Rz. 66
Das am 1.1.2021 (vorläufig) in Kraft getretene Handels- und Kooperationsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union und dem Vereinigten Königreich enthält unmittelbar keine Regelungen zum Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht. In dem Kapitel "Dienstleistungen und Investitionen" des umfangreichen Abkommens finden sich allerdings einige Vorschriften, die auch für die Anerkennung von Gesellschaften von Bedeutung sein könnten. Die maßgeblichen Regelungen des Abkommens lauten wie folgt:
Zitat
Title II, Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Services and Investment
Article SERVIN.1.2: Definitions
For the purposes of this Title: (…)
(g) "enterprise" means a legal person or a branch or a representative office of a legal person;
(h) "establishment" means the setting up or the acquisition of a legal person, including through capital participation, or the creation of a branch or representative office in the territory of a Party, with a view to creating or maintaining lasting economic links;
(j) "investor of a Party" means a natural or legal person of a Party that seeks to establish, is establishing or has established an enterprise in accordance with point (h) in the territory of the other Party;
(k) "legal person of a Party" means:
(i) for the Union: (A) a legal person constituted or organised under the law of the Union or at least one of its Member States and engaged, in the territory of the Union, in substantive business operations, understood by the Union, in line with its notification of the Treaty establishing the European Community to the WTO (WT/REG39/1), as equivalent to the concept of "effective and continuous link" with the economy of a Member State enshrined in Article 54 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU); and (B) (…);
(ii) for the United Kingdom: (...