Romania's EU membership implies for the national authorities the obligation to find means and methods for modernizing the state. This obligation implies, mainly, the harmonization of national legislation with the terms and conditions provided by international treaties, in order to realize public...

The European Court of Human Rights is the supreme interpreter of the Convention. Its case law highlights abundantly both general principles applicable to the relationship between state bodies and individuals and also certain conditions that must be met to comply with the rights provided by the...

The citizens rightly expect that public services adjust their actions to the changing demands of the 21st century. The European Commission adopted on September 2000 “The European Code of Good Administrative Behavior” which provides a useful guide for Commission staff in their relations with...

The research aims to clarify the issues regarding the admissibility of the presiding judge's order in contentious-administrative litigations. As we know, the public administration activity is governed by the principle of legality. According to this principle, public authorities operate within...

There are two major systems of administrative appeals – mandatory and optional. The first one, adopted by the large majority of legal systems (among which the German, Austrian and Dutch ones) precludes an action to a court in the absence of a prior administrative appeal. The second one...

Form is the sworn enemy of arbitrary! The existence of formal legal rules on non-contentious administrative procedure – applied in most public administration activity – represents a procedural guarantee for citizens and a counterweight for the discretionary powers of administration. Rule of...

Times are changing and we inside of them. Public service is performed adequately if the conditions of continuity, equality and adaptability are accomplished. These principles are in a way “laws” of public service. The citizens rightly expect that public services adjust their actions to the...

Optimal control theory is employed to characterize the socially optimal trajectory of the royalty per channel and the number of royalty-paying users of state-owned spectrum for broadcasting. The spectrum royalty is set by an omniscient public planner to maximize the sum of the discounted...

Public private partnerships allows public and local authorities to entrust an conomic operator both with regard to the financing structures and equipment that their design, construction, operation or management of public services, failing to be owners and by paying the operator of milestone...

L'objectif principal de cet article est de démontrer que l'utilisation de la méthode d'arbre de décision conduit a la rationalisation et a l'optimisation de la prise de décision publique. Quleques processus décisionnels impliquent l’adoption des succesions de décisions interdépendantes...