Presentation of the Hungarian Local Government system Presentation of the Hungarian Local Government system OSLO 22 April Jenő Schmidt President of TÖOSZ, Leader of the Delegation

The map of the Hungarian public administration

Structure of Hungarian municipalities from the perspective of their population 12 October, Number of all local governments: 3178 Communes with less than 50 inhabitants: 27 (smallest: Iborfia 12 inhabitants) Less than 200 inhabitants: 352 Less than 500 inhabitants: (33%) Less than1000 inhabitants: (54%) Less than 2000 inhabitants: (74%) – six of them are towns! Municipalities with less than inhabitants: 3033 (95%) Above inhabitants: 20 (0,6%) - out of this over inhabitants: 9 Average inhabitants / municipality: 3153 Average number of Inhabitants living in the countryside that is not in Budapest:

Division of municipality / inhabitants from the perspective of counties

Categories of municipalities and the structure of the population 1. Division of local governments according to the types of municipalities 2. Division of the population according to the types of municipalities

Local Government structure I. Local Governments  Communes, (large-communes) – 2809 (104)  Towns – 346 ( =170)  Towns that are center of districts /townships– 175 (-23=152)  Towns with county rank - 23  Capital -1  Capital District - 23 II. Territorial Local Government - 20  County local government – territorial development, rural development, spatial planning, coordination  Capital Local Government Fővárosi önkormányzat

Districts / Township From 1 January 2013, there are 175 township / district offices and 23 capital district offices. These are the middle-level organs of the public administration system and they are operated at center of districts (offices and communal civil servants) Regions Serve organizational, statistical and development objectives Corresponds to the NUTS 2 level, the country is covered by 7 regions ( Central Hungary, Central Transdanubia, Western-Transdanubia, Southern Transdanubia, Northern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain, Northern Hungary )

Principal changes - 1 New roles of the State Re-division of tasks and powers – increasing role of the state in public service provision Monopolization /Transfer of public education, schools to state (Klebelsberg Institution - Maintenance Centre) – at municipalities under inhabitants, state is the maintainer and operator of schools - at municipalities over inhabitants state is the maintainer and the local government is the operator of schools Partial nationalization of health care - Nationalization of municipal hospitals, termination of the business organization form - Mixed maintenance of institutions dealing with outpatient-care Basic health care services and on-call medical services remain local government tasks

Principal Changes - 2 Organization of state public administration into district offfices - Small part of the regulatory tasks of notaries were transferred to district offices Termination of local government offices of small municipalities (under 2000 people) - Local government offices continue to undertake public administrational official tasks - Addressee of the power related to privileged first degree construction issues is the Notary of the District Center Town New division of tasks: – mayor – deputy-mayor– notary Refinement of task-financing and division of resources Strong state supervision from 2012 Limitation on taking up loans from 2012, further restrictions from 2013 Local Government Debt Consolidation

New approach 6. § In the course of its task-provision the local government: a) supports the self-organizing communities of the population, cooperates with these communities, provides for wide-range citizen participation in local public affairs; b) Strengthens the self- sustainability of the municipality, assesses its possibilities and profits from its own resources; c) Based on the authorization of law – in its decree it may bind the use of certain public services to prescribed conditions.

Possibilities of Local Governments Realization of Subsidiarity Organization of micro-regions within the districts Cooperation, partnership, inter-municipal cooperation New types of local government offices and roles Strengthening of partnership between the state and the local governments and the local governments themselves Protection of local government property

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