Regional Council (North Rhine-Westphalia)
In North Rhine-Westphalia, regional councils are local authorities based in the district governments , which decide on tasks in regional development.
As part of the second law for the modernization of government and administration in North Rhine-Westphalia , the district planning councils previously settled with the district government were converted into regional councils and their competencies supplemented and their composition changed. The legal basis for the regional councils are §§ 6–11 of the State Planning Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (LPlG NRW). Advisory obligations also result from the state's specialist planning laws.
The regional council consists of voting and advisory members. The voting members are sent according to the party proportion of the local elections in the respective administrative district, two-thirds from the district assemblies and councils of the independent cities, and another third from reserve lists. The regional council is constituted after the local elections. Advisory members are the mayors of the independent cities as well as the district administrators , representatives of employers and employees, of sports associations, of nature conservation associations as well as the municipal equality bodies and originally the regional offices for women and work.
The central task of the regional council is to draw up the regional plan ( formerly the area development plan in North Rhine-Westphalia), which is drawn up by the district planning authority ( the district government) (Section 9 (1) LPlG NRW). Furthermore, the regional council is informed by the district government about all regionally significant developments and has an advisory function for the district government for planning, measures and funding programs in the areas of town planning, housing, school and sports facility construction, hospital construction, traffic, leisure and recreation, landscape maintenance, Water management, waste disposal and contaminated sites, culture and tourism (Section 9 (2) LPlG NRW). The regional council has the right to propose funding programs and measures of regional importance, in particular in coordination with the regional conferences (§ 9 Paragraph 3 LPlG NRW) as well as for "traffic infrastructure planning [...] and the annual expansion programs for state roads and funding programs for municipal road construction and local public transport ”(§ 9 Paragraph 4 LPlG NRW). The regional council also advises the state planning authority and the municipalities with regard to compliance with the objectives of spatial planning (Section 9 (5) LPlG NRW).
The internal organization is decided by a regional council under its own responsibility. In all North Rhine-Westphalian regional councils, the decisions are prepared in committees.
For the area of the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR), the association assembly of the RVR ("Ruhrparlament") has performed the function of a regional council since November 2009.
supporting documents
- ↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?anw_nr=2&gld_nr=2&ugl_nr=230&bes_id=7530&aufgehoben=N&menu=1&sg=0#det275996 Text of the law