Last November, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Deolinda Meira, of the Portuguese team, attended the 1st International Forum on Co-operative Law, organise by the Co-operative Law Committee (CLC) of the International Co-operative Alliance, in collaboration with the CLC of Cooperatives of the Americas. Deolinda Meira presented a paper on « The trend lines of co-operative share capital regime in the new Portuguese Co-operative Code». She also chaired the session on «Co-operative law and economics. Horizontal and vertical integration».