# 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), Article 86b: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Chapter:
(1) ‘ company ’ means a limited liability company of a type listed in Annex II that carries out a cross-border conversion;
(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;
(3) ‘ departure Member State ’ means a Member State in which a company is registered prior to a cross-border conversion;
(4) ‘ destination Member State ’ means a Member State in which a converted company is registered as a result of a cross-border conversion;
(5) ‘ converted company ’ means a company formed in a destination Member State as a result of a cross-border conversion.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2017/1132/article/86b (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1132/article-86b
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