National Supervision Union Of Spolem Consumer Co-operatives

ul. Grazyny 13/15
02-548 Warsaw
Poland

KZRSS is a national federation of consumer co-peratives. The aim of the Association is to assist and facilitate the realization of their affiliated cooperatives statutory tasks and inspire cooperation cooperatives for their development and integration. The tasks of the Association include:

• Provide training and advisory services in the areas of legal, economic and financial, tax and accounting
• assistance in selecting the most effective organizational and economic forms and methods of co-operative management
• training activities and the publishing and promotion of cultural and educational activities
• representing the interests of cooperatives affiliated to bodies of state administration and local self-government bodies
• representing the affiliated cooperatives abroad and in international co-operative movement
• initiate and develop cooperation between cooperatives and cooperation with research institutions
• development of information and analysis for the affiliated cooperatives
• organizing audit accounts affiliated cooperatives on the basis of specific regulations
• providing assistance to affiliated cooperatives in social activities

There are around 49,000 individual members in consumer co-operatives. This number is variable as a consumers cooperative is an organization open and anyone who meets the requirements of the Statute of the cooperative pays a buy-in and participation may be admitted as members.