Activities of Kent JOHANSSON related to 2012/2321(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the contribution of cooperatives to overcoming the crisis PDF (175 KB) DOC (94 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to bolster its services responsible for cooperatives by creating a Directorate focused onensure that all EU bodies and units pay proper attention to cooperatives and other social- economy organisations (such as mutuals) within DG Enterprise, with a unit working solely on; urges the Commission to focus proper attention to the restructuring of industrial and service enterprises in crisis or without a successor into cooperatives;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of including the cooperatives at all stages of the process in future initiatives and undertakings by the Union relating to cooperatives;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that the transfer of a business to the employees through the creation of a cooperative is often the bestcould be a good way of ensuring the continuity of an enterprise; stresses that this kind of transfer should be supported by a specific EU budget line that also includes financial instruments; calls urgentlycalls for the creation, with the participation of the EIB and stakeholders from the cooperative movement, of a European mechanism designed to promote the development of cooperatives and, in particular,, including business transfers under the cooperative form;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to draw up a comprehensive survey comparing national laws which promote the conversion of businesses into cooperatives, in particular provisions concerning takeovers, bankruptcies, competition, financing arrangements, business support bodies and the setting up of clusters of cooperatives; stresses the involvement of cooperatives in such a survey in order to set the priorities;