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COMMERCIAL LAW AND TOURISM
I PART, COMMERCIAL LAW

Prof. Giuseppe Antonio Policaro
Course Code EC0034
Subject Code: IUS/04
8 ECTS, 64 hours
Location: Novara

Teaching language
Italian.

Content of the course
PART I – COMMERCIAL LAW, I
1. The entrepreneur and the enterprise.
2. Partnerships, copartnerships, limited partnerships.
PART II – COMMERCIAL LAW, II
1. Stock company and limited company.
2. Cooperative company.
3. Groups of companies.
4. Fusion and other extraordinary transactions.

Teaching materials
It is essential an updated edition of the italian Civil Code and of the complementary acts.      
College textbooks:

G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Diritto commerciale. I. Diritto dell’impresa, UTET, Torino, ult. ediz.;

G. COTTINO, Diritto societario, CEDAM, Padova, ult. ediz.;

Learning objectives

The course amis to give the fundamental knowledge concerning the entrepreneur and the enterprise, the companies and the main contracts connected to business activities.

Prerequisites
Proven knowledge of the Civil Law.

Teaching methods
Lessons, with suggestions for further reading and discussion.

Examination
Practice exercises and exam simulation.
The exam is oral; anyway the attendant students may pass the exam with written selections.

Programma esteso
PART I – COMMERCIAL LAW I
The enterpreneur (art. 2082 c.c.)
The farmer and the trader
The small entrepreneur
The public enterprise
The tourism entrepreneur
The rules of the code of tourism
The beginning and the end of the business activity
The rules about the trader
The company and its selling
The GEIE
The business networks
The distinctive features (general principles)

The company
Company, association, consortia
The ordinary partnership
The partnership “in nome collettivo”
The partnership “in accomandita semplice”

PART II – COMMERCIAL LAW II
The stock company
The deed of partnership
The stock company with a sole partner
The assets intended for specific business affairs
The partners contributions
The shares and their trading
The financial instruments
The shareholders' meeting
The management and coordination of companies
The directors
The board of internal auditors
The accounting controls
The external audit
The two-tier system and the one-tier system
The balance sheet
The modification of the deed of partnership
The bonds
The limited liability companies
The company “in accomandita per azioni”
The dissolution and winding-up of companies
The extraordinary transactions
The cooperative companies (general principles).