Encyklopedia Administracji Publicznej MW Pivot Skin

OFFICE – a team of persons and material means intended for exercising public authority, within the scope defined by law. O. is associated with a → public administration body and provides substantive and specialist support as well as an auxiliary apparatus so that the body can perform its tasks in a proper manner. It is also a separate part of public administration, having its own name and its own management, which has the ability to issue business orders. O. are present at the central level, providing facilities for state authorities: the Chancellery of the Sejm, the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, ministries, etc. Another group are the o. that support specialised central government administration bodies subordinated to the President of the Council of Ministers, ministers or the Council of Ministers, i.e. heads of the services, inspections, guards, committees, directorates, agencies, offices, etc. They are supported by the offices in performing their tasks: e.g., the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspectorate, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, Police Headquarters, Central Office of Measures, Office of Technical Inspection, Civil Aviation Authority. They have their local representatives and bodies. In part, they also form a joint administration at the level of the voivodship and county. At the voivodship level, o. support the bodies of both the government – voivode (voivodship office), and local government – the voivodship board with the marshal at the head and the sejmik (the marshal’s office). At the local level, they provide service to the municipal bodies – the village mayors and municipality councils (municipal office), in cities – mayors and presidents of the cities and city councils (city office) or municipality’s auxiliary units (district office), and counties – county boards with the starost as the head and county councils (starost office) [ A. Jarosz ].

Literature: M. Czyżak, Podstawy organizacji i funkcjonowania administracji publicznej, Warszawa 2016 ■ E. Ochendowski, Prawo administracyjne. Część ogólna, Toruń 2009 ■ J. Zimmermann, Prawo administracyjne, Warszawa 2016.