For many years, paper was the main format for the registration of companies. The Digitalisation Directive, adopted in 2019, obliged European Union (EU) Member States to provide founders with the option to form private companies digitally. Although for Lithuania, where online formation of legal entities had already existed even before 2019, these regulatory developments did not bring about radical change, they forced the national legislator to introduce the required amendments. This article aims at studying the provisions of the Digitalisation Directive and the results of its implementation in Lithuania to suggest possible improvements in the online registration of companies. The laws of both EU jurisdictions (Estonia, Latvia, and Poland) and one non-EU jurisdiction (Ukraine) with experience of online registration of companies are investigated in comparison with Lithuanian law. In addition, the results of a survey Among Lithuanian law firms are presented and contribute to the analysis and interpretation of the legislation at hand. The article’s conclusions about the state of implementation of the Digitalisation Directive and the recommended steps beyond the Directive’s transposition provide for further enhancement of statutes and practices in this area.

多年来，纸质文件一直是公司注册的主要形式。2019 年通过的数字化指令要求欧盟 (EU) 成员国为创始人提供以数字方式组建私营公司的选择。尽管对于立陶宛来说，在 2019 年之前就已经存在法律实体的在线组建，但这些监管发展并没有带来根本性的变化，但它们迫使国家立法者进行了必要的修正。本文旨在研究数字化指令的规定及其在立陶宛的实施结果，以建议对公司在线注册的可能改进。两个欧盟司法管辖区（爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、和波兰）和一个具有在线公司注册经验的非欧盟司法管辖区（乌克兰）与立陶宛法律进行了比较。此外，还介绍了立陶宛律师事务所的调查结果，并有助于分析和解释手头的立法。文章关于数字化指令实施状况的结论以及指令转换后的建议步骤进一步加强了该领域的法规和实践。