Territorial Administrative Reform – Source For Local Development. Study Case: Bihor County

Romania's territorial and administrative reform, begun in the period of pre-accession to the UE, seems to be actually stuck in technical and political details, and personal vanity as well. We claim the necessity of realizing it urgently and not just due to the European directives for implementation to the Nuts 2 system of management for development projects with European funding, but also for a more efficient implementation of the national strategies. We notice that the actual scenarios varies but as the number of macroregions - from 8 to 12, or even more – but also as structure. We consider the reform must be realised of "bottom to up" starting from the level of villages to constitute the macroregions and not the opposite direction. Thus, even for a limited period of time, there would not be two or more territorial - administrative units with similar executive attributions and so two categories of public expenditure for wages paid for the same responsibilities. Contrary, in the analysis conducted on the situation of Bihor County, analyzing only the administrative expenditure - wages - reported to those that could be after the implementation of the proposed measures, in the condition of respecting the actual legislation - the wages increase realized proportionally with the population of the administrated area - would lead to extremely important savings. The new budget for wages would represent only 2,43% of the actual wages.