Discretionary Power of Public Administration and Control of Public Debt: The Citizen and the Judge between the Law and the Precedent

• Authors: Giovanni Pesce
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Discretionary power, a central feature of administrative power, comes into play when administration is called to select an option between two or more solution and a way of balancing between public and private interests. After the 20th century, devastated by wars, public deficit and debt, most State models circumscribed their markets to the detriment of the global one, turning the old economic models into new ones after the 1958 Treaty of Rome and, after the phase following the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, and the crisis of 2008, the final concept is that the EU Members States should restructure the public finances, facing the increase of the public goods and services demand and with the rested rights. The purpose of this article was to enquire whether the European and national rules may limit the discretionary power while expanding the administrative one.

PL

Władza dyskrecjonalna jako główna cecha władzy administracyjnej ma miejsce wówczas, gdy administracja jest upoważniona do przypisania konkretnego znaczenia, dokonując wyboru spośród kilku możliwości, który jest sposobem zrównoważenia interesów publicznych i prywatnych. Po XX stuleciu, zdewastowanym wojnami, deficytem publicznym i długiem, większość modeli państwowych ograniczyła swoje rynki ze szkodą dla rynku globalnego, zmieniając stare modele ekonomiczne w nowe po traktacie rzymskim z 1958 r., traktacie z Maastricht z 1992 r. i kryzysie, jaki nastąpił w 2008 r. Ostateczną propozycją jest to, że państwa członkowskie UE powinny zrestrukturyzować finanse publiczne w obliczu wzrostu popytu na dobra publiczne i usługi. Celem artykułu było zbadanie, czy regulacje europejskie i krajowe mogą ograniczać uprawnienia dyskrecjonalne przy rozszerzaniu zakresu przepisów administracyjnych.

Keywords

EN

public debt; citizen; public administration; discretionary power; judicial control

PL

dług publiczny; obywatel; administracja publiczna; uprawnienia dyskrecjonalne; kontrola sądowa

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2020

online

2020-06-30

Contributors

author

Giovanni Pesce

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/sil.2020.29.3.117-134