OECD: København bør have egen minister

ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

"Metropolitan co-ordination will need to be strengthened. Although a large number of decentralised government units can provide a diversity of goods and services and be able to adapt to local circumstances, there are areas where regional co-ordination is called for, for example in transport, land use planning and local economic development. This is particularly the case in Copenhagen, where commuting increasingly takes place across administrative boundaries. Some of the regional co-ordination in Denmark takes place at the national level, for example with regards to land use planning via the Finger Plan. Most of this national co-ordination is sectoral, which leads to a certain lack of policy coherence at the regional level. Cross-sectoral issues are difficult to address, which is sometimes a result of silo thinking within the central government, i.e., a lack of co-ordination between the line ministries. Few co-ordination mechanisms between Copenhagen and the central government exist. The Capital Region has yet to acquire the legitimacy to speak for the whole region. The City of Copenhagen and the city of Frederiksberg, which is embedded within the City of Copenhagen, used to talk separately to the central government, but in the Structural Reform of 2007, they lost their special position as municipalities that were also counties. National policies for the regions, for example the Capital Region, could be better co-ordinated by strengthening the role of the Ministerial Policy Committee for Regional Policy. Co-ordination between the central government and Copenhagen could be increased by a clear national government programme for the capital. Examples worth noting include a ministerial portfolio for the co-ordination of the programme in this metropolitan area, as has recently been introduced for Randstad-Holland in the Netherlands, or Paris in France."

Kilde: OECD TERRITORIAL REVIEWS: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 2009