Local Self-governments’ Competences in Administrative Procedures related to Prioritized Investments in Hungary

Abstract

This study examines a special administrative procedural law instrument that serves the competitiveness of the economy in Hungary. This procedural regime on prioritized investments became a part of the law after the accession to the European Union. The research clarified the specialties of the process and the relations between them highlighted by the competent public administrative bodies, the Government and the local self-governments concerned with this procedure. The implementation of such investments raises constitutional issues, through the presumed violation of local self-governments’ competences. The analysis presents the practice of the Hungarian Constitutional Court.