1. This heading captures Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE) (OJ L 294/1), which is supplemented by Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 (OJ L 294/22), on the involvement of employees.
2. In Article 7 of the SE Statute expressions equivalent to “central administration” are used in most languages (eg, “Hauptverwaltung,” “administration centrale,” “administración central,” “amministrazione centrale,” “administração central”). “Central administration” was also used in the Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on the Statute for a European Company, COM(91) 174 final, 16 May 1991, OJ C176, 1 (Article 5(1)). This expression, which is more familiar to EC law than “head office” (see Article 48, EC Treaty), will be used in the following.