Explaining Coverage: Why do Local Governments in Central Europe join (or not join) Euroregions?

2016 ◽  
pp. 233-258
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Local Governments

The law stated that 51 per cent of shares in the enterprises processing agricultural produce were to be given free to farms. The remaining shares could be sold to farms or members of the staff working at the enterprises either for privatization certificates or for cash (Business Central Europe, December 1995–January 1996, p. 27). In early 1996 parliament approved a largely unchanged law, which proposed giving collective farm directors a free 51 per cent stake in the agro-industrial enterprises, mostly in food processing and handling. The law would effectively remove half the enterprises from the voucher privatization programme. The 4,270 agro-industrial enterprises, both private and state-owned, would be sold afresh. It is not exactly clear, but agro-industrial workers could mop up the remaining shares through a closed auction or the remaining stake could be sold through the voucher programme. President Kuchma vetoed the bill on 21 February 1996. (Parliamentary speaker Moroz called on local governments to ignore a November 1995 decree which cautiously mandated limited sales of land within collectives, which are slowly being broken up.) (FT, 8 February 1996, p. 33; and 22 February 1996, p. 2.) ‘The agricultural sector … consists mostly of bankrupt state-owned farms, 95 per cent of which lost money last year [1998]’ (Business Central Europe, December 1999–January 2000, p. 29).

2004 ◽  
pp. 608-613
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Collective Farm ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
The Law ◽  
Voucher Privatization

COVID-19 crisis will raise EU-Central European tension

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central European ◽  
Containment Measures

Subject The economic impact of COVID-19 on Central Europe. Significance The economic sudden stop which the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in the three non-euro-area states of Central Europe (CE-3) is unprecedented and profound. It is due to the confluence of aggressive containment measures to halt the spread of the disease, the collapse in trade with the euro-area (especially Germany) and the rush to safety in financial markets. The pandemic is further straining ties between CE-3 and Brussels, a relationship already frayed by battles over the EU’s trillion-euro budget and marked differences in responses to the crisis. Impacts The region’s auto industry is slowly reopening, Toyota’s Polish plant following Audi’s Hungarian engine factory and Hyundai’s Czech works. Governments will closely watch the phased lifting of restrictions elsewhere to assess the effectiveness and sustainability of strategies. In Hungary, the central government is suspected of discriminating against opposition-held local governments in its crisis response.

Florida Agritourism Building and Fire Codes

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Henry ◽  
Kathryn A Stofer
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Agricultural Operations ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Fire Codes

Agritourism marries Florida’s two largest industries, tourism and agriculture, to provide an on-farm recreational experience for consumers. Although Florida trails many other states in the number of agritourism operations, the number of Florida farms offering recreational experiences more than doubled from 2007 to 2012. This new 4-page document describes building codes relevant to Florida agritourism operations. Written by Mary Beth Henry and Kathryn A. Stofer, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc349 A companion document, Florida’s Agritourism Laws, EDIS publication AEC623, Florida’s Agritourism Laws, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc285, discusses Florida Statutes related to definitions, liability protections, and limits to regulatory authority of local governments over bona fide agricultural operations engaged in agritourism.

Fiscal Decentralization in Transition Economies

2004 ◽  
pp. 126-141
Author(s):  
A. Chernyavsky ◽  
K. Vartapetov
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Finance Reform ◽  
Fiscal Transfers ◽  
Fiscal Autonomy ◽  
Subnational Government ◽  
Tax Autonomy

By employing the methodology developed by the OECD the paper assesses the degree of revenue decentralization in Russia in comparison with other post-communist European countries. The paper provides theoretical arguments underpinning fiscal decentralization, analyzes the composition of subnational government revenues, the level of regional and local tax autonomy and types of intergovernmental fiscal transfers. The analysis presents the composition of revenues depending on the degree of subnational and local government control. In comparison with other transition countries fiscal decentralization in Russia is relatively low. It is concluded that Russia's public finance reform has not progressed towards providing greater fiscal autonomy for regional and local governments.

OPTIMALISASI PERAN PEMDA DALAM MENGATASI KENDALA PELAKSANAAN KONSERVASI KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI DI DAERAH (STUDI KASUS PROVINSI BENGKULU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antung Deddy Radiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Policies

Gaps in biodiversity conservation management within the Conservation Area that are the responsibility of the central government and outside the Conservation Areas or as the Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA) which are the authority of the Regional Government, have caused various spatial conflicts between wildlife /wild plants and land management activities. Several obstacles faced by the Local Government to conduct its authority to manage (EEA), caused the number and area of EEA determined by the Local Government to be still low. At present only 703,000 ha are determined from the 67 million ha indicated by EEA. This study aims to overview biodiversity conservation policies by local governments and company perceptions in implementing conservation policies and formulate strategies for optimizing the role of Local Governments. From the results of this study, there has not been found any legal umbrella for the implementation of Law number 23/ 2014 related to the conservation of important ecosystems in the regions. This regulatory vacuum leaves the local government in a dilemma for continuing various conservation programs. By using a SWOT to the internal strategic environment and external stratetegic environment of the Environment and Forestry Service, Bengkulu Province , as well as using an analysis of company perceptions of the conservation policies regulatary , this study has been formulated a “survival strategy” through collaboration between the Central Government, Local Governments and the Private Sector to optimize the role of Local Government’s to establish EEA in the regions.Keywords: Management gaps, Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA), Conservation Areas, SWOT analysis and perception analysis

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