Implementing provisions on the duties and organization of departments - State Chancellery

1. The State Chancellery (STC) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. Chancellery

1. Secretariat of the Government Council and Cantonal Council,

2. * Information and Communication,

3. Protocol and official events,

4. Official Gazette,

5. * Issuance of identity documents and certifications,

6. * Usher and courier services,

7. * Protection of the coat of arms, flag, and other emblems of the canton;

b. Legal Service

1. Legal advice and representation for the Government Council and Cantonal Council,

2. Compilation of laws and legal drafting,

3. Instruction of complaints,

4. Conducting elections and referendums;

c. State Archive

1. Archiving of documents and archival information and documentation for the Cantonal Council, Government Council, and cantonal administration, as well as (partially) the courts,

2. Collection of sources on the history of the canton and official publications,

3. * Advising municipalities and corporations on records management and taking over deposits from public entities and private individuals,

4. * Maintenance of the coat of arms register;

d.-e. * ...

2. The State Chancellery is assigned

a. * Secretariat of the Cantonal Council

1. * Planning and organization of Cantonal Council meetings, the council management, and in conjunction with the State Chancellery and the departments, coordination of committee meetings,

2. * Minute-taking and secretarial services for the Cantonal Council and council management,

3. * Advice on legal and procedural issues and provision of documentation and information from the state administration for the council presidium, committees, and council members,

4. * Secretariat of the Legal Affairs Committee (LAC), the Committee for Strategic Planning and External Relations (CSPER), and the Editorial Committee;

b. * Financial Control

1. Body responsible for general financial supervision of the Cantonal Council, Government Council, and courts,

2. Auditing and revisions,

3. Participation in supervision and controlling of the management of the Government Council and cantonal administration,

4. Secretariat of the Business and Audit Committee (BAC);

c. * Data Protection Officer.

1. The Department of Finance (FD) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. * Department Secretariat

1. * ...

2. * E-Government,

3. * IKS (Internal Control System) Competence Center;

b. Personnel Office

1. * Personnel Management including: Personnel Administration and Recruitment, Personnel Law, Personnel Information, Personnel Development, Apprenticeships, Personal Insurance, Occupational Pension Schemes,

2. * Administrative Organization with: Leadership Structure and Tools, Organizational Development;

c. Financial Administration

1. * Finance and Accounting (including Financial Planning),

1a. * ...

2. * Payroll Accounting,

3. * Fiscal Equalization,

4. * State Liability, Responsibility, Property and Liability Insurance,

5. * ...

6. * Procurement of Office Supplies,

7. * Management of the Swisslos Fund,

8. * General Administrative Fees, Salt Monopoly,

9. * Tax Collection as well as Collection in Criminal Matters and Victim Assistance Cases,

10. * Postal Services,

11. * Banks, Banking Services;

d. * Tax Administration

1. * Taxes,

2. * Non-agricultural Property Assessment,

3. * ...

e. * ...

2. Assigned to the Department of Finance are

a. * IT Service Centre Obwalden - Nidwalden (ILZ)

1. * IT Services,

2. * Telecommunications Services;

b. Laboratory of the Original Cantons;

c. * Cantonal Hospital;

d. * Obwaldner Cantonal Bank.

1. The Security and Social Department (SSD) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. Department Secretariat;

b. * Office of Justice

1. Constitutional Law,

2. * People's Rights including: Initiative and Referendum (conducted by the State Chancellery), Election and Voting Rights (conducted by the State Chancellery),

3. * ...

4. Expropriation Law,

5. * Data Protection Law (excluding the Data Protection Officer),

6. Court Organization including: Civil, Criminal, and Administrative Procedures (excluding Court Administration),

7. * Notarial Law and Legal Profession Law,

8. * Criminal Legislation and Pardons,

9. Citizenship Law,

10. * Supervision of municipalities, corporations, partial communities, and alpine corporations, land corporations (excluding technical supervision) and water supply corporations (excluding technical supervision), excluding hydraulic corporations,

11. * Civil Law including: civil status relations (civil registry, name changes), mediation (subject to supervision by the Higher Court),

12. Resident Registration,

13. * Debt Collection and Bankruptcy (subject to supervision by the Higher Court),

14. Public Auction,

15. * Secretariat of the Tax Appeal Commission (subject to supervision by the Higher Court),

