Introduction

Council Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (Societas Cooperativa Europaea – SCE)

Legal texts at EUR-LEX in several languages.


Objective

The Community, anxious to ensure equal terms of competition and to contribute to its economic development, should provide cooperatives, which are a form of organisation generally recognised in all Member States, with adequate legal instruments capable of facilitating the development of their cross-border activities. The United Nations has encouraged all governments to ensure a supportive environment in which cooperatives can participate on an equal footing with other forms of enterprise(11).
Preamble (6)

Parties

The European Union, its Member States, physical persons resident in the member states, and legal entities established under the laws of Member States.

Interactions1

To be completed

Issues

See Consultation on the results of the study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE) (2011)

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