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| | GOTLAND, CONSTITUTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Gotland, at the regional and local level, is at once a county, a municipality, and a regional self-governing body. |
 | | According to the law, the municipalities are responsible for education, childcare, care of the elderly, planning and building matters, environmental health, sanitation and waste management, water and sewerage services, emergency and rescue services, and library services. |
 | | It was against this background that a state commission of inquiry presented a proposal in 1995 to the effect that responsibility for regional development should be transferred from the state-controlled county administrative boards to the county councils, the directly elected bodies in the regions. |
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