Recital 28

Directive (EU) 2025/25 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2024 amending Directives 2009/102/EC and (EU) 2017/1132 as regards further expanding and upgrading the use of digital tools and processes in company law (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(28) The digital EU power of attorney established under this Directive is without prejudice to national rules on legal and statutory representation or any other types of powers of attorney. The digital EU power of attorney should only exist in digital form and it should be authenticated by using trust services as referred to in Regulation (EU) No 910/2014.While, in accordance with Directive (EU) 2017/1132, information on legal representatives is required to be disclosed in the business registers, Member States should be free to choose whether to require that a specific EU digital power of attorney is filed, be it with the business register or with a different register in accordance with national law. In order to overcome language barriers and facilitate their use, the templates for an EU Company Certificate and for the digital EU power of attorney should be made available on the portal in all official languages of the Union.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.