This course analyzes the origins, the development and the recent consolidation of European Union administrative law system. At first, we will examine the principles and the sources of this law branch, inspecting their impact on the national legal system. Then, lessons will be devoted to the European concept of public administration as well as the European administrative functions. Thus we will examine the organization and the administrative procedure of the European administrative apparatus.
M.P. Chiti (edited by), Diritto Amministrativo Europeo, Giuffrè, Milano, 2013, capp. I, II, IV, V, VI, VIII.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to offer a critical knowledge to European administrative law, encouraging the comprehension of the innovative capacity of this branch of law and the understanding of the impact on the development of Italian administrative law.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
The course is based on frontal lessons. Some conferences on interesting and actual matters will be held throughout the course by distinguished Italian professors.
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
The public power of the European Union: origins, membership enlargement and the concept of supranationality.
The sources of European administrative law: the substantive principles; European treaties; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; CEDU; binding legal instruments (regulations, directives and decisions), non-binding instruments (resolutions, opinions) and other instruments (EU institutions’ internal regulations, EU action programmes); the impact of the European law on the national legal system.
The European administrative action.
The European concept of “public administration”: body governed by public law; in house providing; the limits of privatization.
The organization of European administrative apparatus: committees, agencies, indipendent authorities and coadministration.
The European administrative acts and the European administrative procedures: notion and regulation.