Where a European Company is formed by means of a merger and at least one participating company loses its own legal existence and is not directly represented by a member of the special negotiating body, the latter shall include, in addition to the seats allocated in accordance with article L. 2352-3, one or more additional seats.
However, regardless of the number of companies involved, the number of additional members may not exceed 20% of the total number of members determined in application of Article L. 2352-3. If the number of additional seats is less than the number of companies losing their own legal existence and having no employees designated as members of the special negotiating body, they are allocated to these companies in descending order of their workforce. If this order successively includes two companies with their registered office in the same country, the next additional seat is allocated to the company with the next lowest number of employees in a different country.
The number of employees represented by each member of the special negotiating body is determined in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree.