Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Law - Public Law /
Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, course: EU-Project "Support to the
implementation of the law on general principles of organisation of local
self-government in the Russian Federation", language: English, abstract:
The German system of local government is composed of several territorial
public corporations. Basis of local government is the right to communal
self-government, which is entrenched in the Constitution of the
Federation (Bund) in Article 28 (2) 1 GG, as well as in the
constitutions of the federal states (Länder), e.g. in Article 11 of the
Constitution of Bavaria . Organisation and structure of the basic level
of local government is regulated by the federal states in Municipal
Regulations (Gemeindeordnungen) with the exclusion of the three pure
city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. No single Code of communal
law exists in the federal states, but a variety of laws covers the
different levels of local government. Besides the already mentioned
Municipal Regulations, there are District Regulations
(Landkreisordnung), depending on the size of the States also on a higher
tier Regional Regulations (Bezirksordnung); in addition laws about local
elections on the different levels (Kommunalwahlgesetz) and the different
forms of inter-corporation co-operation (Gesetz über die kommunale
Gemeinschaftsarbeit, Zweckvebandsgesetz, Gemeindekassenverordnung (e.g.
in Lower Saxony), Gesetz über die kommunale Zusammenarbeit and
Verwaltungsgemeinschaftsordnung, Kommunalabgabengesetz (e.g. in
Bavaria).