16. * Victim Assistance (compensation and satisfaction);

c. * Cantonal Police

1. * Cantonal Police including: Criminal as well as Traffic and Security Police, Trade, Acquisition, Possession, and Handling of Weapons, Ammunition, Pyrotechnics, and Explosives,

2. * Military and Civil Protection including: Coordination of Partner Organizations in Civil Protection, Military Administration (including District Command and Military Service Replacement), Civil Protection, Fire Department, Fire Police (measures in case of increased fire risk), Fire Brigade Fund,

3. * Enforcement of Penalties and Measures, Probation Services, Prison Administration;

d.-e. * ...

e1. * Health Office

1. Organization of Public Health,

2. Health Promotion and Prevention,

3. Disease Control,

4. Ensuring Outpatient and Inpatient Care including Outpatient Emergency Services (coordination and supervision),

5. Supervision of Nursing and Elderly Homes, Nursing Services and Home Care Organizations,

6. Coordinated Medical Services,

7. Health Professions and Institutions,

8. Patient Rights and Obligations,

9. Pharmaceuticals, Narcotics (including Veterinary Medicines),

10. Health and Accident Insurance (excluding Premium Reductions in Health Insurance),

11. Pregnancy Counseling,

12. Food and Consumable Items, insofar as these tasks are not assigned to the Laboratory of the Original Cantons,

13. * Animal Welfare, Animal Disease Control, Veterinary Medicines, Slaughter, Meat Hygiene, Dog Keeping and Veterinary Professions, insofar as these tasks are not assigned to the Laboratory of the Original Cantons,

14. * School Health Services;

f. Social Office

1. * Social Assistance including: Coordination of Private and Public Social Activities, Supervision of Public Social Assistance, Contributions from the Alcohol Tithe,

2. * Counseling for the Elderly, Disabled, and Mentally Ill,

3. Children's and Youth Homes (Home Agreement), Facilities for the Disabled, Foster Child Supervision,

4. * Adoption,

5. * Child and Adult Protection including: Welfare Accommodation, International Child Abduction,

6. Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees,

7. * ...

8. * Specialist Unit for Social Issues including: Family Promotion, Child and Youth Promotion, Health Promotion, Integration, Addiction Counseling, Youth and Family Counseling, Marriage and Life Counseling, Victim Assistance (Advice Center);

g. * Public Prosecutor's Office (subject to supervision by the Higher Court)

1. Criminal Prosecution,

2. * Domestic Violence.

2. The Security and Social Department is assigned

a. * ...

b. * Cantonal Management Staff;

c. * Traffic Safety Center Obwalden/Nidwalden (VSZ)

1. Admission of Persons and Vehicles to Road Traffic and Shipping,

2. Collection of Vehicle and Shipping Taxes,

3. * Administrative Measures in Road Traffic.

1. The Department of Economic Affairs (VD) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. Department Secretariat

1. * External Relations: Conference of Cantonal Governments (KdK), Central Switzerland Government Conference (ZRK), Europe,

2. * Coordination Office for Economic Affairs,

3.-4. * ...

5. * Social Insurances of the Compensation Fund (AHV, IV, EO, including supplementary benefits and the Family Compensation Fund as well as ULV), Premium Reduction in Health Insurance,

6. * ...

b. Office of Economic Affairs

1. * Economic Promotion: New Regional Policy and Guarantee Cooperative for SMEs,

2. * Internal Market and WTO (World Trade Agreements GATT/GATS/TRIPS), Procurement Regulations,

3. Tourism,

4. Housing and Home Ownership Promotion,

5. * ...

6. Statistics,

7. * Commercial Register,

7a. * Supervision of Foundations,

8. * Acquisition of Property by Persons Abroad,

9. * Land Registry,

9a. * Land Registry Rectification,

9b. * Official Surveying,

10. * Geoinformation including GIS Coordination and Management of the ÖREB Cadastre,

11. * ...

