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European Cooperative Society
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| Companies law |
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| Basic forms: |
| Sole proprietorship |
| Partnership (General · Limited · LLP) |
| Corporation (LLC) |
| Cooperative |
| United States: |
| Business trust LLLP · Series LLC Delaware corporation Nevada corporation |
| European Economic Area, including European Union: |
| SE · SCE |
| United Kingdom / Commonwealth / Ireland: |
| Limited company (By shares · By guarantee) (Public · Proprietary) Community interest company |
| Civil law countries: |
| AB · AG · ANS · A/S · AS |
| K.K. · N.V. · OY · S.A. · GmbH |
| Doctrines |
| Corporate governance |
| Limited liability · Ultra vires |
| Business judgment rule |
| Internal affairs doctrine |
| De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel |
| Piercing the corporate veil |
| Rochdale Principles |
| Related areas of law |
| Contract · Civil procedure |
The European Cooperative Society (SCE, for Latin Societas Cooperativa Europaea) is, in company law, a European co-operative type of company, established in 2006 and related to the European Company. European Cooperative Societies may be established, and may operate, throughout the European Economic Area (including the European Union), and the legal form was created to remove the need for co-operatives to establish a subsidiary in each Member State in which they operate. No matter where they are established, SCEs are governed by a single EEA-wide set of rules and principles which are supplemented by the laws on co-operatives in each Member State, and other areas of law.
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Article 2(1) of the SCE Regulation provides for SCEs to be formed in five ways:
- ex novo: by five or more natural persons resident in at least two Member States
- by at least five natural and legal persons resident in, or governed by the law of, at least two Member States;
- by two or more legal persons governed by the law of at least two Member States;
- by a merger between at least two EEA co-operatives governed by the law of at least two different Member States;
- by conversion of a single EEA co-operative, if it has had an establishment or subsidiary in a different Member State for at least two years.
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- European Commission DG Enterprise & Industry: Statute for a European Co-operative Society
- Cooperatives Europe: Presentation about the 'Vade-Mecum de la SCE' (French)
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