The local decision of the electorate is the best test.

The city also has appointed Commissions to give residents a greater voice in local decisions.

Great emphasis is being placed upon local decision making thereby giving regional management much more direct control and financial responsibility for their business.

Nevertheless, the Compact can hardly be called a local decision.

"Those local decisions can reflect the local community and its needs."

Now I want to re-emphasize that these are local decisions.

Where there are no national guidelines, local decision making takes over.

Instead we have allowed police forces to make a local decision on whether they feel that recording stop and account is necessary.

If subsidiarity is to mean anything at all, such priorities should be for local decision.

The setting of standards in general interest services should also be subject to local decision.