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"Mr President, many Members have already spoken about the Council’s failure to take the opportunity to observe and recognise the European Parliament’s prerogatives laid down by the Treaty and to propose a legal base providing for Parliamentary codecision in respect of the regulation on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society.
It is important to remember that, as early as 1991, the Council specified this legal basis in respect of the three proposals for regulations it presented at that time, on a European Cooperative Society, a European association and a European mutual society respectively, as well in respect of the original proposal on the European company.
The Council’s attitude is even more incomprehensible in the light of its previous actions, and so I hope that it will reconsider its position after the House votes tomorrow.
In this connection – as the rapporteur has already explained – the aim of the proposal for a regulation on the Statute for a Cooperative Society is harmonisation, to approximate Member States’ laws, in other words to remove all the barriers hindering the functioning of the internal market. It does not regulate matters of taxation or competition – although these are important and will have to be addressed in future – or matters of copyright or insolvency, but merely the structure of the societies, referring systematically to the national law of the country in which the cooperative society has its registered office.
That said, we cannot fail to agree that it is important and urgent that we find a solution for the creation of the cooperative society, given that work on this project has been at a standstill for decades and that it was only in December 2000 that the Council finally reached political agreement on the substance, the content of the regulation and the Directive on Worker Involvement
which is linked to the creation of the European Cooperative Society.
Over these years – or decades, rather – the world of cooperatives in Europe has expanded greatly, acquired economic weight and shown that it actually has a key social role to play, particularly in terms of employment. On a number of occasions during these years, the European Parliament has expressed itself, through various reports, on the importance of the third sector for the economy, on the essential role it plays in preserving society, on its proven ability – borne out by numerous studies – to create jobs, not least high-quality jobs. Mr Hughes mentioned a successful European Parliament initiative which revealed the zeal and skill shown by the third sector and the cooperative sector in responding to the challenges of employment and social cohesion.
With the proposed amendments, which I hope will be adopted tomorrow and taken into consideration by the Commission and the Council, the European Parliament is enhancing the proposal, introducing into the regulation the changes necessary to harmonise the statute and the provisions of the Directive on Worker Involvement. Information and consultation rights are laid down, to ensure that they are fully respected during the pre-legislative phase and whenever any structural changes or modifications are made.
I will end, Mr President, by congratulating the two rapporteurs for my part too, for they have worked together and developed these two important reports side by side."@en1
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