The Legal Regulation of Crowdfunding in the European Union

The paper examines the provisions of the current European Union legislation in the field of crowdfunding in order to establish the features of the legal regulation of the issue in question. The author examines the prerequisites for the adoption of the first special acts regulating crowdfunding at the level of the European Union. The paper designates the scope of regulation of the basic act on European crowdfunding–Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 October 2020 on European providers of crowdfunding services for businesses, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 and Directive (EU) 2019/1937. It also describes the basic requirements for the providers of crowdfunding services, the rules for the provision of crowdfunding services in the territory of the European Union and highlights the procedures necessary to implement the provisions of the Regulation under consideration. It is noted that the structure of crowdfunding regulation within the European Union is not uniform, crowdfunding activities are cross-border, and certain forms of crowdfunding are not subject to regulation by existing regulations.

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