{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-2137/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-2137/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1985/2137",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85 of 25 July 1985 on the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1985-2137",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. A European Economic Interest Grouping registered in the United Kingdom immediately before IP completion day—\n(a) is, on IP completion day, converted into a UK Economic Interest Grouping; and\n(b) accordingly, on and after IP completion day, is to be known by that name (see Article 5).\n2. A UK Economic Interest Grouping—\n(a) is a body corporate and continues to be registered as such;\n(b) is, on and after IP completion day, deemed to be formed upon the terms, in the manner and with the effects laid down in this Regulation in relation to such groupings;\n(c) has the capacity, in its own name, to have rights and obligations of all kinds, to make contracts or accomplish other legal acts, and to sue and be sued.\n3. Paragraph 1 does not apply to an outgoing grouping (as to which, see regulation 9 of the EEIG Regulations).\n(4.) In paragraph 3, an “outgoing grouping” means a European Economic Interest Grouping—\n(a) which, immediately before IP completion day, is registered in a Member State pursuant to a transfer of its official address from the United Kingdom to that Member State in accordance with Article 14; but\n(b) whose registration in the United Kingdom has not been terminated before IP completion day.\n(5.) In paragraph 4(a), the reference to Article 14 is a reference to Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2137/85 of 25 July 1985 on the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) as it applied in the European Union immediately before IP completion day.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 33 (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 8(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1985/2137/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:05:32.658106+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."
}