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The Decentralized Administration of Attica () is one of the seven decentralized administrations of
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, solely consisting of the
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of
Attica Attica (, ''Attikḗ'' (Ancient Greek) or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital city, capital of Greece and the core cit ...
. Its seat is
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.


Formation and tasks

Decentralized Administrations were created in January 2011 as part of a far-reaching reform of the country's administrative structure, the
Kallikratis reform The Kallikratis Programme () is the common name of Greek law 3852/2010 of 2010, a major administrative reform in Greece. It brought about the second major reform of the country's administrative divisions following the 1997 Kapodistrias reform. ...
(Law 3852/2010). They enjoy both administrative and financial autonomy and exercise devolved state powers in
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, environmental and
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. Beyond that, they are tasked with supervising the first and second-level
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bodies: the
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and
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, in this case the 66 municipalities of Attica and the region itself.


Characteristics

Covering an area of , ''Attica'' is by far the smallest, but with an overall population of also by far the most populated of the seven decentralized administrations. In the European NUTS nomenclature, Attica forms the first level NUTS region EL3 ( Attiki).


General Secretary

The Decentralized Administration is led by a Secretary-General () who is appointed or dismissed by a Cabinet decision upon request of the Greek Minister of Interior, and is therefore considered the senior representative of the national government in the regions. In January 2014, Manolis Angelakas ( Nea Dimokratia), who previously had been responsible for Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, was appointed Secretary-General. Following the electoral victory of
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in January 2015, the new Minister for the Interior, Nikos Voutsis, declared that the decentralized administrations would be abolished, and their powers transferred to the regions. Until this reform is formalized, and as the Secretaries-General appointed by the previous administration resigned on 2 February, the decentralized administrations are run by their senior civil servants as Acting Secretaries-General.


List of secretaries-general

* Ilias Liakopoulos (
PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was Two-party system, one of the two major ...
), January 2011 – August 2012 * ( Nea Dimokratia), August 2012 – January 2014 * (Nea Dimokratia), January 2014 – February 2015


References


Literature

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External links

* {{Decentralized Administrations of Greece 2011 establishments in Greece Attica
Attica Attica (, ''Attikḗ'' (Ancient Greek) or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital city, capital of Greece and the core cit ...