Editing Voivode (section)

=====1973–1990=====
As part of the 1972-1975 administrative reform, the Voivode position was reintroduced according to the law published on 22 November 1973.<ref name="wroclawuniversity">{{cite web|url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19730470276|title=Ustawa z dnia 22 listopada 1973 r. o zmianie ustawy o radach narodowych|publisher=ISAP – Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych|lang=pl|accessdate=2023-04-13}}</ref> receiving powers which were at the hands of the Presidium of the [[National Council (Poland)|Voivodeship National Councils]]. Thus, the model of the collegial structure of administrative bodies was abandoned. Although the presidiums were left in the system of national councils, their role and position was reduced to the internal organ of the council, representing the council outside.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl/Content/79121/PDF/39_Wojtczak-K.pdf|title=Wojewoda w okresie przemian w ustroju politycznym i administracyjnym między II a III Rzeczypospolitą Polską|publisher=University of Wroclaw|accessdate=2023-04-14|author=Krystyna Wojtczak}}</ref> Since the publishing of the law amending the Act on National Councils of 1973, departments and other organizational units previously subordinated directly to the Presidium of National Councils were transformed into a comprehensively recognized office ({{langx|pl|urząd}}) with the help of which the voivode was to perform his tasks as state administration body.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/files/Studia_Lubuskie_prace_Instytutu_Prawa_i_Administracji_Panstwowej_Wyzszej_Szkoly_Zawodowej_w_Sulechowie/Studia_Lubuskie_prace_Instytutu_Prawa_i_Administracji_Panstwowej_Wyzszej_Szkoly_Zawodowej_w_Sulechowie-r2007-t3/Studia_Lubuskie_prace_Instytutu_Prawa_i_Administracji_Panstwowej_Wyzszej_Szkoly_Zawodowej_w_Sulechowie-r2007-t3-s75-102/Studia_Lubuskie_prace_Instytutu_Prawa_i_Administracji_Panstwowej_Wyzszej_Szkoly_Zawodowej_w_Sulechowie-r2007-t3-s75-102.pdf|title=Ustrojowa pozycja urzędu wojewody w Polsce|lang=pl|author=Andrzej Skibiński|publisher=Instytutu Prawa i Administracji PWSZ w Sulechowie|accessdate=2023-04-14}}</ref> The Voivodes were to be appointed by the Prime Minister<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/sites/default/files/students-resources/Prezentacja-Historyczne%20korzenie-Urz%C4%99dy.pptx|title=Urzędy|publisher=University of Wrocław|accessdate=2023-04-13|lang=pl}}</ref> following a consultation with the respective [[National Council (Poland)|Voivodeship National Council]]. Their competencies included<ref>{{cite book|url=|title=Ewolucja pozycji wojewody do 2009 roku|author=Kamil Mroczka|date= 2024 |publisher=Elipsa |isbn=978-83-8017-352-1|location=Warsaw|pages=117–118}}</ref>

* Undertake actions aimed at performing tasks resulting from the social and [[economic development]] plan of the country;
* Develop, on the basis of the guidelines of the [[Council of Ministers (Poland)|Council of Ministers]], draft plans for the [[Economics|socio-economic]] development of the area and draft budgets;
* Responsible for carrying out tasks resulting from these plans;
* Responsible for ensuring the proper use of funds allocated for "socio-economic development of the area and improvement of the living, educational, social and cultural conditions of the inhabitants";
* Coordinate the activities related to local economy of all state and cooperative units and social organizations, issuing recommendations regarding the implementation of tasks resulting from the socio-economic development plan of a given voivodeship;
* Control the performance of tasks specified in the socio-economic plan by state and cooperative units and social organizations;
* Undertake activities in the field of development of socialized and individual agriculture, tasks aimed at protecting the natural environment, ensuring cleanliness and order as well as fire and flood protection;
* Coordinate activities in the field of development of science, higher education and technology;
* Carry out the tasks entrusted by law in the field of state defense;
* Organize social forces and means for the protection of public order and security, supervise and control the activities of the [[Milicja Obywatelska]] and Volunteer Reserve of the Milicja Obywatelska in this regard, and issued orders to these bodies;
* Visit prisons and familiarized themselves with their conditions and made appropriate recommendations or applied to superior units.
*Ensure compliance of the operation of organizational units not subordinated to national councils with the socio-economic plan and the needs of the voivodeship. To support this, the voivode had the right to apply to the heads of these units for punishing, suspending or dismissing an employee who neglects his official duties, shows an inappropriate attitude towards people or violates work discipline. Secondly, the voivode had the right to suspend the head of an organizational unit not subordinated to the national council in "in the event of a gross violation of official duties causing serious social and economic damage".

