| 释义 |
- Mission
- KONFEKOOP - Basque Cooperatives Confederation
- CSCE - Supreme Council of Basque Cooperatives
- Elkar-Lan
- See also
- Bibliography
- Enlaces externos
- References
The Basque Cooperative Movement[1] encompasses more than a 1,100 cooperatives that provide employment for 54,000 workers[2] in Euskadi-The Basque Country. It is defined by its large number[3] of Worker Cooperatives and by the global benchmark[4] at its heart, namely, the Mondragon Corporation and its cooperatives. The Basque Cooperative Movement consists of[5] the Basque Cooperatives Confederation, the Federations in each economic sector, and the Supreme Council of Basque Cooperatives for defending and furthering the interests of Basque cooperatives. Law 4/1993, of 24 June, on Basque Cooperatives provides the following definition: “A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise, following the co-operative principles[6].” Mission - To provide institutional representation for Basque cooperatives and reinforce their official presence before public bodies
- To foster the cooperative development and cooperative training through the implementation of appropriate actions
- To support those agencies, institutions and activities that benefit the cooperatives
- To organise services of common interest for its member cooperatives
- To favour intercooperation in all its forms, of both an institutional and corporate nature
- To spread the Cooperative Movement and, in particular its principles, as guidelines for instilling the values upon which the cooperatives are based
- To use arbitration, mediation and conciliation procedures to resolve any conflicts that may arise
- To issue reports, decisions, rulings or proposals on matters involving the cooperatives
- To take part in those agencies and organisations as deemed convenient
- To undertake any other task that may be of assistance to the Cooperative Movement
KONFEKOOP - Basque Cooperatives Confederation The Basque Cooperatives Confederation was instituted by Law 4/1993, of 24 June, on Basque Cooperatives, being officially founded on 18 June 1996. It consists of the sectoral federations of Basque cooperatives, and holds and exercises the maximum representation of Basque cooperatives and their organisations. Grouped by cooperative types, differente sectoral federations have been set up in the Basque Country to cater for their cooperative members. Types of Basque cooperatives[7]: - Worker Cooperatives. They mainly group individuals whose work involves all kinds of economic or professional activities with a view to jointly providing goods and services for third parties
- Consumer Cooperatives. Their mission is to procure goods or provide services for their members to use or consume, as well as defend and promote the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and users
- Teaching Cooperatives. They provide services in education at different levels, stages, cycles, degrees and methods, in any branches of knowledge or instruction
- Food and Agriculture Cooperatives. Their members own farming, forestry, livestock or combined concerns whose purpose is to market produce and provide supplies, production equipment and services, or conduct operations designed to improve their members’ businesses
- Community Farming Cooperatives. Their members are the holders of rights over the use of goods liable to agricultural exploitation who convey those rights, furthermore providing, or not, their personal labour, as well as those who work in the business without conveying any such rights of use
- Housing Cooperatives. Their purpose is to provide their members with housing or premises, ancillary facilities and buildings; improve, maintain and manage those properties and their communal areas; create and render appropriate services, as well as refurbish homes, premises, facilities and buildings
- Banking Cooperatives. Their corporate purpose is to cater for both the active and passive financial needs of their members, although they may also do business with third parties
- Insurance Cooperatives. Their mission is to provide all kinds of insurance
- Healthcare Cooperatives. These are insurance cooperatives whose business activity involves covering the health risks of its members or policyholders
- Health Facility Cooperatives. These involve private individuals and legal entities whose mission is to build, equip, supervise, maintain and manage hospitals, clinics and similar facilities designed to provide healthcare for their members and workers
- Professional Services Cooperatives. These involve freelance workers, professionals and artists, and their purpose is to provide supplies, services and support to assist and back their members
- Business Services Cooperatives. These are made up of one or more business owners whose corporate purpose is similar to freelance professionals
- Institutional Services Cooperatives. These consist of corporations, public agencies, foundations, labour organisations and all nature of associations whose remit is cater for their members’ needs without impinging upon their respective autonomy and institutional idiosyncrasies
- Transport Cooperatives. Their aim is to organise and/or provide transport services or arrange activities conducive to that purpose; members are transport companies, drivers or other personnel, who provide the aforementioned services through the provision of their associated labour.
