Romanian Federation of Local Authorities

RFLA is an apolitical, non governmental, with no lucrative purpose, Romanian legal entity of private right, constituted within the purpose of a unique representation of the associative structures in their relations with the Parliament, Government, other public authorities as well and in the relations with international institutions and bodies.

The mission of the Romanian Federation of Local Authorities is to become the unified voice of Local Governments from Romania in representing their interests in front of the Central Government and Parliament.

RFLA will have two main roles:

1.       to represent the interests of local authorities in the context of national and political system. This represents a responsibility that will influence the whole system of public administration and that is very important for each member.

2.       to provide services and professional assistance to local authorities, including the member associations. The services will have in view to improve the professional relations and to accelerate the exchange information between local authorities. RFLA, as a result of its central position, represents the ideal vehicle for dissemination of information and of the most important practices and experiences used for promotion of the methods and the processes available for RFLA

The objectives of RFLA are:

§          an efficient and active participation to the modernization and decentralization process of the Romanian public administration;

§          the improvement of the legislative framework according to the European Chart of local autonomy and other international norms that regard the interests of local, county (regional) communities;

§          a consolidation of the partnership with the central public administration ;

§          a unitary representation of the local collectivities common interests in their relations with the central public administration, non governmental organizations and third parties, in country and abroad;

§          to harmonize the interests of the component associations for an equilibrated social economic development of local communities;

§          to promote collaboration and mutual support at the level of local communities in the economic, financial, social, cultural and institutional field;

§          to create and maintain an integrated information system as well as specialized bodies capable to analyze and offer solutions to solve the problems that the local collectivities are facing;

§          to participate together with other civil society structures to the accomplishment of common goals, specific for local communities;

§          the cooperation, respecting the law provisions, with the local public administration structures from other states.