The system of local competences in the Romanian Public Administration

• Author: Dana Georgeta Alexandru
• Position: Faculty of Humanties and Social Sciences, Departament of International Relations, Political Sciences and Security Studies, University 'Lucian Blaga' of Sibiu, Romania
• Pages: 1-8

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2014), pp. 1-8

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THE SYSTEM OF LOCAL COMPETENCES IN THE ROMANIAN

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

D. G. Alexandru

Dana Georgeta Alexandru

Faculty of Humanties and Social Sciences

Departament of International Relations, Political Sciences and Security Studies

University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania

Corespondence: D. G. Alexandru, ULBS

Calea Dumbrvii St., no. 34, Sibiu, Romania

E-mail: dana.alexandru.g@gmail.com

Abstract

The extension of administrative tasks, originally endowed with powers of

supervision and maintain a social balance, it gradually became an engine that determines

changes, a new level of transformation. Given the current status of local collectivities,

through this research we intend to argue their tendency to become leading actors in the

landscape of administrative, political, economic and social.

Our study will consider the effects of the successive transfer of powers upon local

collectivities and its implications for the organization, mission and coooperation. These

circumstances arise many challenges for state and local collectivity: changing relations

between the institutions generated by the transfer of competences, redefining the maner of

intervention and coordination, taking into account the economic imperative and upgrading

administrative capacity at local level.

To understand the local collectivity administration system, we leave the general

considerations about the new trends of public administration, and we will analyze the legal

status of local competences set in terms of three dimensions: how they are defined, the extent

of competences and how to modify the powers.

Keywords: local collectivity, competences, state, public service

Introduction

The theoretical construction of the notion of competence is differently analyzed by

doctrine; from this perspective we notice the existence of a multitude of definitions,

doctrinary debates and nuanced conclusions regarding this concept.

The Romanian administrative doctrine

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has defined the notion of competence

starting from the correlation competence - capacity, on the one hand and the concept of

attributions on the other hand. It is estimated that the first two concepts are notions studied by

the administrative law, while the concept of attributions of the administration is of interest for

the science of administration.

The attributions of the public administration represent the objectives that the state

authorities must undertake within the executive activity that they carry out

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. These objectives

are based on state interests or on interests of the local communities, according to real social

needs. In order to perform its activity, the local community has legal powers, namely the

complex of rights and attributions or the authority that it has been invested with, for such

purpose.

The doctrine considers that there is a close connection between task and attribution,

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Dana Apostol Tofan, Instituii administrative europene , C. H. B eck Publishing House. Bucharest. 2006, p.94.

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I. Vâtu, M. Lepdtescu, I. Merlescu, M. Anghene, S faturile populare, organe locale ale puterii de stat în

R.S.R., Academiei Publishing House, Bucharest, 1964, p.91, apud. Ioan Santai, op.cit, p. 89.