S.L. 452.98 Art. 13Participation in general or sectorial meetings.

(1) Subject to the limits laid down in Article 59(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003, the employees of the SCE or their representatives or both are entitled to participate in the general meeting or, if it exists, in the section or sectorial meeting, with the right to vote:

(a) when the parties so decide in the agreement referred to in regulation 9, or

(b) when a cooperative governed by such a system transforms itself into an SCE, or

(c) when, in the case of an SCE established by means other than transformation, a participating cooperative was governed by such a system, and:

(i) the parties cannot reach agreement, as referred to in regulation 9, by the deadline laid down in the same regulation; and

(ii) regulation 11(1)(b) and Part 3 of the Schedule apply; and

(iii) the participating cooperative governed by such a system has the highest proportion of participation, within the meaning of regulation 2, in force in the participating cooperatives concerned before registration of the SCE.