Traduction de «fusion directe » (Français → Anglais) :

The requirements concerning disclosure of draft terms of merger in cross-border mergers pursuant to Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies should be similar to those applicable to domestic mergers and divisions pursuant to Directive 78/855/EEC and Sixth Council Directive 82/891/EEC of 17 December 1982 based on Article 54(3)(g) of the Treaty, concerning the division of public limited liability companies

2. However, the rules in force concerning employee participation, if any, in the Member State where the company resulting from the cross-border merger has its registered office shall not apply, where at least one of the merging companies has, in the six months before the publication of the draft terms of the cross-border merger as referred to in Article 6, an average number of employees that exceeds 500 and is operating under an employee participation system within the meaning of Article 2(k) of Directive 2001/86/EC, or where the national law applicable to the company resulting from the cross-border merger does not

This Directive shall apply to mergers of limited liability companies formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Community, provided at least two of them are governed by the laws of different Member States (hereinafter referred to as cross-border mergers).

In order to facilitate cross-border merger operations, it should be laid down that, unless this Directive provides otherwise, each company taking part in a cross-border merger, and each third party concerned, remains subject to the provisions and formalities of the national law which would be applicable in the case of a national merger.

If employees have participation rights in one of the merging companies under the circumstances set out in this Directive and, if the national law of the Member State in which the company resulting from the cross-border merger has its registered office does not provide for the same level of participation as operated in the relevant merging companies, including in committees of the supervisory board that have decision-making powers, or does not provide for the same entitlement to exercise rights for employees of establishments resulting from the cross-border merger, the participation of employees in the company resulting from the cross-bor ...[+++]der merger and their involvement in the definition of such rights are to be regulated.

As an exception to this general principle, the principles and procedures concerning employee participation laid down in the European company (SE) Regulation and Directive should apply if at least one of the merging companies has an average number of employees in the six months before the publication of the draft terms of the cross-border merger that exceeds 500 and is operating under an employee participation system, or where the national law applicable to the company resulting from the cross-border merger does not provide for at least the same level of participation as operated in the relevant merging companies, measured by reference to ...[+++] the proportion of members of the administrative or of the supervisory organ or their committees or of the management group, which covers the profit units of the company, subject to employee representation, or provide for employees of establishments of the company resulting from the cross-border merger and situated in other Member States the same entitlement to exercise participation rights as is enjoyed by those employees employed in the Member State where the registered office of the company resulting from the cross-border merger is situated.