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Regional state administration in Finland 2011

Regional state administration in Finland 2011. Regional state administration was reorganized on 1 January 2010. Regional state administration was overhauled at the beginning of 2010.

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Regional state administration in Finland 2011

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  1. Regional state administrationin Finland 2011

  2. Regional state administration was reorganized on 1 January 2010 • Regional state administration was overhauled at the beginning of 2010. • The functions of the former main regional state authorities were brought together and reorganized under two new regional state authorities • the regional state administrative agencies (6 agencies) • the centres for economic development, transport and the environment (15 centres)

  3. 6 x Regional State Administrative Agencies (AVI) 15 x Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY) Present-day agencies: Former agencies: • State Provincial Councils • Employment and Economic Development Centres • Regional Environment Centres • Environmental Permit Authorities • Road Regions • Occupational Safety and Health Inspectorates Staff Staff Staff Functions Functions Functions Functions Functions Changes in regional state administration The changes affected approximately 5,600 employees

  4. Clarification of roles and division of duties of regional authorities • Regional State Administration • is responsible for central government implementation and development functions and is in charge of executing steering in the regions • is responsible for supervising the implementation of legislation and for legal protection to some extent • Regional Councils • main responsibility for strategy-based development of the regions • responsible for certain statutory tasks related to regional development • in charge of duties delegated to the regional councils by local government

  5. Regional Councils • Regional councils are statutory joint municipalities that operate on the principles of municipal self-government. • They serve as statutory authorities responsible for regional development and regional planning and are thus the main units for planning and interest representation in the regions. • Their functions are to • formulate regional programmes, plans and implementation plans, • draw up regional EU programmes and • be in charge of land use planning. • Besides their statutory functions, the regional councils carry out many optional tasks that mainly concentrate on idiosyncratic regional issues. • There are 18 regional councils in Finland.

  6. New structure of regional state administration • The new administrative structure is a base for any future reorganization of regional state administrative functions. • The reform strengthens the role of the regional councils as a regional state organ by bringing together into the regional councils all regional development functions and related resources decision-making. • In the reform, the forest centres were functionally coupled with regional state administration. • The regional state administrative agency for the Åland Islands is known as the State Department of Åland. It includes all functions performed by the former provincial state office.

  7. Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (”ELY”) is responsible for implementing and developing government activities in the regions. The centre concentrates on functions related to natural resources and the environment, transport and the infrastructure, labour force, businesses and competence and activities related to culture Regional State Administrative Agency (”AVI”) is responsible for implementing, steering implementation and supervising the implementation of legal provisions and legal protection to some extent in the regions. The agency concentrates on the materialization of basic public services, legal protection, permits and supervision, public safety, tasks related to environmental permits and supervision of occupational safety. Operating principles of the newregional state authorities

  8. Area divisions and offices of the authorities

  9. Functions and organization of the authorities

  10. Strategic steering Operational steering Collaboration in strategic steering Ministry of the Interior Ministry of Transport and Communications Ministry of Employment and the Economy Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ministry of Education and Culture Ministry of the Environment Director-General Environment and natural resources (13) Transport and infrastructure (9) Economic Development, Employment, Competence and Culture (15) Administrative Services Unit Unit for data administration services of regional administration Forest centres Employment and economic development offices Regional Councils

  11. Strategic steering Operational steering Collaboration in strategic steering Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ministry of the Interior Ministry of the Environment Ministry of Education and Culture Ministry of Justice Ministry of Employment and the Economy Ministry of Finance Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Director-General Environmental permits (4) Occupational health and safety (5) Basic Public services, legal rights and permits (6) Rescue services and preparedness (6) • Policing (3) Administrative Services Unit Unit for data administration services of regional administration Local register offices Municipalities

  12. Strategic steering of regional state authorities • Strategic steering and planning in the regional state administrative agencies and in the centres for economic development, transport and the environment is carried out in collaboration with the ministries in charge of steering the said agencies and centres. • Both are provided with a strategy document covering a whole government term. • A strategic performance target agreement is drawn up for each regional state administrative agency and centre for economic development, transport and the environment for a whole government term and it is assessed annually. The strategic performance agreements build on the strategy document.

  13. Steering regional state administration COORDINATING MINISTRY OTHER MINISTRIES AND CENTRAL AGENCIES STRATEGY PAPER Government Programme, Government Strategy Document, policy programmes, spending limits, other interadministrative policy programmes, various agreements Regional programmes Implementation plans Operations performance agreement Strategic per- formance target agreement

  14. www.avi.fi www.ely-keskus.fi More information Regional State Administrative Agency Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

  15. www.reg.fi More information Finnish Regional Councils

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