the political level at the county regional level is with some exceptions responsible mainly for healthcare about of their budgets planning of transportation infrastructure public transport culture and may engage in other areas such as tourism and culture the government is currently investigating a major regional reform that will reduce the number of counties from the present to regions in essence this initiative formalises and expands upon a past decades trend to reinforce the role of regions notably by transferring more decisionmaking power to them from the centre especially in regional development issues