"Standards (Trial)" specifies in detail the establishment standards of cooperative model societies:
(1) democratic management is good. It is registered in accordance with the Law on Farmers' Specialized Cooperatives and has been registered in the administrative department for industry and commerce for 2 years. Have a fixed office and an independent bank account. Organization code certificate and tax registration certificate are complete. According to the actual situation of cooperatives, with reference to the Model Charter of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, formulate articles of association, establish and improve internal rules and regulations such as financial management system, financial disclosure system, social affairs disclosure system, deliberation and decision-making record system, and earnestly implement them. The general meeting of members (representatives) shall be held at least once a year, and complete minutes shall be kept, and all members attending the meeting shall sign the minutes. Matters involving major property disposal and important production and business activities shall be passed by the resolution of the members (representatives) general assembly, and democratic decision-making shall be earnestly achieved. The election and voting of members (representatives) general assembly shall be carried out by one-person-one-vote system or one-person-one-vote system plus additional voting rights, in which the total number of additional voting rights shall not exceed 20% of the total number of basic voting rights of cooperative members, and democratic management shall be earnestly implemented. In accordance with the provisions of the articles of association or the resolutions of the general meeting of cooperative members (representatives), establish and improve social affairs supervision institutions, elect members of the board of supervisors or executive supervisors from among cooperative members, or directly exercise supervision power by cooperative members, and earnestly implement democratic supervision. According to the needs of accounting business, we should equip necessary accounting personnel, set up accounting books, prepare accounting statements, or entrust relevant bookkeeping agencies to keep accounts and calculate. Accounting personnel hold accounting qualification certificates, and accounting personnel and cashier personnel do not hold concurrent positions. Members of the board of directors and the board of supervisors and their immediate family members shall not serve as accountants of cooperatives. Set up a member account for each member, which mainly records the member's capital contribution, the share of provident fund quantified as a member, the transaction between the member and the cooperative, and the return of surplus. A cooperative that withdraws the provident fund shall, in accordance with the provisions of its articles of association, quantify the provident fund to each member's share every year and record it in the member's account. The distributable surplus shall be returned in proportion to the transaction volume (amount) between the members and the cooperative, and the total amount returned shall not be less than 60% of the distributable surplus. Organize the preparation of the cooperative's annual operation report, surplus distribution plan or loss treatment plan and financial statements every year, which will be directly audited by the board of supervisors (executive supervisors) or members, and placed in the office for members' reference 15 days before the general meeting of members (representatives) to accept questions from members. The board of supervisors (or executive supervisor) is responsible for the internal audit of the agency's finance, and the audit results are reported to the members (representatives) meeting, or the members (representatives) meeting entrusts an audit institution to audit the agency's finance. Consciously accept the guidance and supervision of rural management departments on the financial and accounting work of cooperatives.
(2) The operation scale is large. The main industries involved are advantageous industries or characteristic industries at or above the county level. The scale of operation is higher than the average level of farmers' professional cooperatives in the same industry in this province. Agricultural machinery professional cooperatives have more than 20 sets of agricultural machinery and equipment, with an annual service area of10.5 million mu or more.
(3) The number of members joining the cooperative is higher than the average level of the members of the cooperatives in the same industry in this province, and the number of members of the professional cooperatives in the breeding industry is above 150. Farmers account for more than 80% of the total membership, and enterprises, institutions and social organizations do not exceed 5% of the total membership. The unified purchase rate of main means of production of members (except the fixed assets brought by new members), the unified sales (provision) rate of main products (services) exceeds 80%, and the standardized productivity reaches 100%. Mainly for members, the proportion of transactions with non-members is less than 50% of the total cooperative transactions. Farmers' professional cooperatives that produce fresh agricultural products participate in "agricultural supermarket docking" and "agricultural school docking", or establish chain stores, direct sales stores, counters and sales points in cities and towns to achieve stable and smooth sales channels.
(4) Excellent product quality. All cooperative members who produce edible agricultural products can establish a production record system in accordance with the provisions of the Agricultural Products Quality and Safety Law and the Food Safety Law to completely record the whole production process and realize the traceability of product quality. The cooperative products that produce edible agricultural products are certified as pollution-free products, green foods, organic agricultural products or organic foods. The main products of cooperatives that produce edible agricultural products have registered trademarks.
(5) Enjoy a good social reputation and have no bad records such as production (quality) safety accidents, industry informed criticism and media exposure. The income of members is more than 30% higher than that of non-member farmers in the same industry in the county, which has become an important channel for farmers to increase their income.
Since 2006, local agricultural departments have extensively carried out various forms of cooperative demonstration society construction according to local conditions. In the application process of model societies, local agricultural departments take the Standard (Trial) as a reference, and most of them use the application materials submitted by farmers' professional cooperatives, and then the competent departments of counties, cities, provinces and other organizations organize expert review to finally determine the application method of the list of model societies. For example, in 20 12, Anhui Province specially issued the Notice on Launching the Application and Selection of Provincial Model Farmers' Professional Cooperatives in 20 12, stipulating that the application conditions of model cooperatives must meet the requirements stipulated in the Standards for the Establishment of Model Farmers' Professional Cooperatives in Anhui Province (Wan Han [201kloc-0/4]). Under the same conditions, cooperatives that participated in the 20 1 1 annual credit cooperation, party organization construction, industrial cooperatives and market development pilot demonstrations, and actively participated in various major activities organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Provincial Agricultural Committee are preferred. In the application procedure, the county (city, district) agricultural committee will carefully study and recommend the best according to the selection conditions and creation standards of provincial demonstration cooperatives, and declare to the Municipal Agricultural Committee in official documents, and report to the Provincial Agricultural Committee after being audited by the Municipal Agricultural Committee. The Provincial Agriculture Committee organized experts to review the demonstration cooperatives of provincial farmers' professional cooperatives declared by cities, and after the spot check and audit by the Provincial Agriculture Committee, it was publicized in Anhui Agricultural Information Network, and after no objection, it was reported to the Provincial Leading Group for New Rural Construction to announce the selection results.