The Co-operative Company of Collective Interest (Scic) is a new kind of co-operative company with the following particularities:
It allows all types of actors to associate with the same project: paid, voluntary, users, public bodies, companies, associations, private individuals...
It products all types of goods and services which meet the collective needs of a territory with the best possible mobilization of its economic and social resources. The social utility of Scic is also guaranteed by its vocation to organize, between any actors, a practice of dialogue, democratic debate and citizenship formation;
It respects co-operative rules: a power distributed on the basis of 1 person = 1 vote (with possibility of constituting colleges allowing to balance the voices according to rules' approved in the General Meeting- Assemblée Générale); by involving all the associates in the life of the company as well as in its management; by keeping all the benefits or results of the company in some indivisible savings to guarantee its autonomy and perennially;
As any commercial company (Sa ou Sarl), it is of course subjected to requirements of good management and innovation;
Running under a logic of local and sustainable development, it is fixed in a territory and it promotes the connections between actors of the same economical region, with also an action of proximity.
TheScic concretizes the advent in France of the co-operation in “multi-stakeholder”, making possible to associate and to make you work together:
Employees of the co-operative (as in Scop),
Any individual wishing to take part voluntarily in its activity (as in association);
Usual users and people who, in any case, benefit from the co-operative activities (as in co-operative of consumers);
Any person or entity, of private or public law, which intends to contribute directly, by his work or a by a contribution of any kind (economical or other) to the development of the co-operative.
The whole of these persons can be associated with the capital of the co-operative. As an associate, each one takes part in the collective decision-makings via the college to which it belongs, by having one vote as any other others associates. Actually, the assembly of associates elects the administrators and the leaders of the co-operative among its members.
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