International Handbook of Cooperative Law
The degree of development reached by cooperatives of different sectors throughout the world, which among others led to the UN declaring 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, needs to be accompanied by a similar development of corresponding legis
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International Handbook of Cooperative Law
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Dante Cracogna • Antonio Fici • Hagen Henry¨ Editors
International Handbook of Cooperative Law
Editors Dante Cracogna University of Buenos Aires Argentina Hagen Henry¨ University of Helsinki Finland
Antonio Fici University of Molise Campobasso Italy EURICSE Trento Italy
ISBN 978-3-642-30128-5 ISBN 978-3-642-30129-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30129-2 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013950273 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
To our knowledge, this International Handbook of Cooperative Law is the first of its kind. This notwithstanding, it builds on past and present similar efforts to present cooperative laws in a comparative way. The 1930s, 1950s and 1980s saw a number of such studies.1 From among the more recent publications we would like to mention those coordinated by Dante Cracogna on Central and South America and those by Jose´ Marı´a Montolı´o on Europe and Latin America.2 In 2010 Jan Theron made a comparative study on Eastern and Southern Africa.3 The regional organization of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) for A
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