The Pan-European General Principles of Administrative Law

Abstract

This chapter is dedicated to exploring the impact of the pan-European principles of good administration on Serbian administrative law. It shows that the main (and almost exclusive) path for reception of these principles in Serbia has been through legislation, including the ‘core’ domains of administrative law. This chapter furthermore reveals that the Serbian legal system only rarely relies on alternatives to legislative enactment such as direct application of ratified international agreements or development of standards through judicial and administrative case law. It identifies that the reasons for this are the language barrier, the lack of online dissemination of the relevant Council of Europe materials, and the prevailing ‘formalistic’ attitude—to name but a few.