CONSIDERATIONS ON GOOD ADMINISTRATION

• Main Authors: ANA-MARIA GHERGHINA, ISABELA STANCEA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2013-05-01
• Series: Challenges of the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: good administration; public authorities; citizens; Human Rights
• Online Access: http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2013_articles/index.php?dir=1_Juridical_Sciences%2F&download=cks_2013_law_art_032.pdf

The concept of good administration has a double meaning, concerning on one hand the means of providing services by the public authorities, and on the other hand, measures concerning the relation between the public authorities and the citizens. We believe that good administration considers the manner in which the State structures holding powers in matters of administration acts within the limits of the law and using the social power entrusted on them, in order to carry out these tasks in the most reliable, ideal and flawless manner. The principle of legitimacy is set out in the preamble of the European Convention on Human Rights under the words “rule of law”, which, in public administration, means that the organization and activity of public authorities should be made on the basis of law and within the limits set by law