De belangrijkste ontwikkeling ter zake is de goedkeuring van de aanbeveling over de bevordering van coöperaties door het Internationaal Arbeidsbureau in 2002 (zie verder, voetnoot 19), die door de regeringen van alle EU-lidstaten en alle toetredingslanden en kandidaat-lidstaten is goedgekeurd.
The main important development in this respect is the adoption of Recommendation on the Promotion of Cooperatives by the International Labour Office, in 2002 (see infra footnote 19), which was officially approved by that time the Governments of all Member States of the EU as well as by the Governments of all accession and candidate countries.