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