Übersetzung für "devolution authority " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

23. Underlines the importance of the decentralisation process in improving the functioning of the state by bringing it closer to the citizens, while at the same time respecting their right to provincial autonomy and local self-government; in this context, welcomes the adoption of the Law on National Minority Councils, which regulates the competences and the election of national minority councils in a way that is in line with international standards; recognises the progress in the implementation of the November 2006 Constitution through the adoption of the Statute and the Law on the competencies of Vojvodina; calls for the process of devolution of power to be cont ...[+++]inued by the adoption of the Law on public incomes and by the Law on the public property of Vojvodina and local municipalities, which will allow Vojvodina to start wielding authority under the new Statute; moreover, calls for further political efforts to address the aspirations of the Albanian minority in Preševo valley to local administration by swift provision of appropriate funds to be distributed in consultation with the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja; at the same time, stresses the key responsibility of the representatives of the Albanian minority and urges them to discourage strident nationalistic and secessionist rhetoric, which is in sharp contrast to basic European values; equally, underlines the importance of integration of Serbs into these local government bodies;

This process has often resulted in profound changes in the way in which these services are organised, provided and financed, including the emergence of new areas of action, the recourse to outsourcing of services previously provided directly by public authorities and an increasing devolution of competences to the local level.

The answer cannot be given a priori and requires a case-by-case analysis: the reality of these services is often specific and differs widely from one Member State to another, and indeed from one local authority to another; the ways in which they are provided are constantly evolving as a response to new economic, social and institutional developments, such as shift in consumer demands, technological change, the modernisation of public administrations and the devolution of responsibilities to the local level.

Although the extent of devolution of responsibility for the provision of services to regional or local authorities varies markedly across the Union according to the degree of decentralisation of political power -- which, partly but by no means entirely, reflects whether or not there is a federal or unitary system of government -- there is a common concern in Member States to ensure that the level of provision does not differ too much between localities.

The establishment of a rational division of competences between the Union and the Member States must therefore entail a challenge to the virtual monopoly of the power to enact constitutional provisions held by the national governments and the partial or total devolution of that power to an authority which is less keen on safeguarding the prerogatives of each of the Member States and more determined to base the division of competences on the principle of subsidiarity, i.e. on common sense.

The involvement of regional and local authorities into the process of preparation of the NAPs is mainly confined to the regional level, particularly in the Member States where a process of devolution is under way or where a federal or quasi-federal political structure exits.