Anyone shall incur a criminal sanction when, without being duly authorized pursuant to legal and regulatory provisions governing this type of groupings, he improperly uses the expressions of the cooperatives, unions of cooperatives, federation or confederation of cooperatives, accompanied by any qualifier, as well as all names such as to suggest that it is one of the groupings mentioned in this Article.

Subject to the specific provisions of Article 386 above, the provisions not contrary to Articles 886 to 905 of the Uniform Act on Commercial Companies and Economic Interest Grouping shall be applicable to cooperatives as well as their unions, federations and confederations.