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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Percent of state public spending8,5%

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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

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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