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SELF-GOVERNMENTAL SEJMIK – a joint representation of all municipalities from the area of a particular voivodship, functioning in Poland in years 1990–1998, established within the scope of the first local-government reform in 1990. The creation of the sejmik was a result of the assumed vision of a single-level local government in a form of municipalities. In the opinion of the authors of the reform, it was necessary to create at the voivodship level a representation of municipalities to be a platform for contacts with government administration and agreements between municipalities in case of conflicts of interests. The delegates to the sejmiks were selected by the municipalities’ councils among councillors – their number depended on the number of municipality’s denizens. Sejmiks were meeting in sessions. The bodies of the sejmiks, according to the act, included the presidium (consisting of the chairman, two deputies and six members, who implemented part of its tasks between sessions) and the board of appeals acting on behalf of the sejmik and adjudicating in a three-person team on appeals against the individual administrative decisions made by the village mayor or a town mayor in the scope of the municipality’s own tasks. The number of members of the board was decided by the sejmik. The rules and mode of action of the sejmik and its bodies were set in the statute enacted by the sejmik. One can find in the literature an opinion that classifies the self-governmental sejmik as one of the institutionalized forms of governmental cooperation. From the beginning of its functioning, sejmiks were understood by the authors of the local government reform as a temporary solution which was supposed to disappear once the next levels of local government were created, which in fact happened in 1999 [ M. Jęczarek ].

Literature: M. Adamowicz i in., Współpraca administracji rządowej z administracją samorządową na przykładzie funkcjonowania Komisji Wspólnej Rządu i Samorządu Terytorialnego [Cooperation between government administration and local government administration on the example of the functioning of the Joint Commission of Government and Local Government], [in:] Współdziałanie administracji rządowej z administracją samorządową [Cooperation between government administration and local government administration], ed. M. Stec, Warszawa 2009 ■ J. Bartkowski, E. Nalewajko, B. Ostermann, I, Słodkowska, Droga do samorządności terytorialnej: Polska 1989–1990 [The road to local government: Poland 1989-1990], Warszawa 2016 ■ J. Regulski, Samorząd III Rzeczypospolitej: koncepcje i realizacje [Local government of the Third Republic of Poland: concepts and implementation], Warszawa 2000.