Voivodeship board as an organ of public authority implementing the development policy

The establishment of voivodeship in 1999, as the unit of local government, had a break- through role in the process of decentralization of the state. Voivodeship has gained not only the traditional attributes of the local government, but is clearly evolving in the direction of the institution of the region. This process has intensified because of the accession to the European Union. The voivodeship board has got major importance in this process on the basis of The Act of Regional Development, which ensures the voivodeship board a lot of undertakings in the area of regional development. These undertakings, performed during the reception of EU funds in the years 2007–2013 (2015) and in the years between 2014–2020 have significantly affected the dynamic socio-economic development of local communities, but above all have stimulated the transformation of the self-government of the voivodeship into the European region.