Law No. 17.142 providing for the State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of Paraná. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Paraná Document type Legislation Date 2012 (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 Registration Tax/levy Credit Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Abstract This Law, consisting 9 articles, establishes the State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of Paraná. This State Policy aims at regulating the activities carried out by the Public and Private Power, benefiting directly or indirectly all branches of the cooperative sector through the promotion of social, economic and cultural development, according the Constitution of the State of Paraná. The State of Paraná will exercise the functions of incentive and planning, supporting and stimulating cooperatives and developing mechanisms to facilitate the creation, maintenance and development of cooperatives. The objectives of the State Policy are: to provide technical, financial and operational support to cooperatives in the State, promoting an operational partnership for the development of the cooperative system, with a special emphasis on the improvement of organizational models, especially in social inclusion and development with sustainable and autonomous bases for the diverse sectors of the society; to stimulate the cooperative form of social, economic and cultural organization in the various branches of action, based on the general principles of cooperatives and current legislation; to encourage the inclusion of the study of cooperative in schools, aiming to change the organizational parameters of all branches of cooperative; publicize government policies for the sector, articulating processes for a strategy building, through the creation of a State Council of Cooperatives; to promote capacity building for aspiring or already associated citizens in cooperatives, supporting the elaboration and constitution of the state programme of support to cooperative, based on the Cooperative State Council and strategies that allow training actions and improvement of this model of organization; to promote the development and self-management of all branches of cooperatives, especially in the field of labour, legally constituted, in accordance with its current legislation; to establish tax treatment to cooperatives; to encourage the creation, maintenance and development of cooperatives, regulating legal obligations. Full text Portuguese Website www.legislacao.pr.gov.br