The legal department serves, both directly to Social Economy companies, and to its representative organizations and its legal advisers. So, it can perform a variety of activities, including:

• Provision of advice and reports on specific assumptions
• Applied research on legal, labour or fiscal regimes (reform projects, legal analysis reports, etc.)
• Proceedings of legal defense, to the administration or the courts.
• Documentation service: Specially designed for advisors of social economy entities or their representative organizations. It consists of the organized collection and preparation of all relevant legal data of the present case: jurisprudence, administrative and scientific doctrine, legislation, etc.

COMMERCIAL

Any question regarding the legal status of the social economy entities, and in particular:

• Formation of social economy companies
• Development and reform of social statutes
• Social Bodies
• Responsibility of administrators
• Challenging of social arrangements
• Regulations of social capital
• Membership cancellations (voluntarily, mandatory and expulsion) and refund claim
• System of social discipline
• Restructuring (merger, transformation, division)
• Formation of cooperative sections
• Financial instruments
• Insolvency proceedings
• Liquidation
• Corporate social responsibility

LEGAL CONSULTING

A large section of legal advice on business, and in particular, on social economy companies is offered. Without being exhaustive:

• Tax procedures for business creation,
• VAT and withholding tax. Corporate Statements, census duties, etc.
• Corporation tax
• Tax implications in transfer of businesses
• Taxation specialties in cooperatives and labour societies
• Specific tax law of non-profit institutions and their patrons
• Taxation relation with European law: harmonized assumptions, application of non-discrimination principle, State aid scheme.
• Taxation system of the activity internationalization

LABOUR

Matters on which the Department of Labour Law can provide collaboration and advice:

• Individual and collective Labour Relations (in social economy companies): recruitment, development of labour relations, labour disputes, cessation of the employment relationship, etc.
• Work partners and cooperative relationship
• Elections for representatives of employees in companies
• Active employment and training policies, grants, subsides and bonuses
• Duties and responsibilities in the prevention of occupational hazards
• Incorporation of ICT to labour relations