To permit
and facilitate corporate mobility in the European Union, there
are at the moment two projects. There are a proposal for a
directive on cross-border mergers of public limited companies
of November 2003 (replacing the former proposal on a tenth
company law directive, withdrawn in December 2001) and the
draft proposal for the transfer of registered office with
a change in applicable law of 1997 (fourteenth company law
directive).
Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited
liability companies