Decentralized Administration of Attica
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| agency_name = Decentralized Administration
of Attica
| nativename = {{lang|el|Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αττικής}}
| seal = Coat of arms of Greece.svg
| seal_width = 100px
| formed = {{start date|2011|01|01|df=y}}
| jurisdiction = Government of Greece
| headquarters = Athens, Attica
| coordinates =
| region_code = EL
| employees = 698
| budget =
| chief1_name =
| chief1_position = Acting Secretary-General
| website = {{url|http://www.apdattikis.gov.gr/}}
| map = Attiki in Greece.svg
| map_width = 260px
| map_caption = Location of Attica in Greece
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| header1 = Area served
| label2 = Supervised region
| data2 = Attica
| label3 = Regional units
| data3 = 8
| label4 = Municipalities
| data4 = 66
| label5 = Area
| data5 = {{convert|3808|km2|abbr=on}}
| label6 = Population
| data6 = {{formatnum:3828434}} {{small|(as of 2011)}}{{cite web|publisher=Hellenic Statistical Authority |title=Demographic and social characteristics of the Resident Population of Greece according to the 2011 Population - Housing Census revision of 20/3/2014 |date=12 September 2014 |url=http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1602/PressReleases/A1602_SAM01_DT_DC_00_2011_03_F_EN.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908142240/http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1602/PressReleases/A1602_SAM01_DT_DC_00_2011_03_F_EN.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-08 }}
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The Decentralized Administration of Attica ({{langx|el|Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αττικής}}) is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, solely consisting of the region of Attica. Its seat is Athens.
Formation and tasks
{{main|Decentralized administrations of Greece}}
Decentralized Administrations were created in January 2011 as part of a far-reaching reform of the country's administrative structure, the Kallikratis reform (Law 3852/2010).{{sfn|Ministry of Interior|2013|p=10 f.}}
They enjoy both administrative and financial autonomy{{harvnb|Ministry of Interior|2013|p=12}} and exercise devolved state powers in urban planning, environmental and energy policy, forestry, migration and citizenship.{{sfn|Ministry of Interior|2013|p=27}} Beyond that, they are tasked with supervising the first and second-level self-governing bodies: the municipalities and regions, in this case the 66 municipalities of Attica and the region itself.
Characteristics
Covering an area of {{convert|3808|km2|abbr=on}}, Attica is by far the smallest, but with an overall population of {{formatnum:3828434}} also by far the most populated of the seven decentralized administrations.
In the European NUTS nomenclature, Attica forms the first level NUTS region EL3 (Attiki).
General Secretary
The Decentralized Administration is led by a Secretary-General ({{lang|el|Γενικός Γραμματέας}}) who is appointed or dismissed by a Cabinet decision upon request of the Greek Minister of Interior,{{sfn|Ministry of Interior|2013|p=19}} and is therefore considered the senior representative of the national government in the regions.
In January 2014, Manolis Angelakas (Nea Dimokratia), who previously had been responsible for Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, was appointed Secretary-General.{{cite web |url=http://www.apdattikis.gov.gr/?page_id=101 |script-title=el:Γενικός Γραμματέας Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης |trans-title=General Secretary of the Decentralized Administration |access-date=3 April 2015}} Following the electoral victory of Syriza in January 2015, the new Minister for the Interior, Nikos Voutsis, declared that the decentralized administrations would be abolished, and their powers transferred to the regions. Until this reform is formalized, and as the Secretaries-General appointed by the previous administration resigned on 2 February, the decentralized administrations are run by their senior civil servants as Acting Secretaries-General.{{cite news | url = http://www.kathimerini.gr/802297/article/epikairothta/ellada/katarghsh-apokentrwmenwn-dioikhsewn | author = Tania Georgiopoulou | script-title=el:Κατάργηση Αποκεντρωμένων Διοικήσεων | publisher = Kathimerini | language = el | date = 5 February 2015 | access-date = 4 April 2015}}{{cite news | url = http://www.aftodioikisi.gr/proto-thema/o-voutsis-katargei-tis-apokentromenes-dioikiseis-kinisi-mat-iper-ton-aireton-perifereion | script-title=el:Ο Βούτσης «καταργεί» τις Αποκεντρωμένες Διοικήσεις – Κίνηση-ματ υπέρ των αιρετών Περιφερειών | language = el | publisher = aftodioikisi.gr | date = 3 February 2015 | access-date = 4 April 2015}}
=List of secretaries-general=
- Ilias Liakopoulos (PASOK), January 2011 – August 2012
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Dimitris Kalogeropoulos|el|3=Δημήτρης Καλογερόπουλος}} (Nea Dimokratia), August 2012 – January 2014
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Manolis Angelakas|pl|3=Emanuil Angelakas}} (Nea Dimokratia), January 2014 – February 2015
References
{{reflist|25em}}
Literature
- {{cite web |author=Ministry of Interior |author-link=Ministry of the Interior (Greece) |url=https://wcd.coe.int/com.instranet.InstraServlet?command=com.instranet.CmdBlobGet&InstranetImage=2242294&SecMode=1&DocId=1988386&Usage=2 |title=Structure and operation of local and regional democracy | publisher=Council of Europe |date=January 2013 }}
External links
- {{official website}} {{in lang|el}}
{{Decentralized Administrations of Greece}}