Ordinance on the Government and Administrative Organisation Act of Basel-Landschaft (Government and Administrative Organisation Ordinance of Basel-Landschaft, RVOV BL) - Designation and Areas of Responsibility of the Departments (SID)
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
1. The Departments are formed as follows
a. Building and Environmental Protection Department (BEPD);
b. Education, Culture, and Sports Department (ECSD);
c. Finance and Church Department (FCD);
d. Security Department (SD);
e. Economic Affairs and Health Department (EHD).
2. The Departments are assigned the following areas of responsibility in particular
a. Building and Environmental Protection Department: Construction, spatial planning, public transportation, environmental protection, energy.
b. Education, Culture, and Sports Department: Education, culture, sports, youth and disability services.
c. Finance and Church Department: Finance, personnel, social services, municipalities, churches, information technology.
d. Security Department: Police, civil defense, motor vehicles, law enforcement and execution, migration, naturalization, civil law, debt enforcement and bankruptcy.
e. Economic Affairs and Health Department: Economic development, labor, agriculture, forestry and wildlife, health, geoinformation.
1. Directorates are divided into departments.
2. Departments within a directorate can be assigned to specific divisions. The division heads are also the heads of a department.
1. Directly reporting to the Director are
a. the divisions;
b. the departments that are not assigned to any division.
2. The departments that are assigned to a division report directly to the head of that division.
1. The government council regulates the organization and duties of the departments in service regulations for each directorate.
2. The directorates may additionally regulate the responsibilities of the departments and their divisions in regulations.
1. The State Archive is a department of the State Chancellery. It issues a service regulation for the State Archive, which is to be approved by the Government Council.
1. Other holders of public responsibilities (§ 80 Constitution of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft) are administratively assigned to the department with which they have the closest substantive connection.
2. In cases of doubt, the government council decides on the assignment.
1. The Construction and Environment Protection Directorate is divided into the following sectors and offices
a. * General Secretariat Sector, including the General Secretariat;
b. * Environment and Energy Sector, including the Office for Environmental Protection and Energy;
c. * Civil Engineering Sector, including the Civil Engineering Office;
d. * Real Estate Sector, including the Building Office;
e. * Spatial Planning Sector, including the Office for Spatial Planning;
f. * Building Inspection Sector, including the Building Inspection Office;
g. * Wastewater and Landfills Sector, including the Office for Industrial Enterprises.
h. * ...
i. * ...
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1. The Directorate of Education, Culture, and Sports includes the following departments
a. General Secretariat;
b. * ...
c. Office for Child, Youth, and Disabled Services;
d. Office for Culture;
e. Office for Primary Schools;
f. * Department for Vocational Education, Secondary Schools, and Universities;
g. * ...
h. * ...
i. * ...
j. Sports Office.
1. The Finance and Church Directorate comprises the following departments
a. General Secretariat;
b. Financial Administration;
c. Cantonal Social Office;
d. Personnel Office;
e. * Office for Data and Statistics (AfDS);
f. Tax Administration;
g. * Central Information Technology;
h. * Department of Digital Transformation (DiDiT).
1. The Directorate of Security includes the following departments
a. General Secretariat;
b. Office of Penal Services;
c. Office of Migration, Integration, and Citizenship;
d. Office of Military and Civil Protection;
e. Youth Prosecution Office;
f. Motor Vehicle Control;
g. Basel-Landschaft Police;
h. Legal Service of the Government Council and Cantonal Parliament;
i. Public Prosecutor's Office;
j. Civil Law Administration.
1. The Directorate of Economic Affairs and Health comprises the following offices
a. * General Secretariat (GS);
b. * Economic Promotion Baselland (StaFö Baselland);
c. * Office for Industry, Trade and Labor (KIGA Baselland);
d. * Office for Geoinformation (AGI);
e. * Office for Forests and Wildlife of Both Basel (AfWW Both Basel);
f. * Ebenrain Center for Agriculture, Nature, and Nutrition (Ebenrain);
g. * Office for Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs (ALV);
h. * Office for Health (AfG).