public affairs

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please help to translate correctly ‘manage a substantial share of public affairs’

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http://www.un.org/ga/habitat/statements/docs/coe.html
Отсюда?
It also means that the local authorities are seen in a democratic society as democratically constituted bodies enjoying and exercising wide ranging responsibilities and able to regulate and manage a substantial share of public affairs under their own responsibility and, which is of the utmost importance, doing so in the interest of the local population
имхо:
заниматься решением значительной части вопросов государственного управления, входящих в их компетенцию