Municipalities and county councils in Sweden may form local federations () and transfer to such federations the management of local government concerns. When a local federation attends to a matter for which provisions exist in a special enactment, the provisions of that enactment concerning municipalities or county councils shall apply to the local federation. A local federation shall have as a decision-making body a federation assembly or a federation directorate. Members and alternates of the decision-making assembly are elected, as indicated in the federation statutes, by the assemblies of the federation members. See also County councils of Sweden Municipalities of Sweden Mancomunidad, a similar construction in Spain Joint powers authority, a similar construction in the United States, especially California References Local government in Sweden Forms of local government