Law No. 15.109 providing for the State Policy on Cooperatives within the State of Goiás. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Goiás Document type Legislation Date 2005 (2012) 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 Basic legislation Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Abstract This Law, consisting 12 articles divided into six Chapters, establishes the State Policy on Cooperatives, which consists of the set of guidelines and rules aimed at encouraging cooperative activity and its development in the State. The objectives of this State Policy are the following: to create instruments and mechanisms that stimulate the continuous growth of cooperative activities; to provide educational and technical assistance to cooperatives based in the State; to establish financial incentives for the creation and development of the cooperative system; to facilitate the contact of cooperatives with each other and with their partners; technically and operationally support cooperatives, promoting partnerships for the development of the State 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 society and current legislation; to stimulate the inclusion of the study of cooperative in schools, aiming at a change of parameters of organization of production and consumption; to create mechanisms for sorting and qualifying informality, for the implementation of new cooperative labor societies; to spread government policies in favour of the cooperative societies of the State; to organize and maintain an updated General Register of Cooperative Societies in the State of Goiás, through information provided by JUCEG of all records of Cooperative Societies. Full text Portuguese Website www.gabinetecivil.go.gov.br