Transcript Document
Public administration of
regional development in
the European Union and
Poland
KSAP Conference, Warsaw, 19th of
January, 2011
Definitions
n Administration (lat. administrare – to be helpful) as an
organized activity executed by specific system and
heading for achieving specific goals (The Chancellery of the
Prime Minister of Poland)
n Regional development – an increase of an economic
potential of regions and permanent improvement of their
competitiveness and their inhabitants’ standard of living,
which causes a socio-economic development of the
country (the Polish Ministry of Regional Development)
n Administration as a striving to a holistic depiction of a
regional development (zob. Strategiczna problematyka rozwoju
Polski Wschodniej, s. 31)
n Administration as a management, conducting,
guidance and an indicating paths of activities,
Documents
n National Regional Development Strategy 2010-2020.
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Regions, Cities, Rural areas (NRDS)
National Spatial Management Concept 2030
Poland 2030: Development Challenges
Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion. Turning territorial
diversity into strength, COM (2008) 616, z dn. 6.10.2008
OECD Territorial Reviews
European Regional Policy Research Consortium (EoRPA)
Reports
Regions 2020. An Assessment of Future Challenges for
EU Regions
F. Barca’s Report: An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion
Policy
EU Cohesion Reports
Tendencies
n spatial approach: perceiving of diversity, strong
coordination, multi-level management (NRDS, p. 15,
73; EoRPA 2007, s. 90nn, compare with OECD documents)
n transferring competencies in realisation of
regional policy between different levels of
administration (regional development
programmes) (EoRPA 2007, p. 90 and following)
n coordination of regional policy as an
administration main task (EoRPA 2007, p. 100)
n resources management assigned for a
development decentralisation (hitherto distributed
by central departments) (NRDS, p. 10) and
partnership and subsidiary rules making real
(NRDS, p. 65)
Ideas for Poland
n Regional development goal:
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Effective use of specific regional and other
spatial development potentials for gaining
national development goals: increase,
employment and long-term cohesion (NRDS, p.
69)
Ideas for Poland: borderland
research
n Socio-economic situation and dynamics of
borderlands research
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Among priorities of the Borderland Co-operation
Commision functioning in structures of the PolishUkrainian Intergovernmental Coordination Council for
Interregional Cooperation
Publications: Monitoring zjawisk społecznogospodarczych na obszarach przygranicznych. The
European Union external border on Polish Territory,
Warsaw-Rzeszow 2010; Border traffic and movement
of goods and services at the Polish-Ukrainian border in
2009, Warsaw-Rzeszow 2010; Socio-economic
situation analysis of Polish-Ukrainian borderland,
Rzeszow 2009.
Ideas for Poland: borderland
research
n Plans: Polish and Lithuanian Statistical Offices
partnership
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Simultaneously to the European Union external border
research conducted currently in Poland
Resources for financing mutual research on the PolishLithuanian borderland would be obtained from:
Lithuania-Poland Cross-border Cooperation
Programme and Cross-border Cooperation
Programme Lithuania-Poland-Russia, one of the
European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instruments
Ideas for Poland: multi-regional
projects
n Development of Eastern Poland (Rozwój Polski
Wschodniej)
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Covers: podkarpackie, podlaskie, świętokrzyskie i
warmińsko-mazurskie voivodeships
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Goal: to accelerate a socio-economic development
speed of Eastern Poland according to rule of the
balanced development (compare with NRDS, p. 32)
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i. eg. „Lublin Project”
n Eastern Partnership (Partnerstwo Wschodnie)
n Goal: to create a place of information and experiences
exchange for parthership countries, which lead a function of
trust-building mechanism by regular meetings of countries
authorities, representatives and experts from all partnership
countries
n i. eg. Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz and statistical office from
Ukraine partnership
Ideas for Poland: centres of
knowledge
n Regional Research Centres in Voivodeships
n Creating bridges for local authorities, industries
and research and development units’ cooperation
(NRDS, p. 15)
n Territorial Observatories
n The Ministry of Regional Development wills to
create observatories, which would control the
situation in the territory of its interest from the level
of voivodeship authorities (NRDS, p. 151)
n Regional Development Agencies
n Institutions encouraging regional development
(compare with The Idea of New Regional Policy.
Expertises/Koncepcja nowej polityki regionalnej. Ekspertyzy, pp.
Ideas for Poland: Lisbonian
strategy
n The Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz and National
Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut
national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE;),
Lille/France partnership
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Both institutions are going to cooperate for preparing
the publication about socio-economic situation of
Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region and Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Voivodeship on the basis of lisbonian indices, in
which the main topic would be the employment
market; publication is going to be released in the
beginning of 2012
Ideas for Europe
n Regional development paradigm
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administration by integrated, „soft” and „hard”
instruments, social capital, business milieu,
networking, effective coordination (NRDS, p. 15)
Ideas for Europe: management
strategies
n reduce the administrative burden and
development initiatives (Spain, Sweden; EoRPA
2007, passim)
n regional policy treated as a "common task" of
individual states and federal levels (Germany,
EoRPA 2007, p. 94)
n centralized implementation of regional policy
(which is rational design due to the small size of
the country) (Ireland, Luxembourg, EoRPA 2007, p. 9495)
Ideas for Europe: multi-regional
projects
n Territorial Co-operation Projects, i.eg.
n Belgium, Region Wallonne, France, Regions
Lorraine and Alsace, At the crossroads of
three borders;
n Bulgaria, et al., New Danube bridge to speed
up international traffic;
n Belarus, Wheels rolling for Baltic tourism;
n Germany, Lithuania, Norway, et al., Baltic Sea
innovation boosted with new tools of the trade;
source: www.ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/projects
Ideas for Europe: supporting
the economy
n infrastructure projects focused on
development and economic activity
(industrial parks, improvement of transport
and energy infrastructure, modernization of
education and training units) (Germany, EoRPA
2007, p. 83), administrative support for
investment and innovation (ibidem)
Ideas for Europe: centres of
knowledge
n i. eg. Competence Centers Programme
(implementation of research clusters to promote
the growth of cooperation between the Centres,
so they better compete on the international arena
and the improvement of regional specialization)
and the Regional Centres Programme (improving
the competitiveness and the revitalization of
urban regions) (Finland, EoRPA 2007, p. 82); decisions
about the allocation of funds to regional
programmes taken by the Regional Council
(Finland, EoRPA 2007, p. 93)
Problems
n Delimitation:
n administrative divisions do not coincide with
territorial boundaries of regions underlying the
programming of EU funds (the incompatibility of
the administrative structure), making it difficult for
government actions, but should serve the activities
of development institutions and businesses, the
extent of which often go beyond an administrative
district
n solution: Different approaches for different types of
territories. Policy suited to local conditions, taking
into account links between areas that generate
growth, areas functionally depended and remote
Problems
n ”Political vacuum”
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advantage of government administration at the
regional level, low interest in cooperation
and/or administration of the region from
representatives of business, the differences
between cities and rural areas
solution: regional development strategies,
decentralization of the allocation of funds, a
territorial approach mentioned above
Conclusion
n To mark the trends in regional policy,
propositions
of
solving
problems
associated with the regional development
and an extent of interregional projects and
cooperation between local authorities and
research centers indicate that the
proposed administration strategy of
regional development issue, with the idea
of a coherent plans is focused on the
needs of actors associated with the
regional activities
Thank you for your attention…