An SE may be formed by a merger of national public limited liability companies; by encouraging the setting-up of a holding company by a Member State to public limited liability companies or limited liability companies; by transforming a national public limited liability company; as a dependent company within the meaning of the third paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation No 2157/2001.

Documents to be submitted:

• application form SE1 (to be certified);
• the founding treaty;
• the statutes;
• the agreement of each member of the Council to take office;
• the agreement of each member of the Management Board to take office (if the consent is not already included in the application form SE1) (the signatures must be certified);
• a receipt or a copy thereof, or a printout of an online bank payment, or information regarding the payment of the State fee.

The documents must be completed/drawn up in Latvian.

Deadline for the submission of documents in the Enterprise Register: not specified.

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