Professor Janet Dine of the University of Essex describes the provisions of the proposed thirteenth directive on takeovers put forward by the European Commission (OJ 1997 C378/10, COM (97) 565 final – 96/0341 (COD)). Note published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London