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ЕВРОПСКА УПРАВНО-ПРОЦЕСНА ПРАВИЛА И ОПШТИ УПРАВНИ ПОСТУПАК РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ
European Rules of Administrative Process and General Administrative Procedure of The Republic of Serbia

Author(s): Dejan Vučetić
Subject(s): Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Нишу
Keywords: Right to good administration; Administrative procedure; Principles of European administrative procedural law

Summary/Abstract: This paper show why the standardization of administrative procedure is important for the state legal system that, in the last two decades, the administrative procedure codes were adopted in almost all of the European states. Afterwards author analyzed main driving forces for development of administrative procedural law at the level of the European Union and the Council of Europe. The most important legal sources of European administrative procedural law (basic standards, principles, recommendations and guidelines in this area) are concisely presented but it is clearly indicated that there are certain ambiguities, that these sources don’t apply equally to all institutions of the Union, and that they still don’t make finished, complete and forever given system that can be automatically transferred to jurisprudence of the member states and candidate countries. Moreover, often administrative process laws of the member states contain rules that are not existing in this kind of regulation at European Union level and that is why the process of adopting the first European Union general law on administrative procedure was initiated, which would further improve the standards of European administrative process in general. When it comes to the general administrative procedure of the Republic of Serbia it has been shown that in spite of the strategic orientation towards the reform of the Law on Administrative Procedure expressed in numerous strategies, our executive authorities in this area have not yet moved beyond the development of the third version of the Draft Law on General administrative Procedure which was afterward adopted by the Government as the Bill. In his final remarks the author concludes stating that the largest number of European standards of administrative process are included in the final version of the Draft, but without eliminating the shortcomings of the existing Law, and without normative adjusting to the circumstances in which the Serbian administration operates, and with unnecessary abandonment of some solutions that have proved to be right in the decades-long practice of administrative authorities.

  • Issue Year: LIII/2014
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 175-186
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian