Region Scania is the

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of Scania County in Sweden. Scania County was formed on January 1, 1999, by the amalgamation of the county councils of

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and Kristianstad County and some of the tasks handled by

Malmö Municipality Malmö Municipality ( sv, Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (''Malmö stad''), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province (''landskap'') of Scania). When ...

. The regional council assembly is the highest political body in the region and its members are elected by the population of Scania County, as opposed to the County Administrative Board (''länsstyrelsen'') which guards the interests of the state in the region under the chairmanship of the county governor. The regional council's main responsibility is for the public healthcare system,

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and development within the region, which includes co-ordination of development of commerce, communication, culture and collaboration with other regions both in and outside of Sweden. By devolution the newly formed regional council assumed some powers from the Scania County Administrative Board, the state authority in Scania County. Before Region Scania was formed in 1999 on a trial basis, the regional development was the responsibility of a Regional Association, comprising the 33 municipalities together with the then current health services principals, namely the Kristianstad and Malmöhus county councils and the Health Services authority in the City of Malmö.Region Sk
Democracy-Increased autonomy
. Official site. Retrieved 24 August 2007. Similar provisions had also been extended to the Västra Götaland Regional Council and the Gotland Council during a trial period.

Regional council

The regional council ( sv, regionfullmäktige, formerly ''landstingsfullmäktige'') meets at Scania Town Hall in

Kristianstad Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish ''Christianstad'') is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has gone from a garrison town to a developed ...

. Elections are held every fourth year in conjunction with the national and municipal elections, on the third Sunday of September. The executive body of the Scania Regional Council is the Regional Executive Committee (''regionstyrelsen''). The current chair of the executive committee is Carl Johan Sonesson of the Moderate Party, who succeeded Henrik Fritzon of the Social Democratic Party following the

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