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European Company Law; European Economic Community; Single European Act in 1986; European Company Statute
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Towards A European Company Law, Dominique Carreau, William L. Lee
Towards A European Company Law, Dominique Carreau, William L. Lee
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The prospect of creating a genuine "European" company law was raised as early as 1959, just two years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community. Curiously, the initiative was taken by practitioners and scholars and not by the business community, which expressed little interest in such an innovation at that time. The first steps were taken by the French Notaries Public who, at their 57th Annual Congress, suggested that it might be desirable "to adopt, by means of an international convention, a comprehensive company law, probably restricted to societes anonymes (large, publicly held [French] …