European Confederation of Workers' Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Social and Participative Enterprises
CECOP-CICOPA Europe
- Represent the interests of our members to the EU institutions, other European-level policy makers, national governments, and the wider cooperative movement - Support our members through networking, mutual learning, designing common strategies and agreeing collective positions - Develop industrial and service cooperatives across Europe, and support their capacity to cooperate with each other – building new national organisations where they don’t yet exist - Increase the visibility of cooperatives in industry and services, in the forms they are mainly organised - worker cooperatives, social cooperatives and cooperatives of self-employed producers - Carry out research and contribute to knowledge about industrial and service cooperatives
Lobbying Activity
Response to Circular Economy Act
6 Nov 2025
Meeting with Amaryllis Verhoeven (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
18 Mar 2025 · 1. Raising Awareness of Cooperatives 2. Cooperative experience with the CSRD 3. Alignment with Commission Priorities 4. Recognising Cooperatives as competitive actors
Meeting with Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit)
29 Nov 2023 · Social Economy/ Workers Buyouts
Response to Revision of the Directive 2011/7/EU on combating Late Payments in commercial transactions
15 Mar 2023
Response to Proposal for a Council Recommendation on developing social economy framework conditions
30 Sept 2022
Response to Proposal for a Council Recommendation on the enabling factors for successful digital education
16 Sept 2022
Meeting with Elisabetta Gualmini (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
29 Mar 2022 · Roundtable on platform work directive
Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and
5 Mar 2021 · Intervention in a roundtable event “Stand up for the Social Pillar” on the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the road to the Porto Social Summit.