Aspect

Level

Instiutions

Competence/ Functions

Tasks

National level

Cabinet of Ministers

 Decision making power and executive power

- realizes supervision, control, legal regulation of the activity of other state executive power institutions

- ensures implementation of the law and decisions of Parliament in the whole state territory;

- ensures economic development;

- administrates state property;

- implements public order and safety;

- ensures state external protection;

- ensures state internal protection;

- ensures state foreign policy cooperation with international organizations, other states and representation of the interests of the Republic of Latvia;

- ensures state apparatus activity;

- tackles social and culture problems;

These functions are realised, using following tools:

- elaborating budget project;

- implementing legislation initiative rights;

- organizing state administration structural organization and reorganization, regulation;

- making decisions and orders, based on the law in its competence framework;

- responsible to Parliament for its activity, Parliament has rights to get introduced with the activity and decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers.

- organizes work of the Cabinet of Ministers - organizes sessions,

- ensures preparation of the documentation of the Cabinet of Ministers, administrates its record keeping;

- participates in state policy planning;

- coordinates single state policy planning and implementation, in cooperation with ministries submits proposals of the Cabinet of Ministers regarding state development priorities;

- ensures elaboration of state administration development policy, coordinates and controls its implementation;

- coordinates and controls implementation of the decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers and President of Ministers;

- informs society regarding work of the Cabinet of Ministers.

- elaborate sectoral policy;

- organize and coordinate implementation of sectoral policy;

- carry out other functions stated in external normative acts;

- elaborate projects of legal acts and policy planning documents which regulate a sector;

- gives resolutions on the elaborated projects of legal acts and policy planning documents by other institutions;

- issue administrative acts in cases determined in external normative acts;

- ensure implementation of sectoral policy in state administration institutions, state enterprises and companies (where ministry is state shareholder) which are under ministry's control;

- submit proposals regarding necessary financing from the state budget  to carry out tasks given by the ministry;

- in the framework of its competence represents state's interests in international organizations and institutions of the European Union;

- implement functions, as well as supervises the institutions which are under the ministry's control;

- ensures efficient elaboration of state study applications and usage of study results;

- cooperate with other state administration institutions in elaboration and implementation of the single state policy;

- informs society regarding the sectoral policy and activity of institutions which are under the ministry's control, consult with nongovernmental organizations in the decision making process, foster social dialog regarding issues connected with policy elaboration and implementation, as well as involve society representatives in state administration.

Regional level

Planning region

Regional executive power

- ensures region's development planning, coordination;

- ensures cooperation of municipalities and other state administration institutions,

- manages and controls preparation and implementation of planning region's development programmes and spatial plans;

- evaluates conformation of the national plan, national development plan and sectoral development programs to the planning region's documents;

-evaluates project applications of the local municipalities or private person to receive regional development state support.

District municipalities

Regional decision making power and executive power

- ensure civil protection events;

- organize public transport service;

- ensure representation of municipalities in regional in sickness insurance institution;

- organize further education of  educational employees;

- carry out other stated by the law and delegated functions.

Local level

Local authorities - city, county and parish municipalities

Local decision making power and executive power

- organize public utility service;

- ensure improvement and sanitary control of the respective administrative territory;

- state order, how public forest and water can be utilized;

- ensure education of the inhabitants;

- take care for the maintenance of cultural and traditional culture values;

- ensure health care, foster healthy life - style;

- ensure social care;

- protect children rights and interests; carry out calculation of them;

- solve living problems;

- foster economic, decrease unemployment 

- issue permissions and licences for business activity;

- ensure public order;

- determine land utilization and building order in accordance with the spatial plan of the respective municipality;

- ensure legality of the building process of the respective administrative territory;

- carry out registration of civil registration records;

- supply information for the state statistic needs;

- organize elections of assessors and the council;

- ensure civil protection events;

- carry out other stated by the law and delegated functions.