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Централните органи на държавно управление извън системата на изпълнителната власт
Central Public Bodies outside the Executive Power System

Author(s): Konstantin Pehlivanov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: state governance; executive power system; administrative law; regulation
Summary/Abstract: The existence of the central bodies of state governance outside the executive power system, their systematic place in state governance and the clarification of their functions is one of the main challenges for contemporary administrative law theory. The review of the regulation of these bodies shows that the National Assembly tends to take more and more functions from the executive power in a narrow sense and entrust them to bodies that it itself constitutes in whole or in part. But, even if the basic intention is that certain departments to enjoy extreme stability and non-executive control, this in practice leads to periodic crises in their functioning when governments and parliamentary majorities change. This article will examine several problematic issues that have arisen in the functioning of such bodies, as well as several interesting decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Administrative Court in relation to them.