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The State Chancellery is a central public administration institution directly subordinated to the Prime Minister.
The State Chancellery is headed by its director, who is a top-rank official appointed and dismissed by a Cabinet’s order according to a recommendation of the Prime Minister. The Director of the State Chancellery may have deputies. The Director and other civil servants of the State Chancellery are appointed in compliance with the State Civil Service Law.
The State Chancellery comprises Prime Minister’s Office, departments, divisions and individual units set up by the Director of the State Chancellery. The State Chancellery ensures and controls compliance of policy documents and draft legal acts of the Cabinet with the effective requirements; develops and implements policy action plans in various areas and presents opinions on policy documents and legal acts, as well as technically arranges activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Subordinate institution of the State Chancellery is the Latvian School of Public Administration (since 1 January 2003).
The State Chancellery has the following functions: to provide preparation and process of Cabinet sittings, ensures preparation of Cabinet’s documentation according to the procedure set forth in the relevant laws and regulations; to perform management of Cabinet’s documentation; to participate in the policy planning processes pursuant to the Cabinet’s guidelines and tasks assigned by the Cabinet; to coordinate planning and implementation of the national policy; in cooperation with ministries to present proposals on priorities for national development; to ensure elaboration of the development policy of public administration (incl. the state civil service) and coordinate and supervise its implementation; when assigned by the Prime Minister, to coordinate and to control enforcement of the decisions adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers and the Prime Minister; to inform the public about work and activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.
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