The Subjects of Corporate Governance in a Cooperative

This paper analyzes the existing corporate governance bodies and entities that can exercise the powers of these bodies in a cooperative. The choice and relevance of the research topic are determined by the revealed inconsistency of corporate norms enshrined in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation with special legislation governing certain types of cooperatives, the lack of an unambiguous answer to the question of the priority of some norms over another. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the subject composition and corporate governance bodies in cooperatives to identify the most optimal ways to improve civil law. In the course of the study, a combination of general and private legal methods of cognition was used, which made it possible to obtain practice-oriented results. During the study, the authors concluded that the norms of general and special legislation governing the management of the cooperative as a corporate legal entity are inconsistent. The authors propose to extend the possibility of concluding a corporate agreement to regulate specific issues of managing a production cooperative. A credit consumer cooperative is particularly highlighted as a relatively new participant in civil law relations. Concerning it, the inconsistency of norms is identified by the authors, which can lead to the increasing inefficiency in a cooperative enterprise.