Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd.
Acronym: ICOS
General Information
Identification Code: 99345863205-62
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Entity Form: National Representative Organisation
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 2/11/2010
Last Update: 4/4/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is a co-operative umbrella organisation that serves and promotes commercial co-operative businesses and enterprise across multiple sections of the Irish economy.
ICOS represents 130 co-operatives, which collectively have over 150,000 individual members, employ >12,000 people in Ireland (a further 24,000 abroad) and has combined turnover of €14 billion. Starting from agriculture co-op roots, and the vision of our founding President, Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894; ICOS today has evolved to serve the co-operative sector in seven core categories, namely:
Multipurpose Dairy Co-ops
Livestock Sector Co-ops
Food, Fishing & Beverage Co-ops
Store, Trade & Wholesale Co-ops
Advisory and Education Related Co-ops
Community Oriented, Culture & Leisure Co-ops
Service Related Co-ops
Our mission is: Generating leadership, competitiveness and value through stronger co-operation and world class service.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Agriculture and rural development
- Budget
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Communication
- Competition
- Consumers
- Customs
- Employment and social affairs
- Energy
- Environment
- Food safety
- Research and innovation
- Single market
- Trade
Levels of Interest:
- european
- national
- sub-national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: European Legislation affecting Irish Co-ops, including:
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Trade (International, EU single market, BREXIT)
- EU budget
- Consumer legislation (inc labelling)
- Food supply chain
- Innovation and research funding
- Climate change and Energy policy
- Veterinary and animal health and welfare issues
- Food safety
- Transport of animals
- Environmental legislation
- Competition law relating to the organisation of primary producers
- Fisheries
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: The Plunkett HouseMerrion Square, 84
Post Code: D02 T882
City: Dublin
Country: IRELAND
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EU Office
Address: Rue de Treves 61ICOS ltd
Post Code: 1040
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Complementary Information: These grants were for the following Erasmus + Projects:
- A fields project which is aimed at training and upskilling co-op leaders in our membership base.
- The AgriCoopValue Project, which is a training project that aims to create a favourable framework for the application of a unified social accounting system for agri-food co-operatives at European level, in order to monetise their social value and determine their multiplying capacity within rural environments across the European Union.
-Lead Farm 5.0 project which supports digital innovation.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 1
Info Members: The ICOS European office has been a permanent fixture for since 1973, as long as Ireland has been a member of the EC.
It has always interacted with all of the European Institutions in a proactive, constructive and professional way.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: A complete list of ICOS members can be found here: http://icos.ie/find-your-co-op/
Organisation Members: ICOS is a member of COGECA, the General Confederation for Agriculture Co-operatives in the European Union.
www.copa-cogeca.eu
ICOS is also a member of U.E.C.B.V. – European Livestock and Meat Trading Union.
www.uecbv.eu/