- Social Integration Cooperatives. These are largely made up of physically or mentally disabled people who use associated labour to organise and channel products and services
- Junior Cooperatives. These are associated labour cooperatives in which their members pursue a joint economic or professional activity designed to produce goods or services through the provision of their labour; their purpose is the practical implementation of the competencies they steadily acquire and develop as students on the courses held by the education institutes in which they are enrolled
- Second or Higher Degree Cooperatives. Their remit is to complete, promote, coordinate, reinforce or integrate the business activities of their members and the resulting group
CSCE - Supreme Council of Basque Cooperatives The Supreme Council of Basque Cooperatives was instituted by Law 1/1982, of 11 February, on Basque Cooperatives, being officially founded on 28 January 1983. It is made up of[8] delegates from the cooperatives, the Basque Government, and Basque Universities. It is a public body of a consultative and advisory nature pertaining to the Basque public administrations, for all those matters related to cooperativism. It helps to refine the legal and institutional system for the socio-economic governance of the Basque Country. It uses arbitration, mediation and/or conciliation to resolve any matters of litigation that may arise involving Basque cooperatives. Elkar-Lan Elkar-Lan S. Coop. is a non-profit, second-degree cooperative. It was founded by the Basque Cooperative Movement for the single purpose of promoting cooperative businesses and, therefore, the creation of cooperative employment and economic and social development. See also - International Co-operative Alliance
- Cooperative Movement
- Cooperative
- Mondragon Corporation
- Cooperative Principles
- Rochdale Principles
- Worker cooperative
- José María Arizmendiarrieta
Bibliography - Departamento de Justicia y Administración Pública del Gobierno Vasco/Basque Government Department of Justice and Public Administration, Basque Government’s “Law on Basque Cooperatives”. Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011. ISBN: 978-84-457-3143-7
- Mikel Lezamiz, Patxi Ormazabal, Marcos de Castro, Javier Salaberria, Andrés Arizcorreta, José Antonio Garrido, Pablo J. Beltrán de Heredia, “El Movimiento Cooperativo”, Minerva Ediciones S.L. Madrid 2008. ISBN: 978-84-88123-67-1
- Mikel Lezamiz, “Relato breve del cooperativismo”, Otalora. Aretxabaleta 1990. ISBN: 84-88125-06-2
- Konfekoop, Erkide, "Guía de Buen Gobierno de las Cooperativas", Konfekoop-Erkide. Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011
- Bruno Roelants, Eum Hyungsik, Elisa Terrasi, “Cooperatives and employment: a global report”, CICOPA. Brussels 2014. ISBN: 978-2-930816-00-5
- Leyre Arrieta, Miren Barandiaran, Alazne Mujika, José Antonio Rodríguez Ranz, "El Movimiento Cooperativo en Euskadi 1884-1936", Sabino Arana Foundation. Bilbao 1998. ISBN: 84-88379-24-2
Enlaces externos - Konfekoop - Basque Cooperative Confederaction
- CSCE - Supreme Council of Basque Cooperatives
- Elkar-Lan S.Coop. - Cooperative Development Agency
- Forokoop - Cooperative discussion forum
- Mondragon Corporation
- Basque Government - Directorate for the Social Economy
References 1. ^{{cite book |last1=Lezamiz |first1=Mikel |last2=Ormazabal |first2=Patxi |last3=de Castro |first3=Marcos |last4=Salaberria |first4=Javier |last5=Arizcorreta |first5=Andrés |last6=Garrido |first6=José Antonio |last7=Beltrán de Heredia |first7=Pablo J. |title=El Movimiento Cooperativo |date=2008 |publisher=Minerva Ediciones S.L. |location=Madrid |isbn=978-84-88123-67-1}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.konfekoop.coop/index.php |title=Basque cooperatives 2017 numbers |website=Basque Cooperative Confederation}}
3. ^{{cite book |last1=Roelants |first1=Bruno |last2=Hyungsik |first2=Eum |last3=Terrasi |first3=Elisa |title=Cooperatives and employment: a global report |date=2014 |publisher=CICOPA |location=Brussels |isbn=978-2-930816-00-5}}
4. ^{{cite book |last1=Lezamiz |first1=Mikel |title=El Movimiento Cooperativo |date=2008 |publisher=Minerva Ediciones S.L. |location=Madrid |isbn=978-84-88123-67-1}}
5. ^{{cite book |last1=Basque Government |first1=Department of Justice and Public Administration |title=Law on Basque Cooperatives |date=2011 |publisher=Basque Government |location=Vitoria-Gasteiz |isbn=978-84-457-3143-7 |ref=Article 143}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=The cooperative principles |url=https://www.ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles |website=International Cooperative Alliance ICA}}
7. ^{{cite book |last1=Basque Government |first1=Department of Justice and Public Administration |title=Law on Basque Cooperatives |date=2011 |publisher=Basque Government |location=Vitoria-Gasteiz |isbn=978-84-457-3143-7 |ref=Article 98}}
8. ^{{cite book |last1=Basque Government |first1=Department of Justice and Public Administration |title=Law on Basque Cooperatives |date=2011 |publisher=Basque Government |location=Vitoria-Gasteiz |isbn=978-84-457-3143-7 |ref=Article 145}}
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