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The central Government, through the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, supports and empowers cooperatives and provides incentives for the formation of new cooperatives organizations and the training of cooperative leaders.

Among the latter, the Association lists the inclusion of cooperative legislation into the commercial code, the provided definition of a cooperative society and the absence of the possibility of associating cooperatives into organizations of interest associations.

The 1994 Cooperative Law reinstated the right to voluntary association of cooperative societies into cooperative unions.

Mentor for students and social collaborator for the community

IDECOOP, FEDECOOP and CODOCOOP operate gender based consensus building programmes within the cooperative movement with support from the Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean and Central America (CCC CA) and the International Cooperative Alliance (ACI), and the agricultural cooperatives are being encouraged to develop hubs based on complementary production lines, with participation by women in some stages of the production cycle.

Cooperation with civil society

The legislative framework for cooperative activities has been created within the last five years on the basis of the civil code and the laws on consumer cooperation (consumer societies, their unions), on agricultural cooperation and on production cooperatives.

(d) Cooperation with the international community

Development of co operation with social bodies of the local community

The law of 1990 introduced new regulations with favourable tax treatment for cooperatives given their social importance and functions.

In addition, cooperative banks are governed by the Members Bank Act of 1995 and housing cooperatives by the Housing Cooperatives Act of 1991.

There are agricultural, consumer (central markets, handicrafts and savings) and investment cooperatives.

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Partnering with civil society

Status and role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends

32. The National Cooperative Council of Hungary reported that after the transformation of the cooperative system, owing to the so called Unified Cooperative Law of 1992, there were some acts restricting the autonomy of cooperatives, primarily the agricultural ones, and in particular, their right to dispose of their properties.

No substantive changes have been made concerning the legal framework of cooperatives in Argentina, but in 1996, the National Institute for Cooperatives was merged with the National Mutual Institute, despite the disapproval of the cooperative movement which reported this fact.

As a member of COPAC, WOCCU collaborated with that organization in the preparation and presentation of a paper on quot The Role of Cooperatives in Light of New Economic and Social Trends quot at the forty ninth session of the General Assembly.

(d) International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)

Members of cooperatives

International cooperation for social development

V. International cooperation for social development

(g) World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).

14. In France, the statutes of different categories (sectorial statutes) of cooperative production societies, banks, credit unions, consumer and agricultural cooperatives, etc. were elaborated during the period from 1880 to 1920.

The Central Union of Cooperatives of Azerbaijan reports that there was only one change in the cooperative legislation the law of 1996 signed by the President of the Republic. The law says that the property of cooperatives belongs to the members and that the Government must not interfere in the activities of the cooperatives.

International Federation of Social Workers Ms. Ellen Mouravieff Apostol

Participated in drafting Arab Charter for Social Work, Arab Strategy for Social Work and Arab Charter for Comprehensive Social Development.

As guardian of the Cooperative Act, the Registrar of Cooperative Societies ensures that the cooperative principles are adhered to at all stages of a cooperative s operations, starting from the very day of registration.

Role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (1999)

Specific comments of approval were received from the International Cooperative Alliance Board, which reviewed and adopted the guidelines at their meeting in Tokyo in April 1998, and from the Federation of Danish Cooperatives.

Cooperative societies are guided by the cooperative acts of 1984, the cooperative rules of 1987 and the by laws of individual societies framed in accordance with the acts and rules.

RAED works in cooperation with the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

Collaboration with and contribution of civil society organizations

d In housing cooperatives, on the basis of cooperative ownership.

Owing to the recognition of the social importance and role of cooperatives, their activities are exempted from tax payments and various other fees.

The State has granted these associations the right to audit and to examine the commercial position of the cooperatives to ensure that they have conducted their affairs properly.

The National Cooperative Council envisages that the situation could be repeated since the Government initiated enactment of a new cooperative law in 1996.

Cooperation with regional organizations and civil society

with the question of regional

XVI(I) ICA International Co operative Alliance .