Sau eventual şi "exercise their powers", dar depinde de cât de elevat este stilul documentului; cred că "at which they operate" ar fi o reformulare mai concisă. Nu prea merge "jurisdiction" pentru că nu vorbim despre judecători. Cât despre "teritorial", sunt de părere că ai putea folosi şi "administrative" în contextul de faţă (presupun că e vorba de nivelele naţionale, judeţene şi aşa mai departe).

"Lord Falconer of Thoroton: My Lords, that is a wide-ranging question. The important point is that people who join the Civil Service should realise that their commitment is to the public service generally rather than to one particular department. **That is something that we seek to emphasise both in the competency framework within which civil servants operate** and in the training that they receive subsequently--the training being not departmental but frequently cross-departmental."
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200001/ldhansrd/v...

"Accountability, where it exists, can often refer to levels of government different to the **territorial level at which the partnership operates**, e.g. regional agencies (like RDA boards) appointed by and accountable to central government departments rather than regional citizens (Wilson, 2003)."
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/documents/sewp153.pdf

"Comprehensive and up-to-date statistics about regions and subregional areas are increasingly in demand. In response to this, we have produced the Region in Figures series to complement Regional Trends. The set of nine publications presents a wide range of subregional data at lower **administrative levels** for each Government Office Region in England and is as valuable as the information in Regional Trends for regional decision making."
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/Regio...

"Administrative obligations, on the other hand, had been found to have varying degrees of efficiency, depending on the **administrative level** at which they were implemented. **Länder administrations** could not be forced to comply with legislation intended to improve the efficiency of the **national administration**."
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/67516d9d1861c813c1...

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Apropo, deşi primul link citat menţionează "competency", acolo are sensul de "aptitudini" şi nu îl propun pentru "competenţelor" din propoziţia ta (apare din pură coincidenţă). Am inclus asta pentru că ilustrează folosirea lui "operate" cu "civil servants".

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Am aruncat o privire la ordonanţa respectivă despre salariile funcţionarilor şi se pare că depind de unităţile administrativ-teritoriale (judeţ, municipiu, oraş, comună) şi nu de ariile geografice (de ex. Olt, Timiş etc.) în care funcţionarii publici îşi desfăşoară activitatea. A se vedea, de exemplu, Anexa IV unde avem "municipii, oraşe, comune".
http://www.sedlex.ro/legislatie/oug_82_2004.htm