Law No. 12.226 creates the State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of São Paulo. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision São Paulo Document type Legislation Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development Keyword Financial agricultural measures Cooperative/producer organization Subsidy/incentive Fiscal and market measures Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Agricultural development Capacity building Institution Registration Tax/levy Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Law, consisting 10 articles, creates the State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of São Paulo. This State Policy will have as its purpose the set of activities carried out by the public and private power that will directly and indirectly benefit the cooperative sector in the promotion of social, economic and cultural development, as long as it recognizes its public interest. The objectives of the State Policy are: to support technically, financially and operationally all cooperatives within the State, promoting an operational partnership for the development of the cooperative system; to stimulate the cooperative form of social, economic and cultural organization in the various branches of action, based on the general principles of cooperative; to encourage the inclusion of the study on cooperatives in schools, aiming at changing the organization of production, consumption and work; to spread government policies for the sector; to provide capacity building for cooperative claimants; to promote the development and self-management of legally constituted labour cooperatives. The cooperatives are obliged to register with the Organization of Cooperatives of the State of São Paulo - OCESP, under the terms of article 107 of Federal Law No. 5.764 of 16 December 1971. Full text Portuguese Website www.al.sp.gov.br