Common Administrative Space of the European Union

• Author: Teofil Lazar
• Profession: Department of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
• Pages: 157-165

Common Administrative Space of the European Union

Associate teacher Teofil LAZĂR

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Abstract

The European Union aims to establish a Common Space where individua ls and

Member States benefit from the same rights and obligations on the basis of a common

legal order. EU administrative law and administrative practices are the most receptive

areas to uniform conditions and rules. The EU's Common Spaces cover all the regulatory

areas of the Union, starting with the geog raphical space and ending with the political

integration of the Member States (sovereign competences). For example, in the field of

establishing a common organization of agricultural markets. The existence of an efficient

and democratic administration is one of the most important criteria defining the moder-

nity of a country.

Keywords: European Administrative Space, public administration, administra-

tive cooperation, European administrative law.

JEL Classification: K23, K33

1. Introduction

The European Union is prone to creating a common Space where the in-

dividuals and Member States would benefit from the same rights and obligations,

on the background of a community legal order. The EU administrative law and

the administrative practice are the most receptive domains at uniform conditions

and rules

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. The EU common space incorporates all the competent regulatory do-

mains of the European Union, starting with the geographical area and ending with

the political integration of the Member States (ceding sovereign competences)

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Teofil Lazăr - Department of Law, Bucharest Universit y of Economic Studies, Romania,

teofil_lazar@yahoo.com.

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See Cătălin-Silviu Săraru, Spațiul administrativ European, in Ioan Alexandru, Ilie Gorjan, Ivan

Vasile Ivanoff, Cezar Corneliu Manda, Alina-Livia Nicu, Cătălin-Silviu Săraru, Drept

administrativ european, Editura Lumina-Lex, Bucharest, 2005, p. 95-146.

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Terminology (o.u.). Since the enforcement of the Treaty of Lisbon, on December 1st, 2009, the

European Union has legal personality and has taken over the competence previously delegated to

the European Community. Therefore, the community law became the European Union law and

includes also all the dispositions adopted in the past, on the basis of the Treaty of European Union,

in the previous version of the Treaty of Lisbon. In this article, the “community law” term shall be

used when we speak about the case-law of the Court of Justice previously to the enforcement of the

Treaty of Lisbon. Beside the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)

continues to exist. Considering that, basically the Court of Justice competence, as regards Euratom,

is the same with the Eu ropean Union competence – and, for clarity – any reference to the EU law

shall cover the Euratom law. The Community acquis shall be hereinafter called the “Union acquis”

or the “European Union acquis”.