Developing Administrative Law in Europe: Natural Convergence or imposed Uniformity?

Abstract

In this contribution, the growing convergence between the administrative laws of the EU Member States and of the EU itself is discussed. Section 2 will deal with the top-down and bottom-up judge-made influences, which have already enhanced the process of convergence since the end of the fifties in the past century. Section 3 focuses on the growing Union regulatory influence on general administrative law, in recent years, and will introduce two regulatory initiatives aimed at Europeanization of general administrative law in the future. Section 4 contains some reflections on these initiatives and the main findings will be summarised in section 5.