СТАТУТИ ПЕРШИХ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ СПОЖИВЧИХ ТОВАРИСТВ ЯК НОРМАТИВНО-ПРАВОВА ОСНОВА ЇХ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ (СЕРЕДИНА ХІХ СТ.)

Abstract

Voloshkevych H. Statutes
of the first Ukrainian consumer
societies as a normative-legal
basis of their functioning (middle
of the XIX century)
The article investigates organizationallegal
background of
consumer’s societies and their unions
in Nadnepryanska part of Ukraine
in the second half of 19th. The
peculiarities of administrative and
legal conditions for the origin of
consumer cooperatives are analyzed
and the content of the statutes
of the first consumer societies is
considered. It has been established
that the lack of a single legislative
act in the field of cooperation caused
the emergence of sufficiently diverse
volume and content of constituent
documents.
The main key provisions of the
constituent documents of cooperative
organizations in Nadnepryanska
part of Ukraine are characterized,
the peculiarities of the right
status of the first co-operators are
characterized, are characterized by
the first cooperative organizations
of the division of members of the
consumer society on full, owned
by all enshrined in the statutes of
rights, and disadvantaged, the
volume of rights of which had a
narrowed character in comparison
with the first group. The mechanism
of management of consumer societies
reproduced, the main management
bodies (General Meeting, Board,
Audit Commission) are determined),
their composition and procedure
for formation are analyzed. By
comparative analysis, joint and
excellent features are established
in the constituent documents
of the first domestic consumer
cooperatives and their european
analogues. It has been established
that despite the substantial
similarity, the statutes of the first
societies allowed departments from
the generally accepted theory and
practice of cooperative movement,
in particular, the restriction of the
rights of members of cooperative
organizations was allowed, there
were no provisions that envisaged
the return of funds for acquired
goods, instead, the main focus
was to pay attention to payments
dividends. It is concluded that
the statutes of the first consumer
societies absorbed separate norms
and institutions inherent in joint
stock companies.