STRONG POLISH REGIONS
AND EUROPEAN REGIONAL POLICY
Jacek Kozłowski
Mazovia Region Governor
Budapest, 29 September 2013 r.
REFORMS IN POLAND AFTER 1989
1. POLITICAL SYSTEM
2. ECONOMY
3. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PHASE 1 (1989-1990)
PHASE 2 (1998-2000)
PHASE 3 (2008-2009)
Democratic transition from 4th July 1989 elections to implementing new constitution at 1997
Building free market economy from the „shock therapy” 1989/90
Decentralisation according to the constitutional principles (subsidiary and unitary state)
Local selfgovernment (municipalities)(first local elections May 1990)
Regional reform (county and regional selfgovernment, new territorial division)
Transparent division of competences, Re-introduction of civil service act.
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MUNICIPALITY (2 500)2,5 – 1 200 th.
15 th. (7 th. rural) 8,5%
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VOIVODE (GOVERNOR)
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territorial administrations3. Public safety and public order4. State treasury representative5. Legal control of
selfgovernmental administration decisions.
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P U B L I C A D M I N I S T R A T I O N S T R U C T U R E
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COUNTY (314+65 cities)
25 – 1200 th.85 th.
V O I V O D E S H I P16
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CENTRAL
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* Unified governmental county administrations: - police - fite department - construction safety inspections - sanitary and veterinary inspections
VOIVODE (GOVERNOR)
1. State territorial representative2. Head of the governmental
territorial administrations3. Public safety and public order4. State treasury representative5. Legal control of
selfgovernmental administration decisions.
Percent of state public spending8,5%
1,4%
1,1%
89%
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Regional Administrative Division before 1999
Regional Administrative Division from 2000
Mazovia in XVI century
ABSORPTION OF THE EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL FUNDS(ERDF, EFS)
TOTAL ALLOCATION REGIONAL ALLOCATION € bln € bln (%)
2004 – 2006
2007 – 2013
2014 – 2020
8,6
67,3
72,9
2,97 (20,9%)
17,3 (25,7%)
28,1 (38,5%)
GDP per capita(2006)
source:„Growing regions - growing Europe"- Fourth report on economic and social cohesion, 2007.
MAZOVIA
Area: 35 558 km2
11,4% of the total
Population: 5,3 mln14% of the total
GDP: 71,51 Euro bln22,3 % of the total (2011)
PŁOCK
OSTROŁĘKA
SIEDLCE
RADOM
WARSZAWA
WARSAW METROPOLITAN AREA
Area: 6 200 km2
Population: 3,04 mln
Counties: 37
Cities: 5 Municipalities: 314
DECENTRALISATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN POLAND
KEY RESULTS
1. Support of the political and economical transition to democracy and market economy
2. Strenghthening of the civic society
3. Support of the local and regional growth and absorption of the EU structural funds
4. Rising of the quality of local public services
5. Creating more efficient and better managed public administration
DECENTRALISATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN POLAND
CRUCIAL FACTORS OF SUCCESS
1. Fast and broad first selfgovernmental reform 1989/90 coordinated with political and economical „shock therapy”
2. Polish municipalities relatively bigger than in the majority of European countries, which allowed to decentralise relatively broad stock of competences
3. Long and massive public consultations before regional reform
4. Very long tradition of big regions (from XI century)
5. Similar size of the Polish regions to Germany, France, Spain and Italy
6. Stability of the new territorial division