Types of administrative actions Flashcards
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Germany - Contracts
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- Bilateral and consensual
- Administrative law contract:
- In the area of public law
- Constitutes, amend or annul a legal relationship
- Contract
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Germany - Verwaltungsakt
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- Act of sovereign nature - Order, decision or other sovereign measure = Unilateral - Can be unwritten
- Issued by an authority - Can be individuals vested with public powers
- To regulate (= change) the legal sphere of an individual - As opposed to realakt
- Of an individual case - Determined (concrete and abstract) or determinable (concrete only)
- Direct external legal effects - As opposed to internal measures (administrative direction)
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Germany - Realakt
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- Order, decision or other sovereign measure = Unilateral
- Issued by an authority
- Does not regulate - Factual action (public information or factual conduct)
4
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Germany - Administrative Direction
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Internal measure - On how the administration shall use its discretion
5
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Germany - Executive regulations
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- Order, decision or other sovereign measure = Unilateral
- Issued by an executive authority (ministry)
- To regulate (= change) the legal sphere of an individual - As opposed to realakt
- Abstract
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Germany - By-laws
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- Order, decision or other sovereign measure = Unilateral
- Issued by an organ of indirect state administration (municipality)
- To regulate (= change) the legal sphere of an individual - As opposed to realakt
- Abstract
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The Netherlands - Besluit
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- Decision - Unilateral, written
- Ordered by a public authority - Can be private individuals vested with public powers
- For the regulation of (= change) the legal sphere of an individual
- Individual or general:
- Individual = Order beschikking (to a specific addressee or a specific object)
- General = Decision of general application - With direct external legal effect - No internal measure
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The Netherlands - Internal measure
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Guideline
9
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The Netherlands - Types of decisions of general application
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- Generally binding regulation - General and abstract
- Concrete norms - General and concrete
- Policy rules - To guide the administration in its exercise of public powers
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The Netherlands - Factual action
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- Public information
2. Factual conduct
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The Netherlands - Contract
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- Bilateral and consensual
- Private law contract
- Policy contract - A contract concluded to achieve a public goal
- Competence contract - The administration binds itself to exercise its competence in a way that is favourable to the 2nd party
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France - Décision individuelle
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- Decision - Unilateral
- Issued by a public authority - Can be individuals vested with powers of service public
- For the regulation of the legal sphere of an individual
- Individual and concrete = Determined addresses
- Direct external or internal effect
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France - Internal measures
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- Circulaire - From higher civil servant to lower civil servant
- Guidelines - Internal rules on the exercise of discretionary power
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France - Décision réglementaire
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- Decision - Unilateral
- Issued by a public authority - Can be individuals vested with powers of service public
- For the regulation of the legal sphere of an individual
- General and abstract
- Direct external or internal effect
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France - Décision particulière
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- Decision - Unilateral
- Issued by a public authority - Can be individuals vested with powers of service public
- For the regulation of the legal sphere of an individual
- Addresses are not determined but determinable
- Direct external or internal effect