Part II. Questions Concerning Individual Institutions 0f The Government of Our Voivodeship
Question 11: How can our Voivodeship take up Close Cooperation with other Voivodeships?
11.1 Our Voivodeship may undertake Close Cooperation with other Voivodeship or Voivodeships in any area of public affairs, obviously within the competence of the subnational government of our Voivodeship. The establishment of such Close Cooperation takes place in accordance with Voivodeship Resolutions passed by the Diet and the Senate of our Voivodeship and by the Diet and the Senate of the Voivodeship or Voivodeships adopting Close Cooperation with us. At any time, our Voivodeship may terminate Close Cooperation by a Voivodeship Resolution. Conforming Voivodeship Resolutions on the basis of which Close Cooperation was established may provide for a transitional period, not longer than three years, from the declaration of the termination until the time when the Close Cooperation actually ends as well as a method of settling public expenditure incurred within the framework of Close Cooperation.
11.2 In the area of public matters covered by the Close Cooperation, the legislative authority is held by joint electronic sessions of the Diets and Senates of all the Voivodeships that are part of the Close Cooperation. Such connected electronic sessions are held through demokracja.gov.pl and are open to the public.
11.3 Joint electronic sessions of Diets shall adopt Inter-Voivodeship Resolutions and other decisions by a majority of votes of the full composition of the combined Diets of all the voivodeships belonging to the Close Cooperation, weighted by the number of inhabitants of the represented voivodeship. Joint electronic sessions of the Voivodeship Senates take decisions by a majority of votes of the full composition of the combined Senates of all the voivodeships belonging to the Close Cooperation weighted as in the Senate of our Voivodeship.
11.4 Voivodeships belonging to the Close Cooperation may, in an Inter-Voivodeship Resolution, create the function of the Inter-Voivodeship Minister responsible for administering the area of Close Cooperation. Such a resolution regulates the method of financing of the Inter-Voivodeship Minister and the Inter-Voivodeship Ministry directed by them.
11.5. A candidate for the Inter-Voivodeship Minister shall be proposed, in a joint declaration the Voivodes of all the voivodeships belonging to the Close Cooperation. Appointment to the position of Inter-Voivodeship Minister requires the consent of the Diets of all the voivodeships belonging to the Close Cooperation. Each of the Voivodes and Diets may at any time dismiss the Inter-Voivodeship Minister. The Inter-Voivodeship Minister is a member of the Voivodeship Council of Ministers of our Voivodeship, just like the Voivodeship Minister.
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