Question 15: What is the role of the College of Voivodeships and what is our influence on its functioning?

15.1 The College of Voivodeships is a central public administration body coordinating public policy in the areas falling within the competence of the subnational governments, creating nationwide standards in the provision of public services by subnational governments, and supervising subnational government units.

15.2 The College of Voivodeships meets in the following panels:

15.2.I. The Education Panel;

15.2.II. The Science and Higher Education Panel;

15.2.III. The Entrepreneurship and Technology Panel;

15.2.IV. Family, Labor and Social Policy Panel;

15.2.V. Health Panel;

15.2.VI. Culture, Sport and Tourism Panel;

15.2.VII. Urban Planning and Infrastructure Panel

15.2.VIII. The Agricultural Policy Panel;

15.2.IX. The Justice and Accountability Panel;

15.2.X. The Finance and Voivodeship Property Panel;

15.2.XI. Administration Panel.

15.3 Each panel of the College of Voivodeships consists of Voivodeship Ministers, one from each voivodeship, responsible for public policy matters in the area of competence of a given panel. Where a given public policy area is covered by Close Cooperation between two or more voivodeships, the voivodeships shall be represented by the competent Inter-Voivodeship Minister. The Voivodeship or Inter-Voivodeship Minister may appoint one of the Vice-Ministers to represent our Voivodeship on a given panel of the College of Voivodeships.

15.4 Each panel of the College of Voivodeships deliberates separately and makes decisions electronically, through demokracja.gov.pl. Resolutions and votes of the panel of the College of Voivodeships are open, unless the law stipulates that a resolution, election or other decision is to be taken in an electronic confidential voting. Electronic voting may be accompanied by a traditional session, during which members of the panel are physically present in one place, or an electronic session during which the discussion is conducted through demokracja.gov.pl. The panel of the College of Voivodeships makes decisions by a majority of votes of the full panel weighted by the number of inhabitants of the represented voivodeships.

15.5. The panel of the College of Voivodeships enacts:

15.5.a. Recommendations for the subnational government authorities of our Voivodeship;

15.5.b. Regulations and technical standards binding on the authorities of the subnational government of our Voivodeship, after consultation with the [national] Minister competent for the matters which the regulations and technical standards relate to;

15.5.c. Draft regulations to be submitted to the [national] Council of Ministers or Ministers for approval;

15.5.d. Draft bills submitted to the Senate of the Republic of Poland.

15.6 The works of the panel of the College of Voivodeships are organized and chaired by a non-voting Executive Director elected by members of the panel from outside the panel for a two-year term of office. The panel of the College of Voivodeships may dismiss the Executive Director before the end of the term at the request of members of the panel representing at least 30% of citizens of the Republic of Poland.

15.7 The Executive Agency of the College of Voivodeships, headed by the Executive Director of a given panel, shall provide administrative support for the panel. With the consent of the [national] Council of Ministers, the panel of the College of Voivodeships may appoint more than one Executive Agency.

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