Minimum content of the statutes

The statutes must contain: 1. the firm name and seat of the cooperative; 2. the object of the undertaking; 3. provisions as to whether the members, in the event that the creditors are not satisfied in insolvency proceedings over the assets of the cooperative, are to make additional contributions to the insolvency estate without limit, limited to a fixed sum (liability sum), or not at all; 4. provisions on the form for convening the general meeting of the members and for recording its resolutions, and on the chairing of the meeting; the general meeting must be convened by direct notification of all members in text form or by publication in a public gazette; the court may permit exceptions to this; publication in the Federal Gazette or in another publicly accessible electronic information medium does not suffice; 5. provisions on the form of the cooperative's publications, and the designation of the public gazettes for publications whose publication in public gazettes is prescribed by statute or by the statutes; the statutes may designate publicly accessible electronic information media as a public gazette.