Judgment_paragraph 27 · Centros Ltd v Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen (C-212/97)

27That being so, the fact that a national of a Member State who wishes to set up a company chooses to form it in the Member State whose rules of company law seem to him the least restrictive and to set up branches in other Member States cannot, in itself, constitute an abuse of the right of establishment. The right to form a company in accordance with the law of a Member State and to set up branches in other Member States is inherent in the exercise, in a single market, of the freedom of establishment guaranteed by the Treaty.

Centros Ltd v Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen (C-212/97)

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