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Approval of establishment of business cooperatives
Last update date April 26, 2022
Approval of establishment
Small and medium-sized enterprises are generally disadvantaged, such as undersizedness and low credibility. Therefore, gathering and organizing peers is an effective means of responding. One of the means to organize this small and medium-sized business is the union system. Approval is required to establish a business cooperative.
Refer to the left for procedures other than the approval of establishment.
- Authorization
- Established
- Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
- Merger
- Special provisions for non-employee use
- Acceptance of notification and application
- Changes in Officers
- Dissolution
- Financial Statements
- Approval of the convocation of the General Meeting
- Others
- Acceptance of complaints and exercise of necessary measures
- Operational Improvement Order
- Dissolution order, etc.
In the union, there are many items that need to be approved by the competent administrative agency and that require approval or notification, and the form of submission is stipulated in the Enforcement Regulations.
Please contact the Kanagawa Prefectural Small and Medium Enterprises Central Association for various procedures, including the application for approval to change the articles of incorporation, notification of change of officers, and submission of financial statements related to financial statements, which are relatively common.
Kanagawa Prefectural Small and Medium Enterprises Central Association website
- Practice of union management (outside site)
- Formats of various formats (external site)(You can download it.)
Outline of the current union system
| Overview | Business Cooperatives (Business Cooperative Association) |
Corporate Union | Cooperatives | Shopping district promotion association |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Modernize, streamlining and streamlining management and securing opportunities for management activities | Securing workplaces for union members, streamlining management | Integrating the business of union members, optimizing scale, increasing productivity, and increasing common profit | Improvement of environment in shopping district area |
| Personality | Human coupling body | Human coupling body | Human/physical connectors | Human coupling body |
| Business | Joint business to support members’ business | Business management of commerce, industry, mining, transportation, service, etc. | Integration of union members’ businesses, related businesses, and incidental businesses | Improvement of shopping district environment, joint economic business |
| Requirements for establishment | Participation of four or more businesses | 4 or more individuals participate | Participation of four or more businesses | 1. At least 30 people of businesses engaged in retail, commercial or service businesses that operate in close proximity with an area within the prefecture. |
| Membership Qualification | Small businesses in the district (generally small and medium-sized enterprises) | Individuals, corporations, etc. | Small and medium-sized enterprises (including the estimated heirs of union members) and persons other than small and medium-sized enterprises within one-fourth when specified in the Articles of Incorporation | A person engaged in retail or service business in the district and anyone other than those specified in the Articles of Incorporation |
| Responsibility | Limited liability | Limited liability | Limited liability | Limited liability |
| Number of people who started | 4 or more people | 4 or more people (limited to individuals) |
4 or more people | 7 or more |
| Subscription | Freedom | Freedom | Acceptance of the General Assembly is required | Freedom |
| Voluntary withdrawal | Freedom | Freedom | Due to transfer of equity | Freedom |
| Ratio of union members | No. | More than one-third of all employees are union members. | No. | No. |
| Percentage of engagement | No. | More than half of all members are engaged in the union business | No. | No. |
| 1. Investment limit of union members | 25/100 (in the case of merger/withdrawal) | 25/100 (in the case of merger or withdrawal) | Less than 50/100 (the total investment of all non-small companies are less than 50/100) | 25/100 |
| Voting Rights | Equal (one vote per person) | Equal (one vote per person) | (However, if stipulated in the Articles of Incorporation, voting rights in proportion to investment is also acceptable if stipulated in the Articles of Incorporation, voting rights in proportion to investment is also acceptable.) | Equal (one vote per person) |
| Out-of-office use limit | As a general rule, up to 20/100 of the amount used by members (exceptional cases) | Up to 20/100 of the Member’s usage | ||
| Dividends | Dividends used and dividends paid up to 10% | Dividends and dividends paid up to 20% | Except as provided in the Articles of Incorporation | Dividends used and dividends paid up to 10% |
| Basising method | Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperative Law (established in 1949) |
Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperative Law (established in 1949) |
Act on the Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises (established in 1958) |
Shopping Street Promotion Association Act (established in 1962) |
For inquiries to this page
Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Division, Small and Medium Enterprises, Economic Affairs Bureau
Phone: 045-671-4236
Phone: 045-671-4236
Fax: 045-664-4867
Email address: ke-keiei@city.yokohama.jp
Page ID: 344-791-215
