The Gazette 1973

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

European Communities

Regulations relating to Additional Categories of Quali-

fied Persons mentioned in the Land Act, 1965.

The Directives concerned in S.I. 332/1972 relating to

the above-mentioned Regulations are the following :

(1) No. 1323

being a Council Directive of 2 April

1962 which lays down detailed provision for the attain-

ment of freedom of establishment in agriculture in the

territory of Member States in respect of those who have

been employed as paid agricultural workers in other

Member States for a continuous period of two years.

(2)

No. 1326

being a Council Directive of 2 April

1962 which abolishes restrictions on rights of nationals

of any Member State to acquire farms in respect of

agricultural holdings which have been abandoned or

left uncultivated for two years on the ground of freedom

of establishment.

(3) No. 190/1967

being a Council Directive of 25

July 1967 which grants to agricultural workers who are

members of one Member State and who are working in

another Member State the right to change their location

and transfer their occupation from one place to another.

(4)

No. 263/1967

being a Council Directive of 24

October 1967 granting the right of freedom of estab-

lishment and of the free exercise of occupation in the

non-salaried activities of forestry and of exploitation of

timber to nationals of Member States who are self-

employed in forestry and logging.

These Directives are in practice of very limited scope.

COMPANIES and EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ACT

1972

The article at p. 1076 of

The New Law

Journal,

'Company Law in the Common Market', by James Fen-

ton, F.C.I., solicitor, the first in a series dealing with

s.9, European Communities Act 1972, mentioned that

harmonisation of the law is brought about by the issue of

a Directive under Article 54 of the E.E.C. Treaty. The

only Directive so far adopted by Member States is

Directive 151/1968 (adopted 9 March 1968).

The precedent below paraphrases the contents of EEC

Directive 151/1968 and gives the corresponding U.K.

statutory provisions.

E.E.C. DI RECT IVE 151 OF 1968

Number

Substance

of Article

DI RECT I VE

Publicity must be given to the following

matters :

(a) Memorandum and Articles and altera-

tions.

(b) Particulars relating to Directors:

names

dates of appointment and termination

and

whether they can act singly or only

as a board

auditors

(d) Changes in the registered office

(e) The start and end of a winding up,

appointment of liquidator

and

striking of company's name from

U.K. S TATUTES

Companies Act 1968

ss.5(7), 8, 10, 12, s.l43(l) and (4) requires,

inter alia,

the filing of resolutions making

changes

s.200(2) and (4)

Regulation 102 of Table A (Sched. I)

ss.124, 127(1), 149, 156(1) and paragraph 2

of Schedule VI II

s.107(2)

.143(1) a nd (4)(e), 230, 240(a), 274(2),

290(3) and (4), 300(3) and (4)

s.353

Rule 42 — Companies (Winding-up) Rules

1949

European

Communities

Act 1972

ss.9)3), (5)

and (6)

sub.s.9(3)

sub.s.9(l)

sub.s.9(3)