A three-tier territorial system, where municipalities and counties perform the functions of local government, and voivodeships operate at the re-gional level. It should be noted that, unlike other major European coun-tries (Germany, Spain and Italy) regional government in Poland is not based on politically autonomous or federal units, but on administrative government. At the regional level, the
voivodes
are general representatives of the central government, whose competences and powers include, among others, the administrative oversight local authorities and the implementa-tion of tasks relating to general security and order, crisis management, natural disaster prevention etc