Recital 31

(31) Companies’ instruments of constitution are sometimes drawn up in two or more languages, one of them often being an official language of the Union which is broadly understood by the largest possible number of cross-border users. Companies also often voluntarily publish a translation of their instrument of constitution into such a language on their websites. In addition, an increasing amount of company information contained in the instrument of constitution is separately available and easily identifiable with the assistance of multilingual labels through the system of interconnection of registers. Company information also needs to be stored in business registers in a machine-readable and searchable format or as structured data, in line with provisions introduced by Directive (EU) 2019/1151, which will facilitate machine translation of such data. These developments make it easier to consult and use such company information in cross-border situations without the need for translation. Therefore, this Directive aims to simplify the cross-border use of company information by reducing the need for translation, in particular certified translation.

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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.