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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-economic-interest-grouping-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1299",
  "legislation_title": "The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-economic-interest-grouping-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For Article 1 substitute—\n“Article 1\n1 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).\n4 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.\n5 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": "Words in reg. 33 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Companies and Statutory Auditors etc. (Consequential Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/523), regs. 1(2), 8(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Companies and Statutory Auditors etc. (Consequential Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/523), regs. 1(2), 8(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Companies and Statutory Auditors etc. (Consequential Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/523), regs. 1(2), 8(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 33 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Companies and Statutory Auditors etc. (Consequential Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/523), regs. 1(2), 8(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ L No. 199, 31.07.1985, p.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 33 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1299/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:02.148016+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."
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