Problems of formation of effective cooperative legislation at the present stage of agro-industrial complex development

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of formation of the cooperative legislation, adequate to the essential foundations of cooperation and its at the present stage of development of the domestic agro-industrial complex. It is established that the existing system of "multilaterality", under which the activities of various types of cooperatives in rural areas are regulated by separate regulatory legal acts, does not allow to clearly identify the cooperative as a form of management, which puts co-operation in unequal conditions with other organizational and legal forms. Examples of the inconsistency of certain provisions of the current cooperative legislation with each other and the principles of cooperation are given. It is made a conclusion on the current tendency of its development towards the equalization of agricultural cooperatives with commercial forms of management. One of the criteria for assessing cooperative legislation is the compliance of its provisions with cooperative principles and values proclaimed by the International Cooperative Alliance, as well as the established practice of cooperative relations. In order to improve co-operative legislation it is necessary to adopt a federal framework law on cooperation, in which essential features and principles of activity common for all types and forms of cooperatives should be set out. They should emphasize the non-commercial nature of the activities of these organizations, as well as abolish a number of existing legal norms that contradict the essential fundamentals cooperation.