EU Inc Registration: How It Works, and What It Will Cost

Can you register an EU Inc yet?

Not yet. EU Inc is a proposal, not a live company form. The European Commission published the draft 28th Regime regulation on 18 March 2026, and it still needs agreement between the European Parliament and the Council before anyone can register. Based on the Commission's own timetable, registration is expected to open around 2027-2028.

So if you searched for "EU Inc registration" hoping to sign up today, the honest answer is that the portal does not exist yet. The good news: the EU company that comes closest to EU Inc, an Estonian OU formed online, can be registered right now, and converting or aligning it later is a core aim of the regime. We cover both paths below.

The proposed EU Inc registration process

The draft regulation describes a digital-first registration built to remove the friction founders hit today. As proposed, the steps would look like this:

1. Choose your member state. You freely pick the EU country in which the EU Inc is incorporated, with full access to the single market either way.
2. Verify your identity once. Identity is confirmed digitally through eIDAS, the EU's electronic identification standard, with no in-person notary trip.
3. Submit your details once. Under a "once-only" data principle you enter your company information a single time through an EU-level interface, instead of resubmitting it to several authorities.
4. Use the EU standard template. Standardised articles of association mean you are not drafting bespoke documents for each country.
5. Get registered, EU-wide. The target is formation in around 48 hours (five working days without the standard template), producing an EU Company Certificate that banks, investors and registries recognise across all 27 member states.

These figures come straight from the European Commission's proposal. You can read the primary source on the Commission's own page, EU Inc: a new harmonised corporate legal regime, and the launch announcement, EU Inc: making business easier in the European Union.

What you would need to register

The proposal keeps the requirements deliberately light, which is the whole point of a digital, startup-ready form:

• A verified digital identity for each founder (through eIDAS), rather than notarised paper.
• Basic company information: name, registered member state, directors and shareholders, and your business activity.
• No minimum capital. You would not lock up any share capital to incorporate. In place of a capital buffer, distributions must pass a balance-sheet and solvency test.
• Standardised articles of association, supplied as an EU template you adopt rather than draft.

What EU Inc registration will cost

The proposal sets a clear target: registration for at most €100, with no minimum capital to deposit. That is a deliberate contrast with the EU's older pan-European company, the Societas Europaea, which needs €120,000 of capital and never reached startups.

Two caveats. First, the €100 is the proposed cap for the official registration, not the final figure, which is fixed when the law is adopted. Second, that is the state fee, separate from any help you pay a provider for. Until EU Inc is live, the real cost question is what it takes to register an existing EU company today, which is what we quote you.

Where you register an EU Inc

An EU Inc would not be a "stateless" company. You would choose one member state of incorporation and register there through the EU-level interface. The country you pick still matters, because anything the regulation does not cover is filled by that country's national company law (a German EU Inc would sit on GmbH law, for example), and because tax follows where the company is genuinely run. We explain that split in EU Inc taxes.

Behind the scenes, the national business registers are already linked through the EU's Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), which is what lets one registration be recognised everywhere. That existing plumbing is a big reason the 28th Regime can promise EU-wide standing from day one.

How to register an EU company today

Because EU Inc registration is not open, founders who need an entity now register the closest existing option, an EU company they can form fully online. The process with us is simple:

1. Tell us your plan. Where you live, where your customers are, and what you are building. This is the free plan, no commitment.
2. We recommend a jurisdiction. We match you to the right country and company type on tax, cost, setup speed and how remote you can stay.
3. Licensed counsel files it. We handle identity checks, articles of association and the registration itself with regulated local partners.
4. Your company is registered in days. An Estonian company is often ready in about three days, then you can open banking, register for VAT and start trading.

When EU Inc launches, you revisit it from a clean, EU-based starting point. To choose a country first, compare all 43 jurisdictions on cost, tax and setup time.

Registering as a non-EU resident

You do not need to be an EU citizen or resident to use any of this. Reaching non-EU founders is a stated aim of the 28th Regime, and it is already possible today: most EU companies can be registered remotely by non-residents, with the cross-border identity and address requirements handled for you. If you are building from outside the EU and want a credible European base, this is one of the cleanest routes in, both now and once EU Inc opens. For a full walkthrough, see EU Inc for non-EU residents.

Primary sources

• European Commission: EU Inc, a new harmonised corporate legal regime (proposal, documents and factsheet).
• European Commission news: EU Inc, making business easier in the European Union (18 March 2026).