<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>KluwerLawOnline.com - European Company Law</title> <link>https://kluwerlawonline.com/Journals/European+Company+Law/671</link> <description>Provides a legal information service answering all the questions likely to arise in the day-to-day work of a company lawyer.</description> <language>en-gb</language> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs> <item> <title>Editorial: Modernization of Dutch Company Law</title> <link>https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025010</link> <category>European Company Law</category> <description>Volume 22 Online ISSN 1572-4999</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025010</guid> </item> <item> <title>Article: Unveiling the Influence: The Dynamics of Corporate Group Structures</title> <link>https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025011</link> <category>European Company Law</category> <description><p class="MsoNormal"><i>This paper explores the intricate dynamics of corporate group structures, focusing on the influence of corporate power and the potential risks and inefficiencies associated with managerialism. It begins by defining corporate groups, highlighting the varying definitions across jurisdictions and contexts. The paper then examines the reasons for the formation of corporate groups, emphasizing benefits such as asset partitioning and risk management. It also addresses the challenges posed by corporate groups, including issues of power concentration, agency problems, and opportunism. The analysis underscores the need for a more coherent legal framework that aligns with the economic realities of modern corporate structures. By advocating for an enterprise approach the paper argues for enhanced regulatory oversight and state intervention justified by the concession theory of the corporation. This shift aims to ensure a more equitable distribution of the benefits and burdens of corporate activities, contributing to a fairer corporate landscape.<o:p></o:p></i></p>Volume 22 Online ISSN 1572-4999</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025011</guid> </item> <item> <title>Article: ‘Not Everything that Counts Can Be Counted’: The Flaws of the EU Rules on ESG Information</title> <link>https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025012</link> <category>European Company Law</category> <description><p class="MsoNormal"><i>The EU has introduced various ESG information obligations for large companies and financial intermediaries, hoping to indirectly promote virtuous behaviour. The legislation is spread across a multiplicity of regulatory sources and concerns heterogeneous matters: investor protection and consumer preferences (the SFDR, Delegated Regulation under MIFID II, Listing Act, and Green Claims Directive), disclosure obligations (the NFRD and subsequently Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)), and company duties (the Taxonomy Regulation and, more recently, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)). However, transparency in ESG policies is much more difficult to achieve than in financial information, given the descriptive nature of sustainability information and the lack of standards and well-established operating practices. Comparing the main provisions of European legislation regulating corporate sustainability information, whether mandatory or not, this study aims to show how these provisions are gradually becoming closer to the financial information regime. Despite this, enforcement is weak, because the latter regime is heavily dependent on the choices of individual Member States, which are left to define the system of remedies and sanctions. Perhaps this approach is a compromise, given the differences between the sustainability policies of various national governments, but its transnational nature means that this phenomenon will require a higher level of harmonization.<o:p></o:p></i></p>Volume 22 Online ISSN 1572-4999</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025012</guid> </item> <item> <title>Case Note: The Shell CO2 Ruling, Considered Partly Through a Group Company Law Perspective</title> <link>https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025013</link> <category>European Company Law</category> <description><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>Volume 22 Online ISSN 1572-4999</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:01:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArticle/European+Company+Law/22.2/EUCL2025013</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>