What is EU INC? The complete guide to the 28th regime
A plain-English guide to what EU INC is, why the 28th regime exists, and what it means for companies building in Europe.
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Coming Q1 2027
Pan-European
Pan-European
Company Formation
48 hours to register · 27 EU countries · 1 company, 1 legal entity
INC48 files your EU INC — the new European company that works in all 27 EU countries. One simple online application. No notary appointments, no subsidiaries, no translated paperwork. Your business is up and recognised across Europe in under 48 hours.
Free to join — no obligation
Priority access at launch
Pan-European by design
Your EU INC is at home in every one of them
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇷 Greece
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇲🇹 Malta
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇷🇴 Romania
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
Why it matters
One European company instead of twenty-seven different ones
For decades, doing business across Europe meant picking a country, learning its bureaucracy, then opening subsidiaries or re-incorporating every time you crossed a border. The 28th regime ends that. EU INC is one pan-European company — filed once, recognised in every member state, run from anywhere.
One legal form, 27 countries
An EU INC is automatically recognised in every member state — no re-registration, no translated Articles of Association, no duplicated filings.
Digital-first registry
Registration, share issuance, board changes and shareholder updates handled through a single EU digital registry. No notary chains, no paper.
Share ownership, done right
Clean rules for shares, co-owners and employee ownership — the same set of rules everywhere, whether you're running a small family business or raising from investors.
Cross-border by design
Selling in France, hiring in Spain, working from Portugal? All completely normal — no subsidiaries, no holding companies, no legal contortions. EU INC is built to cross borders from day one.
48 hours to first filing
No notary appointments. No paper chase across ministries. Fill in one online form, pay one fee — and your EU INC is registered in under 48 hours.
Lower running costs
One accountant, one annual filing, one set of rules to learn. Stop paying for parallel compliance, parallel bookkeeping and parallel corporate secretaries in every country you operate in.
How INC48 works
From signup to EU INC, in four steps
INC48 is building the end-to-end flow so that when the EU INC regulation goes live, filing takes minutes — not weeks.
Join the waitlist
Tell us a little about your business and where you operate. We'll line up everything you need so your EU INC is ready to file the moment registration opens.
Prepare your company
We'll help you structure share classes, option pool and registered office — mapped to EU INC defaults so there's nothing to redo later.
File with the EU registry
When filings open in Q1 2027, INC48 submits your EU INC directly to the EU digital business registry — one filing, valid across all 27 member states in 48 hours.
Operate anywhere in Europe
Cap-table, board resolutions, share issuances and annual filings — all managed from a single pan-European dashboard.
Side by side
EU INC vs national incorporation vs Delaware C-Corp
If you're choosing a legal home for your European startup, these are the three real options. Here's how they compare.
| Feature | EU INC | National (e.g. GmbH, SAS, BV) | Delaware C-Corp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valid across 27 EU states | ✓ Out of the box | ✗ Subsidiary needed | ✗ Needs EU subsidiary |
| Digital-first registry | ✓ | Varies by country | ✓ |
| Notary required | ✗ No | Often yes | ✗ No |
| Standardised cap-table / options | ✓ | ✗ Patchwork | ✓ |
| Friendly to EU VC & grants | ✓ | ✓ | Partial |
| Friendly to U.S. VC | Expected | Friction | ✓ |
| Cross-border employees | First-class | Complex | Complex |
| Lifetime compliance cost | Low | Medium–High | Medium |
Want the full breakdown? Read Moving from Delaware to EU INC and EU INC vs national incorporation.
By the numbers
Why a single European company form matters
27
EU countries · 1 legal entity
48h
to register your EU INC
450M+
consumers in the single market
Q1 2027
expected EU INC launch
Built for
Who EU INC is for
Online sellers, service businesses, small teams, big ambitions — EU INC is for anyone doing business across European borders.
Online sellers & e-commerce
Ship and sell to customers in every EU country without opening a company in each one. One EU INC, one invoicing entity, one clean set of terms.
Agencies, consultancies & freelancers
Invoice clients across the EU under one clean company — no separate entity, no stack of VAT registrations for every country you work in.
Growing businesses going Europe-wide
Expanding into your fourth, seventh or seventeenth country? Instead of opening a subsidiary every time, trade everywhere under a single EU INC.
Remote & distributed teams
A team in Lisbon, Warsaw and Berlin shouldn't need a Luxembourg holding company to function. EU INC handles cross-border teams natively — no workarounds.
Startups raising investment
Skip the Delaware flip. Standardised cap-table, SAFEs, option pools and preferred shares — predictable enough for EU and U.S. investors to underwrite.
Non-EU businesses building in Europe
A clean, recognisable European company — without having to pick one member state and defend that choice to every future customer, bank or partner.
From the blog
Everything you need to know about EU INC
Deep dives, comparisons and 28th-regime updates — written in plain English, not legalese.
Moving from Delaware to EU INC: how to reverse the flip
You flipped to Delaware and now EU INC is coming. Mechanics, tax events and timeline of reversing the flip — for companies already incorporated in the U.S.
Read guide
EU INC timeline: when will registration actually open?
From the 28th-regime initiative to adoption — what has to happen before the first EU INC can be filed in Q1 2027.
See timeline
Questions
Frequently asked questions about EU INC
A quick primer. See the full EU INC FAQ for more.
EU INC is a proposed unified European company legal form — commonly referred to as the 28th regime, because it would sit alongside the corporate laws of the 27 existing member states. A company incorporated as an EU INC would be automatically recognised in every EU country, using one set of rules, one registry, and one corporate governance framework.
The 28th-regime regulation is progressing through the European legislative process, with first filings expected in Q1 2027 once the regulation is adopted and the EU digital business registry is operational. Join the INC48 waitlist and we'll notify you the moment filings open and put you at the front of the queue.
No. The current drafts treat EU INC as open to applicants regardless of nationality, comparable to how a non-U.S. company can incorporate a Delaware C-Corp. Final residency and KYC rules will depend on the adopted regulation.
Yes — EU INC is being designed to support redomiciliation, so an existing national company (GmbH, SAS, BV, Ltd, etc.) or a Delaware C-Corp can convert into an EU INC without dissolving and starting over. Exact tax mechanics will depend on the final regulation; INC48 will guide you through the conversion when filings open.
INC48 is a pan-European company formation and filing platform, purpose-built for the 28th-regime EU INC. Our job is to turn the regulation into a fast, digital, easy-to-use product — so incorporating an EU INC takes 48 hours rather than weeks, and stays compliant automatically over time.