{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1132/article-86b",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1132/article-86b.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2017/1132",
  "legislation_title": "Directive (EU) 2017/1132 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 relating to certain aspects of company law (codification) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1132",
  "path": "article/86b",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "86b",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Chapter:\n(1) ‘ company ’ means a limited liability company of a type listed in Annex II that carries out a cross-border conversion;\n(2) ‘ cross-border conversion ’ means an operation whereby a company, without being dissolved or wound up or going into liquidation, converts the legal form under which it is registered in a departure Member State into a legal form of the destination Member State, as listed in Annex II, and transfers at least its registered office to the destination Member State, while retaining its legal personality;\n(3) ‘ departure Member State ’ means a Member State in which a company is registered prior to a cross-border conversion;\n(4) ‘ destination Member State ’ means a Member State in which a converted company is registered as a result of a cross-border conversion;\n(5) ‘ converted company ’ means a company formed in a destination Member State as a result of a cross-border conversion.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2017/1132/article/86b",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:32.484711+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}