This book aims to be a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the procedures and requirements involved in setting up companies in the European Community. It includes coverage of the relatively new structure of Economic Interest Groupings, and changes resulting from German unification. The author describes the various types of company that can be set up in each country, together with the legal procedures and costs involved. The book includes a list of translations of the various legal and technical terms that are used in each of the relevant languages.