Good Administration and the Council of Europe Law, Principles, and Effectiveness

by Stelkens, Ulrich; Andrijauskaite, Agne

• ISBN13: 9780198861539
• ISBN10: 0198861532
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-11-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Good Administration and the Council of Europe: Law, Principles, and Effectiveness examines the existence and effectiveness of written and unwritten standards of good administration developed within the framework of the Council of Europe (CoE) and in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. These standards - called 'pan- European general principles of good administration' - cover the entire range of general organizational, procedural, and substantive legal institutions meant to ensure a democratically legitimized, open, and transparent administration respecting the rule of law. They are about the 'limiting function' of administrative law: its function to protect individuals from arbitrary power, to legitimize administrative action, and to combat corruption. This book analyses the sources and functions of the pan-European general principles of good administration and seeks to uncover how deeply they are rooted in the domestic legal systems of the CoE Member States. It comprises 28 country reports dedicated to an in-depth exploration of the impact of these standards on the national legal systems of the Member States written by respective experts on these systems. It argues that the pan-European general principles of good administration lead to a certain harmonization of the legal orders of the Member States with regard to the limiting function of administrative law despite the many fundamental differences between their administrative and legal systems. It comes to the further conclusion that the pan-European general principles of good administration can be considered as a concretization of the founding values of the CoE and describes the 'administrative law obligations' a Member State entered into when joining the CoE.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Setting the Scene for a 'True European Administrative Law', Ulrich Stelkens and Agn? Andrijauskait?
PART I: Foundations: Sources and Methods
1. Sources and Content of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration, Ulrich Stelkens and Agn? Andrijauskait?
2. How to Assess the Effectiveness of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration, Ulrich Stelkens and Agn? Andrijauskait?
PART II: The Receptivity to the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration of the Administrative Law of Founding States of the Council of Europe
3. The Impact of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on United Kingdom Administrative Law: Shared Principles in a Strained Relationship, Sarah Nason
4. Belgian Pluralism and Pragmatism: A Differentiated Reception for the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration, Yseult Marique
5. The Impact of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on the Administrative Law of France: Towards Selective Integration, Emilie Chevalier
6. The Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in the Italian Legal System: A (Sometimes) Contradictory Path, Marco Macchia and Claudia Figliolia
7. The Dutch Paradox. The Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in the Netherlands, Janneke Gerards, Frank van Ommeren, and Johan Wolswinkel
8. The Council of Europe and Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration - the Influence on the Administrative Law of Norway, Inger-Johanne Sand
9. The Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in Sweden - Undeniable but Partial Vehicles of Change, Jane Reichel
PART III: The Receptivity to the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration of the Administrative Law of Accession States of the First Generation: 1949 - 1970
10. The Right to Good Administration under Turkish Law - the Process of Integrating with the Legal Culture of the Council of Europe, M?sl?m Akinci
11. The Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on German Law, Ulrich Stelkens
12. The Austrian Perception of the Council of Europe - with Particular Regard to Administrative Law, Alexander Balthasar
13. The Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on Swiss Law - between Exemplary Reception of the ECHR and Frictions due to Direct Democracy, Nadja Braun Binder and Ardita Driza Maurer
PART IV: The Receptivity to the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration of the Administrative Law of Accession States of the Second Generation: The Iberian Peninsula
14. The Impact of the ECHR and of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on the Administrative Law of Portugal, Rui Tavares Lanceiro
15. The Council of Europe as a Source of General Principles of Good Administration in Spain, Dolores Utrilla Fern?ndez-Bermejo
PART V: The Receptivity to the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration of the Administrative Law of Accession States of the Third Generation: the Eastward Enlargement
16. Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in Finland: from Margin to Centre?, Ida Koivisto
17. The Innocuous Impact of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on Hungarian Law and Legal Practice, Petra Lea L?ncos
18. The Role of the Council of Europe in Improving General Principles of Administrative Law in Poland - Remarks on the 25th Anniversary of Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and Marek Wierzbowski
19. Implementation of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in Bulgaria?, Vesco Paskalev
20. Europeanization through Constitutionalism: Estonia, Madis Ernits and Karmen P?hkla
21. Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in Lithuania - A Success Story with Caveats, Jurgita Pauzait?-Kulvinskien? and Agn? Andrijauskait?
22. The Moderate Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on Slovenian Administrative Law, Ales Fercic
23. Lip Service or Genuine Consideration of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration in Czechia?, Filip Krepelka
24. A Tale of Europeanization: Romanian Administrative Law and its Deference to the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration, Dacian C. Dragos and Cosmina Chirila
25. Good Administration in the Administrative Law of the Republic of Latvia, Janis Neimanis
26. The Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on Albanian Law - a Struggle between Law-Making and Implementation, Irma Spahiu
27. The Impact of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration on Croatian Administrative Law - Arising from the Case Law of the Croatian Constitutional Court, Lana Ofak
28. Georgian Administrative Law - from Soviet Era to European Standards, Tamar Gvaramadze
29. Towards Implementation of the Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration through Reforms of the Public Administration System: the Case of Armenia, Vache Kalashyan and Tigran Grigoryan
30. The Pan-European General Principles of Administrative Law - the Serbian Legislator's Inspiration and Conscience, Vuk Cucic
PART VI: Conclusion
31. Mapping, Explaining and Constructing the Effectiveness of the Pan-European Principles of Good Administration: Overall Assessment, Ulrich Stelkens, Agn? Andrijauskait?, and Yseult Marique