12. * National Economic Supply,

13. * Register Harmonization (excluding Supervision of the Resident Controls);

c. Office for Labor

1. Labor Law, Labor Market,

2. Employment Services, Unemployment Insurance, Civil Service Deployments,

3. * Residence and Settlement of Foreign Persons (including Identification Documents and Coercive Measures in Immigration Law),

4. Transnational Marriage and Partnership Mediation,

5. * Market and Traveling Trades,

6. * Hospitality Industry, Trade with Alcoholic Beverages, Campsites, Mountain Guides and Offering Other Risk Activities,

7. * Labor Inspectorate, Homework, Protection from Passive Smoking,

8. * Preventive Fire Protection (excluding Measures in Cases of Increased Fire Hazard),

9. Sunday Rest, Store Opening Hours,

10. Weights and Measures,

11. Price Control,

12. * Consumer Credit,

13. * Gambling and Lottery Matters,

14. * Grants from the Swisslos Fund (Development Aid and Humanitarian Aid Abroad);

d. Office for Agriculture and Environment

1. * Agricultural Law,

2. * Agricultural Advice,

3. * Structural Improvements,

4. * ...

4a. * Promotion of Slaughter Livestock Sales and Animal Breeding,

5. Land Law and Leasehold Law,

6. * Direct Payments,

7. * Environmental Protection including: Air Quality Control, Noise Control, Hazard Prevention, Non-Ionizing Radiation, Coordination of ABC Protection, Waste Management, Hazardous Waste, Contaminated Sites, Soil Protection, Water-Polluting Liquids, Soil Protection, Environmentally Hazardous Substances, Organisms,

7a. * Water Protection,

7b. * Heat Utilization from Water and Soil,

8. Fisheries,

9. * ...

10. * Valuation of Agricultural Properties.

2. Assigned to the Department of Economic Affairs

a. * Compensation Fund (including Execution of Premium Reduction in Health Insurance);

b. * ...

1. The Department of Education and Culture (DEC) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. Department Secretariat

1. * Higher education institutions, universities,

2. Educational grants (scholarships and loans),

3. Ecclesiastical matters;

b. * Office for Primary and Secondary Schools

1. * Municipal schools, special schools,

2. * School supervision, quality management,

3. Teaching materials, teacher training,

4. Private schools and private tuition (supervision),

5. * School psychological services, psychomotor therapy centers, speech therapy services, special education early intervention,

6. * Special education measures,

7. Teacher counseling,

8. * Cantonal school, secondary schools,

9. * ...

c. * Office for Vocational Education and Training

1. Apprenticeship supervision,

1a. * Bridging courses,

2. * Vocational basic education, vocational maturity,

2a. * Higher vocational education (supervision),

3. Career-oriented and general further education,

3a. * Qualification procedures,

3b. * Education of education providers,

4. Vocational and further education counseling;

d. * Office for Culture and Sports

1. Cultural promotion, cultural preservation, monument conservation, archaeology, cultural property protection,

2. Cantonal library,

3. * ...

4. Youth and sports, school sports, club sports,

5. * ...

e. * ...

1. The Department of Construction and Spatial Development (BRD) is assigned the following areas of responsibility

a. * Department Secretariat

b. * Civil Engineering Office

1.-3a. * ...

4. Mining Rights,

5. * Cantonal Roads and Cantonal Cycle Paths,

5a. * National Roads,

6. * Road Contributions (from Mineral Oil and Traffic Taxes),

7. * ...

c. * Office for Forest and Landscape

1. * Forest,

2.-6. * ...

7. * Nature and Landscape Protection,

8. * Wildlife and Hunting,

9. * Natural Hazards,

10. * Water Construction, Maintenance of Water Bodies, Utilization of Water Bodies and Material Extraction, as well as Use of Water for Drinking and Utility Purposes,

11.-17. * ...

d. * Office for Spatial Development and Energy

1. Construction and Planning Law (including Approval of Construction and Development Regulations),

2. Master Planning, Land Use, Neighborhood, and Special Planning,

3. * Overall Transportation Planning,

4. * Traffic Planning in the Scope of Footpaths and Hiking Trails as well as Cantonal Cycle Paths,

4a. * Public Transport,

5. * Transport Facilities (Cable Cars and Ski Lifts), Pipelines, Aviation,

6. * Telecommunications Facilities,

7. * Energy and Climate (including Utilization of Hydropower);

e. * Building Office

1. Construction Coordination,

2. Building Management,

3. Building Projects.

2. Assigned to the Department of Construction and Spatial Development is

a. Obwalden Electricity Works.

1. The structure of the departments up to the level of the office is uniformly defined in organizational charts, which are published in the official state directory.

1. The Implementing Provisions on the Tasks and Structure of the Departments dated 15 September 1998 are repealed.

1. These implementing provisions shall enter into force on July 1, 2002.