South Bohemian Region

The regional office fulfills tasks in an independent capacity assigned to it by the council and the council and assists the activities of committees and commissions. The council can impose tasks on the regional office only within the scope of its powers entrusted to it by law. The regional office exercises delegated authority, with the exception of matters entrusted by law to the council and the council or a special body. The relevant extract of Act 129/2000 Coll., on regions is available below.

Text of Act 129/2000 Coll.

A closer explanation of the concepts of independent and delegated competence:

Independent jurisdiction (§ 2 para. 1 et seq. § 14 et seq. of Act No. 129/2000 Coll., on Regions, as amended by later regulations, hereinafter referred to as the Act on Regions"), is the authority of a region to administer matters relating to dispositions by its own decisions with its property and its administration, the budget of the region, the development of the region, cooperation of the region with municipalities, other regions, other legal and natural persons and territorial self-governing units of other states and the regulation of the rights and obligations of legal and natural persons on the territory of the region by generally binding decrees. jurisdiction, the region is bound by laws and other legal regulations issued on the basis of the law. The independent jurisdiction of the region is exercised by the regional council, or the council (Sections 35 and 36 and § 59 of the Act on Regions). The regional office performs tasks in the independent competence imposed on it by the council and the council and assists in the activities of committees established by the council and commissions established by the council (§ 66 of the Act on Regions).

The transferred competence (Section 2, paragraph 2, hereinafter, § 29 et seq. Act on Regions) is the authority of the regional authorities to carry out state administration in the administrative district of the region to the extent stipulated by law. In the performance of state administration in the transferred competence, the region decides on the rights and obligations of legal entities and natural persons and in other matters regulated by laws and other legal regulations, or by government resolutions and directives of central administrative authorities issued or adopted on the basis of law. The transferred authority is exercised by the regional authority, unless its performance is entrusted by law to the council, council or special body (§ 67 of the Act on Regions).