This feasibility study covers seven major objectives. It offers an overview of the main types of foundations in EU Member States; presents estimates of the economic scale of the European foundation sector, also in comparison with the United States; examines the main regulatory differences in the legal treatment of foundations across the EU; estimates cross-border activities as well as barriers and their economic relevance; analyses the importance and cost implications of these barriers; explores possible modalities of eliminating existing barriers; and assesses further possible effects of a European Foundation Statute.
Issue Areas
- Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Publishers
- Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
- Centre for Social Investment at the University of Heidelberg
Funder
- European Commission (EC)
Document Type
- Report/Whitepaper
Language
- English
Geography
- Europe
- North America / United States
Copyright
- Copyright 2007 Centre for Social Investment at the University of Heidelberg, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.