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THE COMPANIES
(SECOND AMENDMENT) BILL, 2001
A look at India's Company Act which enables the establishment
and operation of cooperatives (producer companies) as companies. The legislation
provides an alternative for cooperatives registered under those state
cooperative acts that were restrictive and/or which permitted a high degree
of political and bureaucratic interference in the operation of the cooperatives
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http://www.companylawinfo.com/2ndammendbill.shtml
Database of
Cooperative Law
ILO, Geneva, February 2001
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/empent/empent.portal?p_docid=LAWS&p_prog=C&p_subprog=PL
Supportive
Environment for Cooperatives: A Stakeholder Dialogue on Definitions, Prerequisites
and Process of Creation
15-17 May 2002, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/coop_egm.htm
Anand
Declaration 2000
The Anand Declaration was the outcome of a meeting of national cooperative
leaders held in Anand in 2000. The problem faced by NDDB and other supporters
of the amendment to the Company Act to allow for registration of cooperatives
was the opposition of the "barons" of the cooperative movement
who saw it as a threat to their hegemony. The strategy was not to take
them head on, but to channel the discussion toward a statement of principles
by which any cooperative legislation might be judged. The Anand Declaration
is the final result and was signed by all of those present.
To read the Anand Declaration, click
here.
Review
of Co-op Laws in Afghanistan (1997)
Part I has been made available in electronic format by the International
Co-operative Alliance (ICA). Part II is from Co-operative Laws in Asia
and the Pacific by G.K. Sharma (pp.31-35).
To read the review, click
here.
Finish
Coop Law
Finland recently re-wrote their cooperative law.
Click here to view.
Promoting
Co-operatives: A Guide to ILO Recommendation 193
ICA, the Co-operative College and the ILO
by Stirling Smith
Click here
to read.
Framework for Cooperative Legislation
By, Hagen Henry for the ILO, 1998
Click
here to read in English.
Click
here to read this document in Arabic,
Spanish,
French,
Portuguese. The Chineses version is
available at ILO Beijing.
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