The general meeting of the workforce cooperative can only validly deliberate if, on first convocation, at least two thirds of the cooperative’s participants are present or represented. The articles of association determine the quorum required for the meeting convened on second call. In the absence of statutory provisions, this quorum is half of the members of the cooperative, present or represented.
The general meeting decides by a majority of the votes cast. In the event of a ballot, blank ballots are not taken into account.
However, for the amendment of the cooperative’s articles of association and for other decisions listed in the articles of association, the quorum may not be less than half of the cooperative’s members. Moreover, these same decisions are taken by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast. In the event of a ballot, blank ballot papers are not taken into account.