The Contestability of Resolutions of an Inter-Municipal Association Meeting

The objective of local government administration, and therefore the objective of each local government unit is to perform public tasks of local importance, the implementation of which is each time connected with meeting the current, continuous needs of local communities. Most of the tasks connected with satisfying public needs are to be performed by the commune as the basic local government unit. The legislator expressed it in the content of Art. 6 of the Act of 8 March 1990 on Local Government, stating that the scope of a municipality’s activity includes all public matters of local importance, not reserved by the Acts for the benefit of other entities, additionally, unless the Acts provide otherwise, it is up to the municipality to resolve these matters. As a rule, the tasks are performed by the municipality’s own “means and forces”. However, the legislator has provided for the possibility of cooperation and collaboration between the municipalities, which is facilitated by the establishment of inter-municipal associations, as stipulated in Art. 64 of the Act on Local Government. A form of externalisation of the activity of an inter-municipal association is the adoption of resolutions by the assembly of an inter-municipal association. The study also analyzes the modes of appealing against the association’s assembly’s resolutions.