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"I voted in favour of this report. Cooperative societies play an important role in boosting development of rural areas as well as social, economic and territorial cohesion. There are 160 000 cooperatives in the EU with around 5.4 million employees. However, only a small proportion of these cooperatives have chosen the Statute for a European cooperative society (SCE). By 2010, only 17 SCEs had been established in the whole of the EU, with 32 employees. Such a situation is unsatisfactory because cooperatives and other social economy enterprises are an important part of the European social model and they must be recognised and supported at Member State and EU level. The adoption of the SCE in 2003 is a major step facilitating the development of such companies in the EU, but its revision has revealed that it is not entirely suited to the specific circumstances of cooperative societies. I welcome the report’s calls for the existing Statute to be reviewed and amended so that it meets the needs of the market and for an autonomous and clear legal framework for SCEs to be established."@en1
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