Mr Adam Banaszak speaking on behalf the EA group at the 5th Subsidiarity conference in Bilbao recalled the importance of bringing decisions at the level closest to the citizens and thanked the Hungarian presidency for giving much attention to the prerogatives of local and regional governments. "It was a pleasure for me to present the CoR opinion on health at the Public Health working party in the Council and I hope, he said, that the commitment of the presidency will help promote a greater level of participation and dialogue between LRAs and national governments over EU legislation. Mrs Saima Kalev, member of the Congress of local and regional authorities in the Council of Europe highlighted that local and regional authorities are responsible for the implementation of legislation in several matters and said that member states should adapt their legislative and administrative framework to allow for systematic institutional cooperation with subnational governments.