Members of cooperatives

Women apos s cooperatives represent 3.7 per cent of all cooperatives in Jordan.

For example, it did not provide flexibility for the accommodation of the operation of new types of cooperatives such as workers cooperatives or land purchase cooperatives.

Example establishment of women's health cooperatives such as the MURIGA (pregnancy and childbirth support cooperatives).

While the special character of cooperatives is recognized, cooperatives do not find this recognition effective.

(v) Cooperatives

Housing cooperatives

d. Expansion of the cooperatives

Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives

Members of agricultural production cooperatives

Responsibility for the formulation of policies pertaining to cooperatives and the monitoring of their implementation lies with the Department of Cooperatives of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Cooperatives and Public Enterprises.

In Morocco, grazing cooperatives were formed around traditional tribal affiliations and the leaders of these cooperatives represented them in negotiations. However, cooperatives need not be tribally based.

The building cooperatives

In 1990, cooperatives were required to contribute 20 per cent of their surplus in excess of a half a million dollars to either the Central Cooperative Fund or the Singapore Labour Federation.

Fifty (50) delegations of women's cooperatives participated.

Cooperatives of Pakistan have the same complaint.

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.

II. Legislation governing cooperatives

Law 2810 2003 on Agricultural Cooperative Organizations amends the terms of establishment of agricultural cooperatives, favouring the participation of women in the cooperatives.

Law 2810 2003 on Agricultural Cooperative Organizations amends the terms of establishment of agricultural cooperatives, favouring the participation of women in the cooperatives.

Most of the national trade union cooperatives, which are the largest and most successful, contribute their surplus to the Federation which is then channelled to the benefit of the lower income workers in Singapore.

Building cooperatives and many types of associations, e.g. the new house cooperatives, have also built flats for their members. Group homes

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

The Government is applying the acts and rules through the Department of Cooperatives under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives.

Following reunification, the Act on Cooperatives of the Federal Republic of Germany also applied to the cooperatives located in the former German Democratic Republic.

The increased funding has enabled the Singapore National Cooperative Federation to organize more projects and activities, while the exclusion of capital gains from the computation of surplus is to make cooperatives more competitive with private enterprises.

b) Establishment of cooperatives for savings and loan services

The special character of cooperatives is recognized for regulatory and administrative purposes by the Cooperative Code and supplementary legislation and the Tax Statute of Cooperatives.

At the same time, the rules for cooperatives were collected under a separate heading, cooperatives and mutual assurance associations , to strengthen the position of cooperatives as separate legal entities together with non profit organizations and limited companies.

11. General law on cooperatives or the general section of a single law on cooperatives A general law on cooperatives could form the basic element in legal provisions and the fundamental point of guidance for all judicial and administrative practice.

In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the law on cooperatives of 1998 regulates the establishment and operation of cooperatives, grants preferential tax treatment to youth and students cooperatives, defines and ensures the identity of cooperative property and bans its transformation into other forms of property.

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At the same time, the movement itself produced two important organizations at different levels, the Dominican Federation of Cooperatives and the Dominican Confederation of Cooperatives, which have since the 1980s been encouraging women to become involved in the movement, as well as training its women members so that they can develop the skills to assume positions of leadership in it.

36. The Ministry of Cooperative Development of Kenya reports that the legal framework within which cooperatives operate is set out in the Cooperatives Societies Act of 1966.

38. The Government of Syria reports that the national legislative framework for cooperatives consists of several laws whereby different types of cooperatives are governed by separate laws.

Proposed legislation is expected to modernize and make the regulation of cooperatives more practical, while emphasizing that cooperatives are different from other business enterprises.

In addition, the Ordinance on the Establishment, Activities and Reorganization of the Craft Production Cooperatives and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, pertaining to the reorganization, dissolution and closure of cooperatives and to the property rights of their members, now govern the activities of cooperatives throughout Germany.

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

The consumer cooperatives are governed by the law of 1959.

In Finland, the law on cooperatives is being thoroughly reformed with a view to updating it, particularly the provisions concerning the financial activities of cooperatives.

Many Governments consider cooperatives to be a particular type of business organization or corporation operating in the market, subject to specific cooperative laws in the form of one law covering all types and forms of cooperatives or separate laws for different types and branches of cooperatives.

A. Legal and administrative framework for cooperatives