WPT1 D2.2.1 REGIONAL REPORT Tyrol - Austria September 2016 • Manfred Riedl WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria 2 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria Institution Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz 3 6020 Innsbruck Austria t +43 512 508 f +43 512 508 741990 e [email protected] w www.tirol.gv.at/landesstatistik-tiris Authors Riedl Manfred, Dipl.-Ing. Sg. Landesstatistik u. tiris Heiliggeiststraße 7 (Raum 3-026) 6020 Innsbruck Austria t +43 512 508 3650 f +43 512 508 743605 e [email protected] 3 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria 4 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria TABLE OF CONTENTS Index 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 7 Short description of administrative system of your country ................................... 7 Institutional Structures of TA Außerfern (District of Reutte) .................................... 9 2. INTEGRATION IN THE STRATEGIES ....................................................................................... 11 Basic Report on the Strategies .................................................................................... 11 General problems, related to the delivery of SGI ..................................................... 12 Administrative framework, major stakeholders ...................................................... 14 Integration models ....................................................................................................... 15 Need for integration ..................................................................................................... 16 3. CONCLUSIONS, INPUT FOR WPT3 ........................................................................................ 16 Existing Plans, Trends ................................................................................................... 16 Identified gaps ............................................................................................................... 17 4. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 18 5. APPENDICES............................................................................................................................. 18 Figures Figure 1: Administrative system of Austria (Perhelion: Wikimedia Commons, 2011) ............... 8 Figure 2: Cut-out plan of the central municipalities in the Tyrol .......................................... 10 Appendices Report on the Collection of Strategies ........................................................... 18 Report on carrying out the interviews ........................................................... 18 5 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria 6 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria 1. INTRODUCTION Short description of administrative system of your country “The organisational variety of the Austrian administration is derived from two principles: from the constitutional basic principle of the Federation and from the principle of local self-administration of Austrian municipalities These two principles result to an administrative structure consisting of three levels of subdivisions each with corresponding administrative organisations: at central government level the Federal Government at federal level, the federal state administrations of the nine States of Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Vienna and at local self-administration the municipal administrations of 2.100 Austrian municipalities All over Austria there is also a network of 95 administrative districts, which are not independent territorial authorities but are rather organizationally integrated in the federal state administration (as district authorities) or within the greater city. As such, Austria can be said to have a four-tiered administrative structure throughout: Federal Government – Federal States – Districts – Municipalities The Federal Government is the largest administrative organisation in Austria. It is under the leadership of the Federal Ministers, who preside as monocratic organs of a particular department. As a whole, the Federal Ministers make up the Federal Government. The Federal Chancellor is the chairman of the Federal Government and as such, exercises the central function. A Federal Minister’s department consists of a Federal Ministry (also called Central Offices) and the subordinate agencies. In this way, finance offices are subordinate agencies just as police inspectorates or even individual schools are. In the last decades, various legally independent establishments were founded outside of the Federal administration. This occurred through so called “disincorporation”, in which a governmental establishment was converted into a legally independent institution or a company under company law on the basis of a special law. In contrast to the Federal Administration, the administrative apparatus of the nine Federal States are not organised according to the branch system. The State Government as a leadership organ of the state administration basically acts as a committee, although many aspects are still delegated to individual members for decision. There are no separate State Ministers with or without portfolios as administrative assistance, but rather a common State Government Office. Internal affairs of the Office are led by the State Governor as chairman of the State Government (at political level) and the Head of 7 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria the State Government Office (at administrative level). Most of the 95 District Administrations are also part of the State Administration. Outside the 15 larger cities, which act as administrative districts, there are 80 District Authorities established as administrative districts throughout Austria, and which play a leading role especially in national administration. District authorities are led by one of the persons nominated as District Governor by the State Government. Furthermore, State Administrations also have subordinate agencies and numerous disincorporations from State administration have taken place. State hospitals especially have been going through a process of legal independence. About 80 % of all municipalities (2.100) in Austria have less than 3.000 inhabitants. Since the size and capacity of a municipality is not considered in task setting, a distinct structure of cooperation has developed amongst Austria’s municipalities. As such, many municipal associations are founded especially when concerning high investment and employment opportunities, in order to enable more efficient management. The Municipal Offices are under the leadership of the Mayor. An office leader generally referred to as Municipal Secretary or City Office Director takes care of the administrative leadership (Chief Magistrate in cities with their own statute). Many municipal responsibilities fall under the provision of subsistence and concern the creation of educational, social, environmental and cultural infrastructure.” (Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, 2011) Figure 1: Administrative system of Austria (Perhelion: Wikimedia Commons, 2011) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verwaltungsgliederung_%C3%96sterreichs.svg 8 European Regional Development Fund WPT1 Regional report: Tyrol – Austria Institutional Structures of TA Außerfern (District of Reutte) The district of Reutte – in terms of geography also called "Außerfern" - is located in northwest Tyrol and is isolated from the Tyrolean central space by some mountain ranges. The region borders in the east and north to Bavaria (Germany) and in the west to the Bregenzer Wald (Vorarlberg). Populated valleys in this region amount to only 9 % of the total area, whereas forest and alpine areas cover large areas. The district of Reutte is connected with the central area of Tyrol only by a year-round open mountain pass road. Moreover, this transport axis is at times overloaded serving as a transit route for the tourist traffic from and to Germany. In contrast, there are seven roads and two railway connections leading into the Bavarian neighbour regions. Cooperation across national boundaries has always been vital for the Außerfern region. Concerning its topographical outline, the region contains four areas: the Tannheim valley, the market town of Reutte and its surroundings, the Upper Lechtal valley and the Zwischentoren valley. These four regional parts are congruent with the organizational areas of the respective planning associations (PV) and tourism federations (TVB). Appearing in the statistics with its 31,691 inhabitants (as of 2015) and an area of 1,237 km², the Außerfern region is the smallest of the nine districts of Tyrol. The population density adds up to 26 inhabitants per km². The 37 municipalities in total show a very small-scale structure. Even the district capital Reutte has only little more than 6,000 inhabitants; there are 27 small communities with less than 1,000 people, including 16 very small communities having less than 500 inhabitants. Three-quarters of the municipalities had to accept a decline in population in the past decade, whereas a growing population can only be seen throughout the planning association of Reutte and its surroundings