Les rapports des organes de l'administration communale et des organes de l'administration des communautés socio-politiques plus larges

Abstract

Relationships between the administrative organs of the commune and of the larger socio-political communities. In the Yugoslav political system, decentralization has been so organized as to allow for the specific nature of the country. The responsibility of the administrative organs lies within the framework of the same territorial community, each organ being answerable for its acts to the territorial assembly and the executive organ of the socio-political community to which it is attached. The allocation of responsibilities between the administrative organs of the commune and the administrative organs of wider socio-political communities is laid down by the Constitution and by the laws of the Republics. When it comes to problems of common interest, or of law enforcement, what is the nature of the relationships existing among the administrative organs of the various sociopolitical communities? According to the particular case, there may be collabora- tory relationships between the federal, the republican and local administrative organs, or a supervisory relationship exercised by the administrative organs of larger socio-political communities over the acts of communal administration, whether of a general or an individual nature. This supervisory function may relate either to the legality of administrative acts, or equally to their appropriateness. Correspondingly, the administrative organs of the Republic have obligations toward the communal administrations. There is a tendency to dispense with the hierarchical element in relations among administrative organs. Evaluation of this system of decentralization, which is closely linked to socio- economic relations in the life of Yugoslavia, leads one to wonder how far it ensures the self-managing nature of decentralized units while at the same time safeguarding the general national interest.