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The Commission shall, no later than 1 February 2027, carry out an evaluation of this Directive, including an evaluation of the implementation of the provisions on employee information, consultation and participation in the context of cross-border operations, including an assessment of the rules on the proportion of employee representatives in the administrative body of the company resulting from the cross-border operation, and of the effectiveness of the safeguards regarding negotiations of employee participation rights, taking into consideration the dynamic nature of companies growing cross-border, and shall present a report to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on the findings of that evaluation, in particular considering the possible need to introduce a harmonised framework on board level employee representation in Union law, accompanied, where appropriate, by a legislative proposal. Member States shall provide the Commission with the information necessary for the preparation of that report, in particular by providing data on the number of cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions, their duration and related costs, data on the cases in which a pre-operation certificate was refused, as well as statistical aggregated data on the number of negotiations on employee participation rights in cross-border operations. The Member States shall also provide the Commission with data on the functioning and effects of jurisdiction rules applicable in cross-border operations.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-18 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.