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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteurs for this report. Without getting into the issue of the legal basis, I would also like to thank them for their desire to resolve the problems despite the legal digressions and naturally we expect the same good will from the Council.
It is the case that the European Parliament has dealt with the issue we are discussing today, the Cooperative Society, in various resolutions. Some of these resolutions are very significant. For example, in 1987, the contribution of cooperatives to regional development; in 1989, the role of women in cooperatives and local job-creating initiatives; or in 1994, the role of cooperatives in the growth of women's employment. If we compare these resolutions with the commitment made at the Lisbon Summit in 2000, and ratified in Barcelona in 2002, we will see that the content coincides to a great extent, equality policies, job creation, etc. In fact, apart from meeting the needs on a strictly local level for clearly local undertakings, all types of company can organise and carry out their activities at Community level.
The European phenomenon, with its dimension represented by enlargement, determines and defines new territorial rules, in deed or in law, which require a uniform applicable legal framework; and a lack of this uniformity may hinder both the grouping imposed by competitiveness and the operational and subsistence requirements.
Within this framework, we must not forget that cooperatives are groups of people or legal entities in which people, the personal dimension, are paramount, and must always be – and in fact are – very present. Let us remember – and this has been stressed here – that, by means of cooperative formulae, jobs have been preserved, with the participation of workers, who have played a very important role, and in this regard I would firstly like to stress the right and the opportunity for workers’ representatives to participate both at the time the European Cooperative Society is established and throughout its existence, and in particular at key moments, such as at the time of mergers or restructuring.
Secondly, we must stress the need for the maintenance of the concept and the practice of the participation of workers’ representatives, with the special characteristics represented by the existence and co-existence of the competent body of the Cooperative Society and the workers’ representative body.
I also believe it is necessary to insist that it is necessary and appropriate for horizontal policies, to which Parliament is particularly committed – gender equality, health at work, non-discrimination etc. – to be vigorously promoted by means of the Cooperative Society.
And finally we must bear in mind that in order to carry out its task, which carries with it rights as well as obligations and an exclusively public content, function or service, the representatives of the workers must enjoy the same protections as the representatives of workers at national level."@en1
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