ECONOMIC - STATUTES FOR COOPERATIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210275-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 275
• Publication Date: March 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION sF~~1RRRzESSTRICTED
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INFORMATION FROM
25X1A
COUNTRY Bulgaria DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
SUBJECT Economic - Statutes for cooperatives
H~BLISHED Monthly DIST. 31 Mar 1953
y periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sofia NO. OF PAGES
DATE
PUBLISHED Jul. 1952
LANGUAGE Bulgarian RE PPRTM ENT TO
REPORT NO.
NEW STATUTES FOR BULGARIAN CONSUMERS' COOPERATIVES
AND RAYON COOPERATIVE UNIONS
According to the new statutes for consumers' cooperatives and rayon
cooperative unions accepted by the third regular congress rf the ("ntral,Co-
operative Union, h 1d hetwnan Ic and 17 April 1952, rural cooperative will
no longer be called 'vseetranska" (general) but selkoop (selska potrebitelna
kooperatsiya, r"-al consumers' cooperatives). Such cooperatives supply
goods to farm workers and purchase their agricultural production.
Under the new statutes for the rural cooperatives, new members of the
cooperatives are not directly accepted nor are others excluded by the admin-
istrative councils of the cooperatives but by general assemblies, or, the re-
commendation of the administrative councils.
No urban cooperatives will in the future be called "gradska vsestranska"
(urban general) but narkcop (gradska potrebitelna kooperatsiya, urban con-
sumers' cooperatives). Urban cooperatives located in agricultural areas will,
in the future, also purchase agricultural products.
RKS or raykoop (raycnen kooperativen suyuz, rayon coeperativcc unions)
unite cooperatives (both selkoop and narhocp) in their resFective ravon:c and
supervise their functions. which include the purchAaing n? ^oricx'tural prod-
ucts. Under the old statute, the RKS was governed by an administrative o.oun-
eil and by a council of directors. Under the new statute, an a.imini^ttration
consisting cf fte to sewn persons -s the executive organ of the Rri3. This ac:-
ministratio., is respona ole to the TsKS (Tsentralen kooperat.ivrn suyua , Cen-
tral Cooperative Union) for all activities of its RKS. The n_ha irmon and the
members of the administration are chosen by the general assembly of plenipo-
tentiaries of the RKS. These plenipotentiaries are elected by secret ballot
by the general assemblies of conperati ves or "'y arses from cooperatives with 300 or more members. The pler.,_'potenti~,ries
constituting the general assembly of the RKS are elected for e one-year term.
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