Law No. 1.598 establishing State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of Acre. Pays/Territoire Brésil Sous-division territoriale Acre Type du document Législation Date 2004 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Agriculture et développement rural Mot clé Mesures financières agricoles Coopérative/organisation de producteurs Subvention/incitation Mesures fiscales et de marché Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Développement agricole Renforcement des capacités Aire géographique Amazone, Amériques, Amérique latine et Caraïbes, Atlantique Nord, Amérique du Sud, Atlantique Sud Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Résumé This Law, consisting 17 articles divided into four Chapters, establishes the State Policy to Support Cooperatives within the State of Acre. It specifies principles, objectives, guidelines, rules and instruments aimed at encouraging the activity of cooperative and its development in the State. The State Power is responsible to: create instruments and mechanisms that stimulate the continuous growth of activity Cooperative; to support technically and operationally cooperatives in the State; to stimulate the cooperative form of social, economic and cultural organization in the various branches of action within the State, based on the general principles of cooperative and current legislation; to promote the inclusion of the study of cooperatives in schools, aiming at the emergence and strengthening of a cooperative culture within the population and the diffusion of cooperative activity; to encourage the organization of production, consumption, credit, housing and services based on the principles of cooperatives; to promote studies, research and events in order to contribute to the development of the cooperative activity; Provide means for greater capacity building for co-operative suitors or associate citizens; to provide technical assistance with quality and efficiency to cooperatives based in the State; to stimulate and finance a cooperative training and capacity building program; and to establish financial and fiscal incentives for the creation and development of the cooperative system. Texte intégral Portugais Site web www.al.ac.leg.br