Academic-practice commentary on the proposal's actual reach and the limits of what a company-law-only regime can solve.

• Swisscore - “28th Regime? Let's call it EU Inc. as of now”

  Swiss Brussels-policy perspective on the Commission's EU Inc. framing and startup-policy relevance beyond EU Member States.

Professional analysis (law firms & industry)

A short curated selection, not an exhaustive list.

• Taylor Wessing — “EU Inc. – The 28th Regime”

  Practical legal commentary on how the proposal would change company formation and cross-border scaling.

• Stibbe — “EU proposal for a regulation on the 28th regime corporate legal framework”

  Law-firm analysis focused on the legal mechanics and likely negotiation issues in the proposal text.

• Liedekerke - “EU Inc. - The 28th Regime”

  Belgian practitioner analysis with useful detail on designated national forms, bilingual articles of association, transfer rules, and the proposed EU employee stock option regime.

• Eubelius - “The EU Inc.: the European Commission's proposal for a 28th corporate regime”

  Benelux-focused overview of COM(2026) 321, including the Belgian BV/SRL fit and the open question of preventive control.

• Irish Legal News - “EU-Inc and the 28th regime - a new legal framework for Europe?”

  Irish legal-market analysis. Useful context as Ireland takes over the Council Presidency in H2 2026 and inherits the file after Cyprus.

• Schoenherr — “EU Inc.: The 28th Regime Corporate Legal Framework”

  Practical analysis of the Commission's EU Inc. proposal, with the clearest practitioner-level explanation so far of Article 4 national-law fallback: the official file is COM(2026) 321, while Schoenherr's URL says COM(2026) 322. Maps how the same EU Inc. label can rest on different national substrates such as GmbH, FlexCo, or Kft.

• VanLoman — “EU Inc.: tax implications”

  Tax-focused commentary that fills the current resources gap on conversion, structuring, and cross-border tax consequences.

• Freshfields — “EU Inc.: the insolvency provisions of the Commission's draft 28th regime proposal”

  Deep-dive on the proposal's insolvency provisions and the creditor-protection issues likely to matter during negotiations.

• CFE Tax Advisers Europe — Tax Top 5 (13 April 2026)

  Industry-body roundup covering the emerging tax dimension around the 28th-regime debate.

Legislative process

• Council of the EU — Company Law Working Party

  Technical examination of the Commission proposal is under way. Working Party sessions have been held on 17 April, 27 April, 6-7 May, 18 May, and 2 June, with no public standalone readout published so far. Ministers held the first political debate at COMPET on 28 May. Further Working Party sessions are scheduled for 11, 17, and 25 June, then 2, 8, and 23 July 2026.

  Key links: 2 June agenda CM 2921/26 - 11 June meeting page - 17 June meeting page - 25 June meeting page - 2 July meeting page - 8 July meeting page - 23 July meeting page

  No public central hub exists for every working-party item. Monitor the Council press releases and the published document register when agendas or notes surface.

• PublicPolicy.net EU Briefing - JURI calendar (29 May 2026)

  Secondary Brussels-policy source for the newly visible Parliament timetable: Repasi draft report on 26 June, shadow amendments due 17 July, JURI mandate vote expected in September, and plenary still tbc after an earlier October slot was downgraded.

  Use alongside the official OEIL procedure file.

• Advisory-body track - EESC and Committee of the Regions

  The formal EESC consultation was triggered by CM 2668/26. The Committee of the Regions has appointed Roberta Angelilli as rapporteur; both advisory opinions are expected in the July–September window and will enter the legislative record.

  Key link: EESC consultation CM 2668/26

Explainers

• Short explainer video (YouTube)

  A good starting point to share with founders and investors who want the “why” in minutes.