Listed below are EU-level legal instruments governing Board-level Employee Representation rights for certain EU corporate forms or transactions:

• European Company (Societas Europaea (SE)) Directive 2001/86/EC
• European Company (SE) Regulation 2157/2001
• European Cooperative Society (Societas Cooperativa (SCE)) Directive 2003/72/EC
• European Cooperative Society (Societas Cooperativa (SCE)) Regulation 1435/2003
• Cross-Border Merger (CBM) Directive 2005/29/EC (not in force)
• Cross-Border Merger (CBM) Revision Directive 2017/1132
• Cross-Border Conversions, Mergers and Divisions Directive 2019/2121 (amending Directive 2017/1132)
• Related EU documents / reports can be downloaded from the EU Commission website.

In transposing Directive 2001/86/EC, EU member states were granted quite a number of choices. Visit the Comparison Tool on this worker-participation.eu to:

• see how the SE Directive has been transposed in different European Economic Area (EEA) member states;
• gain information on key aspects (e.g. the selection of the national representatives on the special negotiating body and the standard rules); and
• make individualised comparisons between countries and criteria.