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The Council of Europe (CoE) has a long-standing record of promoting standards of good administration in the European legal space. Today, these standards encapsulate the entire range of general organisational, procedural and substantive legal institutions meant to ensure a democratically legitimised, open and transparent administration respecting the rule of law. Therefore, these standards are about the ‘limiting function’ of administrative law, that is, its function to protect individuals from arbitrary power, to legitimise administrative action and to combat corruption and nepotism and other ‘diseases’ with which even a democratic polity willing to be governed by the rule of law may be infected. These CoE standards can be described as ‘pan-European principles of good administration.
Lecture at Vilnius University.
§ 1 European Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law: Specialties of EU Administrative Law / EU Administrative Law and ‘Unionalisation’ of National Administrative Law / Functions of Administrative Law / European Administrative Law = EU Administrative Law? / „Speyer Understanding“ of European Administrative Law
§ 2 Administrative Law and the Council of Europe:
Aims, Organs and Instruments of the Council of Europe / European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Impact of Administrative Law /
Other Conventions in Terms of Art. 15 (1) of the Statute of the Council of Europe / Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the CoE Concerning Administrative Law / Concept of Pan-European General Principles of Good Administration
This book is about the existence and effectiveness of written and unwritten standards of good administration developed within the framework of the Council of Europe (CoE). It analyses the (possible) impact of these standards on and their added value for the domestic administrative law of the CoE’s forty-seven Member States (representing more than 800 million people). This book argues that these standards, called here the ‘pan-European general principles of good administration’