Delegating competences to local public administration will include also ensuring with financial resources

Delegating competences to the central public administration to the local one will necessarily include ensuring with sufficient financial resources for their implementation. This stipulation was included in the Law on administrative decentralization and the new Law on local public administration, adopted by the Parliament in first reading. According to the provisions, the public services which are included in the Constitution and are guaranteed and ensured exclusively by the state can not be decentralized and transferred. According to the authors, these provisions will exclude the present practice of imposing certain responsibilities without offering financial, organizational and functional support. The Law on administrative decentralization will also include that the in the localities where the administrative expenses exceed 30% of the total sum of own incomes local public authorities can not activate. The Law also stipulates that the local public authorities are financially autonomous and the budgetary process at local level is separated from the national one. The new Law on local public administration includes rules on delimitating compulsory and optional competences. The draft settles the legal statute of the Mayor and his deputies and the right of the council to decide upon all the local problems and the number of deputy-mayors according to the needs of the locality. As well, the competences of the Mayor are correlated with those of the local council. Referring to this draft, the communist MP Valeri Garev proposed to include in the bill the office of Chairman of the local council. This proposal will be examined in second reading. The Parliament will adopt the projects in second reading in the autumn-winter session.