TYPOLOGYCAL CONFIGURATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY WITH COOPERATIVE FORM AND REGISTER COMPETENCE

Abstract

The 2/2007 Professional Companies Act, of 15 th March, allows these companies to adopt any social form, including a cooperative form (art. 1.2 PCA). It might be thought that professional companies under a cooperative form are placed next to
the level of those cooperatives of services associating professionals, but there is not such a proximity. A cooperative form might be valid to satisfy the instrumental needs of liberal professionals, being so what a cooperative of services – amongst
many other options – allows for. However, the case is different when it comes to allow for the joint practice of a professional activity that requires an official University degree and the enrollment in the pertinent Professional Association under a cooperative form. The joint practice of a professional qualified activity is the element that allows professional cooperative societies to be considered as a new special type of cooperative authorized by the general society legislator as a kind of collective self employed work.