The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

** Presidents of the Regional Government of Príncipe

The Regional Government ( Giunta Regionale ) is presided by the President of the Region ( Presidente della Regione ), who is elected for a five-year term and is composed by the President and the Ministers, who are currently 14, including a Vice President ( Vice Presidente ).

The Eagle of Saladin in the coat of arms of Kurdistan Regional Government

Iraqi Kurdistan has to date achieved the largest degree of self-determination through the formation of the Kurdistan Regional Government, an entity recognised by the Iraqi Federal Constitution.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan which currently holds the Iraqi presidency and the Kurdistan Democratic Party which governs the Kurdistan Regional Government both explicitly commit themselves to the development of Kurdish self-determination, but opinions vary as to the question of self-determination sought within the current borders and countries.

* November 19 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.

The President of the Region, colloquially nicknamed Governor or even Doge in remembrance of Venice's glorious tradition, is also the head of the Regional Government.

The Politics of Campania, takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.

Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government.

Effect is given to this strategy through a series of layers of control including the Local Government Amendment ( Auckland ) Act, the Regional Policy Statement and then via District Plans.

In September 2004, the Government named 22 Regional Chiefs, reporting directly to the President, to implement its decentralization plans.

The regions were used by central government for various statistical purposes, and Government Offices and assorted other institutions including Regional Development Agencies.

Following the abolition of the South West Regional Assembly and Government Office, some local government co-ordination across the region is now undertaken by South West Councils.

* Benadir Regional Administration-Transitional Federal Government of Somalia

* Gladstone Regional Council, Queensland Local Government Area

The politics of Liguria takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.

Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government.

The Regional Government is presided by the Governor, who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers, who are currently 11, including a Vice President.

In 2006, the president of KRG Kurdistan Regional Government Massoud Barzani said: “ It is not a crime to have relations with Israel.

The California Department of Developmental Services operates the North Los Angeles County Regional Center on Sherman Way west of Sepulveda Boulevard in which it serves the large fast-growing population of developmentally disabled people in the San Fernando Valley being helped by the Government of California to house the developmentally disabled people in the area and help them meet special needs of normal life with special benefits.

In 1982, the NSW Government took over direct control of the park which was then called Lane Cove Regional Park.

Several years ago, the president of the Regional Council, Jean-Yves Le Drian wanted the number to be 20, 000 by 2010, though this has not been accomplished.

Regional political integration has not proven attractive to Costa Rica.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

As a result, as of 2002 Ethiopia has a total ( Federal and Regional ) 33, 297 km of roads, both paved and gravel.

During a trial period the County Council provisions for Gotland has been evolved to provisions for a Regional Council, meaning that it has assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board.

ICSU has three Regional Offices-Africa, Asia and the Pacific as well as Latin America and the Caribbean.

The IAEA has two " Regional Safeguards Offices " which are located in Toronto, Canada, and in Tokyo, Japan.

Nepal has played an active role in the formation of the economic development-oriented South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and is the site of its secretariat.

Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by a focus on Africa as a Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence ; Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of disputes ; nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs of other nations ; and regional economic cooperation and development.

Paris has one major hospital split on two campuses: Paris Regional Medical Center South ( formerly St. Joseph's Hospital ) and Paris Regional Medical Center North ( formerly McCuistion Regional Medical Center ).

The unicameral Regional Council has 45 seats.

The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca ( CRIC ) issued a statement concerning the release of two hostages taken by FARC in 2011: " Compared to past statements made by the national government, it is important to reiterate that the presence of armed groups in our territories is a fact that has been imposed by force of arms, against which our communities and their leaders have remained in peaceful resistance.

St. Kitts and Nevis has enjoyed a long history of free and fair elections, although the outcome of elections in 1993 was strongly protested by the opposition and the Regional Security System ( RSS ) was briefly deployed to restore order.

In 2007, the US Navy renovated and restored to full use the only ramp at the coast guard base in São Tomé, which had been out of service. São Tomé and Príncipe has the Automatic Identification System ( AIS ) receivers and in January 2008 became the first African country to have Regional Maritime Awareness Capability ( RMAC ) installed and integrated into

Likewise, the concept of tradition has been used to defend the preservation and reintroduction of minority languages such as Cornish under the auspices of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Greater Victoria also has an expanding system designed to facilitate bicycles and electrically assisted bicycles via bike lanes on many main roads as well as the Galloping Goose Regional Trail and Lochside Regional Trail.

A Regional Organizing Committee has recently been formed for the German speaking countries of Europe.

The Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Santa Clara Valley Water District have engaged in a major outreach effort that has received extensive press and community response.