ZAGREB, May 31 (Hina) - State administration in counties should soon be taken over by county state administrations which would be led by a person appointed by the government following a public tender, while county prefects would no
longer be a state official and would not answer to the government but rather to the county assembly, the government decided today by adopting amendments to the Law on the Structure of State Administration. The motion was sent to the parliament into urgent procedure. Justice, Administration and Local Self-Government Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic explained that amendments to the Constitution and changes to the local self-government units system annulled the duality of counties being both units of local and state administration. The function of county prefect as a representative of the state government and having the duty of executive authority in a county has also been separated. Am
ZAGREB, May 31 (Hina) - State administration in counties should
soon be taken over by county state administrations which would be
led by a person appointed by the government following a public
tender, while county prefects would no longer be a state official
and would not answer to the government but rather to the county
assembly, the government decided today by adopting amendments to
the Law on the Structure of State Administration.
The motion was sent to the parliament into urgent procedure.
Justice, Administration and Local Self-Government Minister
Stjepan Ivanisevic explained that amendments to the Constitution
and changes to the local self-government units system annulled the
duality of counties being both units of local and state
administration. The function of county prefect as a representative
of the state government and having the duty of executive authority
in a county has also been separated.
Amendments to the Law on the State Administration System stipulate
that one body -- a county state administration -- should be
established to perform the state administration functions. The
present county offices would continue their work as internal units
within the county state administration.
The moved solutions do not apply to Zagreb City in which the work of
state administration will be solved soon by a law on the City of
Zagreb, Ivanisevic said.
Of the moved solutions, government representatives found those on
the possibility for a central state administration body to suggest
to local representation bodies to dismiss a prefect, mayor of
municipal commissioner, and the issue of the ownership of county
state administration premises to be the most problematic.
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