HARGHITA COUNTY COUNCIL

Harghita County Council is the local public administration of Harghita county with one President - elected directly by the citizens for a mandate of 4 years - and 30 County Councillors, including the two Vice-Presidents of the county council. In brief the following activities and responsibilities belong to the action sphere of the county council and of its subordinated institutions: • Responsibilities related to the county level infrastructure and public acquisitions, preservation of cultural patrimony and historical monuments, assistance and urbanism and construction certification; • Investments and economic development, international, EU funded and structural projects’ management; • Development and implementation of county level programmes on several fields of interest: culture, youth, religion, schools, civil society, social assistance, health, agriculture, rural development, tourism, renewable energy, mountain rescue and mountain area development, library, arts and registry; • County level events organization and protocol, relation with mass-media, human resources, international relations and coordination of the local public authorities of the county.