This book is a new edition of a book previously published by de Gruyter. Like the previous editions, this third edition features the full text of every piece of adopted European legislation affecting companies and the financial sector, including directives, regulations, reccommendations and other relevant instruments. It is divided into sections on banking law, capital movement, company law, consumer protection, enterprise law, insurance law and securities regulation.The purpose of this text is to offer an easily accessible, properly organized and updated collection of all European Instruments that have been enacted in the above fields. Both in legal practice and in academia the need often arises to consult European legislation with the knowledge that it is up-to-date and consolidated. This edition is made even more valuable by the inclusion of section-by-section case commentaries on almost all of the relevant European Court of justice cases and many rulings from national courts, thus providing a useful guide to interpretation of the various instruments.