3.4 Local level of the administrative system: institutions, their authority, function and tasks

Each local government of 227 cities and rural municipalities has administrative apparatus which provides services to the local government and to the local people. The size of administrative staff varies a lot, depending on the size of the local municipality - from over thousand administrative officials in Tallinn to less than five in very small local municipalities. The bigger administrative organisations have also more complicated administrative structures with offices, departments, divisions and bureaus.


The report relies on the official translations of legal acts and on the materials presented in the English versions of web pages published by state authorities; The presentation of the history of the constitutional system uses the resources from this web page .)