Co-operative Development Policies and Legislation
This section contains public documents from the international cooperative movement, from various government websites and from the cooperative movement in South Africa. It is also meant to serve as a resource to assist with cooperative policy development for government and to assist cooperators and activists to understand legal and policy issues confronting cooperatives.
New policies and legislation
The Cooperative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC)welcomes this opportunity to review the national Cooperatives Act 14 of 2005and to participate in a national consultative process with other stakeholders.Our starting point for engaging this process recognises: (1) the Cooperatives Act 2005 is generally progressive andtakes on board most international principles and values that uphold thed
The resolution calls on all ICA member co-operatives and co-operative organisations, as well as their members and eligible subsidiaries to register their .coop domain names; actively use their .coop domain names for their web sites; actively use their .coop domain names for their primary email addresses; actively use their .coop domain names on all promotional media; actively promote the use of