The Regional Council of the Severozapad Cohesion Region

Seat: Masarykova 3488/1, 400 01 Ústí nad Labem

Identification Number: 75082136

Bank Account Number: 4361022/0800

The Regional Council of the Severozapad Cohesion Region (hereafter „The Regional Council“) is a legal person, esteblished with effect from 1.7.2006 in territorial district of the statistic unit NUTS 2, region Severozapad and it´s based on amendment of the act Nr.  248/2000 Coll. on regional development support, as later amended; on act Nr.  138/2006 Coll., amending some acts in connection with the adoption of the Act on public procurement contracts).
The Regional Council of the cohesion region Severozapad is the managing authority of NUTS 2 Severozapad Regional Operational Programme (hereafter ROP) for the period 2007 – 2013, and it continuously provides implementation of the Common Regional Operational Programme (hereafter SROP) at the same time. It continues in activities of the Secretariat of The Regional Council, which was cancelled with effect from the date of mentioned amendment of the Act on regional development support.
The Act 248/2000 Coll., on regional development support specifies the scope of competence of the Regional Council.

According to Section 16 Par 4 Act No. 138/2006 Coll. the bodies of the Regional Council of the Severozapad cohesion region are as follows:

• Chairman of the Regional Council
• Committee of the Regional Council
• Bureau of the Regional Council,

The Regional Council Committee (hereafter Committee)

Regional Council Committee is appointed on the basis of the Act. Members of the Committee are elected from among the members of the Karlovarsko and Ústecko regions´ regional authority.

The Committee act and decides of issues connected with ROP realization, namely  approves of:

• the implementation and controlling documents of the Regional Operational programme;
• measures pertaining to publicity and information on the Regional Operational programme;
• the selection of projects for which subsidy or non-refundable financial aid is provided by the Regional Council;
• annual and final report of realization, eventually other reports and documents connected with ROP realization;
• organization structure, number of employees and the Bureau of the Regional Council budget;

The Regional Council Chairman

The chairperson is the Regional Council’s statutory body, representing the Council outside. It is accountable for its activity to the Regional Council’s Committee. It convenes and chairs the Committee’s meetings and proposes Director of the Bureau to the Council.

Bureau of the Regional Council

Pursuant to Section §17 Act No. 138/2006 Coll., the Bureau is the Regional Council’s executive body ensuring all tasks related to the function of ROP Managing Authority, with the exception of matters with which the Committee is entrusted according to the Act. The Bureau also attends to tasks related to expert, organizational and technical securing of the RC´s activity.

The Bureau is headed by the Director who is appointed and recalled by the Committee at its Chairperson’s motion. Once appointed, the Director is employed by the Regional Council and subordinated to its Chairperson.

The Director

• represents toward RC employees a statutory body of the employer
• is fixing RC employees´ salary
• is superordinated to all RC employees and is monitoring their working activity