Implementation of the Good Governance Principles on the International Level

Abstract

Abstract By the end of the twentieth century, the concept of good governance was applied in specific policy fields like international environmental law and in the more general frame of policy by the international organizations. The good governance perspective has also been developed in the context of globalizing administrative law. At present, the implementation of good governance has a much broader meaning than it did twenty years ago. The concept is clearly in development and transition. Elements such as propriety, transparency, participation, accountability, accountability and human rights have been added to the concept. All these elements have been incorporated into several documents over the course of time. Within the framework of the Council of Europe, the ECtHR develops its own interpretation of the principle of good governance in the review of government action. We see that the principles of international law and more specifically the principle of effectiveness and the principle of legitimate expectation have been applied by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. At the grassroots of international law, good governance has been accepted as a principle of law, in national legal systems, and from there in regional and international institutions. So, it functions as a norm for the administration and the court uses elements of the principle in its review. The concept is applied as such and in the different policy fields. In describing the conditions for principles of international law we conclude that the good governance principle is a principle of international law.