PRINCÍP VIAZANOSTI PRÁVOM A VEREJNÁ SPRÁVA

• Authors: Michal Maslen

Title variants

EN

Principle of lawfulness and the public administration

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The legislation may vest the public administration with the power to exercise discretion. Jurisprudence stresses, that the power of discretion should be used in the minimum, as there is the risk of arbitrariness. Judicial law stresses that the public administration must not expand its discretion over the conditions established by law. When using the discretionary power the legal certainty and predictability of the actions of public administration must preserve. Otherwise the public administration would act arbitrarily. Therefore the question arises - in what extent and how are the public authorities bound by law, when exercising their discretionary power? The possible conclusion may define the power of administrative authority in connection with the scope that has been vested to it by law. The scope of administrative authority includes the extent of the relations that is administrated by the authority. The power of authority expresses the way the authority administrates this extent of relations. The most important conclusion is that the power of authority may interfere with the fundamental rights and freedoms only under the law. In this respect the exercise of authority’s power corresponds to the requirements of the Article no. 1 and Article no. 2 Paragraph no. 2 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic.

Keywords

EN

LEGAL STATE; GOVERNMENT; PRINCIPLE OF LAWFULNESS; COUNCIL OF EUROPE; CONSTITUTION OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22 – 40

Contributors

author

Michal Maslen

• Trnavská univerzita v Trnave, Právnická fakulta, Katedra správneho práva, práva životného prostredia a finančného práva, Trnava, Slovak Republic