Regional prefets define State strategies at the regional level—they submit a strategic proposal document that has been known since 2004 as the Project for State Regional Strategy (Projet d'action strategique de I’Etat en region, PASER). A National PASER Monitoring Committee, co-chaired by the minister responsible for State Reform (the Budget Ministry) and the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Planning, serves as the framework in which the central ministers define State strategy in each region, in collaboration with the regional prefet. Departemental prefets have administrative authority to assess the legal compliance of local authorities in the adoption of spatial plans, among other functions. They are mainly electoral districts for departements, with each having roughly the same size population.