Government Office Of Vas County

The capital or county government offices are territorial state administrative organs of the Government with general competence, and as such the biggest administrative units at territorial level. The altogether 20 government offices are located in the county seat cities and in the case of the capital city and Pest County in Budapest.In line with the Act CXXVI of 2010 and the Government Decree No. 66/2015 (III.30) government offices coordinate and further the implementation of government policies at territorial level. They exercise coordinative, authority-type, proposing and consultative powers, allowing the adjustment of central decisions, policies to territorial characteristics and needs during planning and implementation.As public authorities they have more than thousand official competencies and responsibilities. Since the 1st of January 2017, partly as a result of the reorganization of administrative competencies within and between the central and territorial level, the capital and county government offices act as second instance authorities in cases initiated at the district office level, are authorities of the first instance in administrative actions falling within their guaranteed or newly allocated competencies, and in accordance with the Fundamental Law of Hungary they also exercise legal oversight over local self-governments. Related to the fulfilment of their tasks, government offices contribute to the elaboration and territorial implementation of certain sectorial strategies. In doing so, they take into consideration the territorial/local investment environment, gather the experiences of the territorial/local stakeholders (employers, universities, municipalities, professional chambers, civil organisations, etc.) and communicate them towards the national decision-makers.