Government moves amendments to law on cooperatives

The government sent to parliament on Thursday a bill of amendments to the Cooperatives Act, setting up the Croatian Centre for Cooperative Entrepreneurship as a legal successor to the Croatian Cooperatives Alliance.
 

Membership of the Centre will not be mandatory, Entrepreneurship and Crafts Minister Gordan Maras said at the government session.

The government believes that non-mandatory membership relieves cooperatives of this parafiscal levy.

Maras said about 1,000 cooperatives operated in Croatia and that they were especially important among war veterans and farmers.

The government today also adopted an action plan to support exports in 2014-15. A central place in its implementation is held by the Croatian Economy Internationalisation Commission which, according to Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic, was an integral part of the foreign policy.

She said only 13 per cent of Croatian companies were exporters but employed 50 per cent of all employed.

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said there was no clearer quality criterion than a product that could be exported and was successful on the market because this clearly showed who was good and who was not.

(Hina)
 

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