Legal Challenges in EU Administrative Law Towards an Integrated Administration ppt

[...]... entitled ‘European Administrative Law – The Move Towards an Integrated Administration held in Luxembourg in February 2007 The editors would like to thank the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg and the Centre of European Law at King’s College London for their generous financial support for the conference and the book project x Introduction: towards a legal framework for Europe’s integrated administration. .. accountability, legality, legitimacy and efficiency of the actors involved in administration in the EU and their actions In short, this volume is a contribution to the developing understanding of the fast evolving area of EU administrative law The development towards today’s system of integrated administration of the EU has been defined through the evolution of legal, political and administrative conditions... of administration , pointing to ‘the complex interaction between supranational and national administrative bodies in the enforcement of EU law and identifying four main ‘structures of EU administrative governance in the policy phase of implementation’, namely governance by committees (including the Lamfalussy type procedures), governance by agencies, governance by administrative networks and governance... administrative implementation in the European Union legal order is still essentially a matter of direct and indirect execution and responds to the general model of executive federalism.1 In a different vein, 1 See, for example, S Kadelbach, ‘European Administrative Law and the Law of a Europeanised Administration , in C Joerges and R Dehousse, Good Governance in Europe’s Integrated Market, Oxford (Oxford... 2006) 1 2 Legal challenges in EU administrative law an area without internal frontiers require cooperation and coordination Such cooperation and coordination can take place, for example, through information exchange, joint warning systems, coordinated remedies for problems arising and a wealth of other similar systems Since the Single Market programme in the late 1980s and early 1990s, increasingly diverse... main characteristic of structures of administrative cooperation is their procedural nature These structures now increasingly integrate European and national administrations to a degree well expanding an understanding of the EU as a quasi-federal two-level structure.2 Integrated administration in Europe is therefore not so much a multilevel system in the sense of a hierarchy superimposed on MS administrations.3... to H.C.H Hofmann and A.H Türk (eds), EU Administrative Governance, Edward Elgar (Cheltenham, 2006); see in particular H.C.H Hofmann and A.H Türk, An Introduction to EU Administrative Governance’, p 1 f., where the notion of ‘networks of administration is presented; H.C.H Hofmann and A.H Türk, ‘Policy Implementation’, p 74, discussing the main structures of EU administrative governance in the policy... of administering joint policies Legal problems of an integrated administration exist against the background of the transformation of both the EU Member States and the E(E)C and EU in the process of European integration National administrations had developed under national public law as state-specific structures These reflected different identities, historical traditions of organization and certain underlying... Many of the developments of administrative cooperation across jurisdictions have certain parallels in some federal legal systems Despite this, the EU legal system has taken such a specific evolutionary path that many of the problems arising are distinct and require specific understanding from an EU, a constitutional and an administrative point of view Introduction 3 forms and procedural models of integrated. .. challenges arising from integrated administration The first part of the book presents different conceptualizations of administrative cooperation in the EU Edoardo Chiti discusses models of cooperative administration in the EU in the area of single-case decision making for the implementation of EU law across the range from indirect administration over bottom-up and top-down procedures to direct administration . alt="" Legal Challenges in EU Administrative Law