The Voivode, providing conditions for the Voivodeship National Council to perform its statutory tasks, participated in its sessions and meetings of its presidium, ensured the implementation of the Voivodeship National Council resolutions and decisions of the presidium and submitted reports on their implementation, presented the WRN with draft plans for the social and economic development of the voivodeship and the budget, submitted reports from their implementation and cooperated with the presidium of the Voivodeship National Council in matters related to the implementation of the tasks of the presidium and the preparation of the council session, applied to the presidium to convene a session of the WRN and the subject of its deliberations. In addition, the voivode cooperated with the Voivodeship National Council committees and councillors, assisted them in the implementation of tasks, in maintaining communication with residents and the residents' self-government and in conducting control activities, and presented drafts of major ordinances and decisions to the WRN committees for consultation and informed about the implementation of the committee's conclusions. 

Voivodes were served by voivodeship offices. The voivode could also perform some of his tasks with the help of "united field offices, enterprises, plants and institutions" subordinated to him. The functions and status of the voivode were clarified in January 1978 in the regulation of the [[Council of Ministers (Poland)|Council of Ministers]]. The preamble to this act states, inter alia, that "the voivode, while performing his tasks in the field of managing the national economy in the voivodeship, is guided by the resolutions of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]] as the guiding political force of society in socialist construction. This regulation specified the basic rights and duties of the voivode as the representative of the government, the executive and managing body of the Voivodeship National Council and the local state administration body at the voivodeship level."<ref name="wroclawuniversity" /> An important competence of the voivode in this function was to exercise control over the implementation of voters' postulates and motions. The voivode, on the basis of the guidelines of the council of ministers, also prepared draft plans for the socio-economic development of the voivodeship and draft budgets, implemented the plan and budget adopted by the voivodeship national council and performed other tasks related to the comprehensive development of the voivodeship and meeting the needs of society, focusing on key problems, especially concerning the complex of agriculture and food economy, improving market supply, housing construction and housing management, as well as meeting the communal and living needs of the population.<ref>{{cite book|url=|title=Ewolucja pozycji wojewody do 2009 roku|author=Kamil Mroczka|date= 2024 |publisher=Elipsa |isbn=978-83-8017-352-1|location=Warsaw|pages=120}}</ref>

It was also specified that the voivode performed and organized the performance of tasks in the voivodeship resulting from the provisions of generally applicable law, orders of the Prime Minister and resolutions of the WRN. Voivodes also controlled the performance by units subordinated and not subordinated to national councils of tasks resulting from laws and other acts of law. In this regard, they had the right to take the necessary decisions to ensure their full implementation.<ref>{{cite book|url=|title=Ewolucja pozycji wojewody do 2009 roku|author=Kamil Mroczka|date=2024 |publisher=Elipsa |isbn=978-83-8017-352-1|location=Warsaw|pages=123–124}}</ref>

In 1988 further regulations clarified the voivode's competences and tasks compared to the earlier regulations of 1975 and 1983. As the representative of the central government in the voivodeship, the voivode coordinated the work of all state administration bodies operating in the voivodeship in the field of meeting the needs of the population and socio-economic development of the area; organized control over the performance of state administration tasks in the voivodeship resulting from acts and ordinances, resolutions and orders of the chief state administration bodies; ensured the cooperation of organizational units operating in the voivodeship in the field of maintaining law and order, as well as preventing natural disasters and removing their effects. In addition, he was responsible for the [[ad hoc]] tasks commissioned by the council of ministers, the government presidium, the prime minister and the minister responsible for administration. Such a definition of competences constituted a qualitative change in relation to the amended regulation. Acting as a government representative, the voivode also represented the central authorities at state ceremonies and during official meetings in the voivodeship.<ref>{{cite book|url=|title=Ewolucja pozycji wojewody do 2009 roku|author=Kamil Mroczka|date= 2024 |publisher=Elipsa |isbn=978-83-8017-352-1|location=Warsaw|pages=132}}</ref>