Legal aspects of digitalisation in EU company law

Bohinc, Rado (author)

The article presents legal solutions of the European Union (EU) and Member States (MS) with respect to the digitalisation of company law. We analyse and evaluate the EU’s efforts to overcome the backlog of legislation concerning technological development, with legal solutions in the field of the electronic formation and registration of companies and in shareholders’ communication with company board members. The analysis shows that company law in the EU is lagging behind technological development. Despite ongoing dynamic efforts to modernise it on the EU level, the MS reveal differences in their speed of implementing the EU’s directives. The case of Slovenia shows that while digital tools are in wide use for ensuring transparent data disclosure and publication, along with the realisation of basic corporate governance functions, big differences remain between the minority of companies traded on the regulated market and the majority of companies for which such regulation is deficient

• Language: English
• Keywords: digitalisation, electronic means, block chain technology, company registration, shareholders general meeting, Covid-19 pandemic
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 30.09.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 707-728, 786
• Numbering: Letn. 59, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142952
• UDC: 34:[347.19:061.1EU]-028.274
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.3.707–728
• COBISS.SI-ID: 127971075
• Publication date in RUL: 06.12.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Pravni vidiki digitalizacije v Zakonu EU o gospodarskih družbah

Abstract

Članek predstavlja pravne rešitve Evropske unije (EU) in držav članic (MS) pri digitalizaciji prava gospodarskih družb. Analiziramo in ocenjujemo prizadevanja EU za premostitev zaostankov zakonodaje za tehnološkim razvojem s pravnimi rešitvami na področju elektronskega ustanavljanja in registracije podjetij ter v komunikaciji delničarjev s člani uprave družbe. Analiza kaže, da pravo družb v EU zaostaja za tehnološkim razvojem. Kljub nenehnim dinamičnim prizadevanjem za njegovo posodobitev na ravni EU obstajajo razlike v hitrosti držav članic pri izvajanju direktiv EU. Primer Slovenije kaže, da se digitalna orodja široko uporabljajo za transparentno razkrivanje in objavo podatkov ter za izvajanje osnovnih funkcij korporativnega upravljanja. Vendar pa obstajajo velike razlike med manjšino podjetij, s katerimi se javno trguje, in večino podjetij, za katere je regulacija pomanjkljiv

• Keywords: gospodarske družbe, digitalizacija, elektronska sredstva, tehnologija blokovnih verig, registracija podjetja, skupščina delničarjev, pravo družb, Evropska unija