{"title":"The Failure of Leniency as a Regulatory Transplant in Hungary","authors":"P. Láncos, Í. Horváth, Sándor Szemesi","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548754","url":null,"abstract":"While leniency has become the main pillar of EU cartel enforcement, its expediency can be questioned, particularly if we consider that the vast majority of leniency applications arrive after the first dawn raids or failed cartels. Leniency can be criticized not only for uncovering only\u0000 cartels that are already doomed, but also for its cartel-inducing effect, where periodic whistle blowing or the mutual threat of disclosure stabilizes anti-competitive agreements. The effectiveness of leniency policy is strongly influenced by the regulatory mix of incentives (immunity from\u0000 or reduction in fines, anonymity), sanctions (criminal sentences, disqualification from public procurement), and compensatory measures (private enforcement) introduced in the given jurisdiction. However, certain extra-legal factors may also play a key role: the success of leniency policies\u0000 differs across company size, whistle-blowing cultures, and awareness of leniency throughout the Member States. In our paper, we analyse Hungarian leniency policy as a legal transplant, describing its design and comparing it to the ECN Model Leniency Programme. We arrive at the conclusion that\u0000 its failure in Hungary can be explained by extra-legal factors, such as market structure, leniency awareness, company culture, and ingrained attitudes towards competitors and the state.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126089835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procedural Rights in Lithuanian Administrative Law – Resistance Fuelled by the Past?","authors":"Agno Andrijauskaito","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548781","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the prevailing trend towards the codification of administrative procedures on the European plane – both on supranational and domestic levels –, the Lithuanian legal system stays immune to it. The purpose of this article is, hence, to explore the underlying reasons\u0000 for the said resistance towards a clear enunciation of procedural rights on statutory level as well as its more practical implications in Lithuania. Namely, the main focus lies on the analysis of the said deficiencies as reflected by the administrative case law. In order to reach this goal,\u0000 firstly, the (somewhat limited) notion of administrative procedure found in the legal framework of Lithuania is dissected and compared to respective notions found in few other legal systems of EU Member States boasting more comprehensive codifications of administrative procedure. Secondly,\u0000 the relevant administrative case law in which the paradigmatic examples of procedural rights (such as the right to be heard and access to one's file) can be found is analysed. In the end, the reasons of the said resistance towards codification of procedural rights in the Lithuanian legal system\u0000 are offered together with a reflection on whether that can still be justified in view of the results revealed by the case law analysis, or whether the time to innovate has come and the more coherent and logically-organized system of administrative procedure is needed.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131899427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Independent Economic Regulators in Belgium: Contextualising Local Resistance to a Global Trend in the Light of the Belgian Economic Constitution","authors":"Emmanuel Slautsky","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548727","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the American experience, the European Union has made it compulsory for Member States since the 1990s to entrust certain regulatory powers to national authorities independent from the government in several sectors of the economy. Such a development is part of a larger trend\u0000 that has taken place at the global level since the 1980s. The choice for independent regulators with wide powers must ensure credible and effective regulation of the economy, away from the shortterm thinking that plagues politicians. Yet, the creation of independent regulators of the economy\u0000 does not fit well with the constitutional, political and economic traditions of several European states, such as Belgium. In Belgium, the creation of independent economic regulators has faced resistance. Using Belgium as a case-study, this paper seeks to contextualise this resistance and argues\u0000 that it should be understood in the light of the mismatch between the (neo-liberal) view regarding the respective roles of 'experts', politicians and economic actors in the regulation of the economy that is behind the creation of independent economic regulators and the Belgian economic constitution.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116343039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Google Ireland Case and the Legal Battle over Digital Taxes in the European Union","authors":"Giulio Allevato, Fernando Pastor-Merchante","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548808","url":null,"abstract":"The preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Google Ireland case turned on the compatibility with the rules on free movement of some of the administrative arrangements put in place by Hungary in order to administer its controversial advertisement tax (namely,\u0000 the obligation to register and the penalties attached to the failure to comply with that obligation). The preliminary ruling offers some interesting insights on the way in which the Court assesses the compatibility with the freedom to provide services of national administrative arrangements\u0000 aimed at ensuring the effective collection of taxes. This is a topical issue in the context of the recent efforts made by Member States to tax the digital economy more effectively.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132238694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Romanian Ombudsman – A Legal Transplant Moulded by the Domestic Legal Culture","authors":"D. Dragoș","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548790","url":null,"abstract":"Romanian administrative law has undergone transitory challenges, both following the changing of the political regime in 1989 and following the EU accession in 2007. The transplanting of international models of legal institutions has been strenuous at times has been strenuous. This paper\u0000 showcases the trials and tribulations of a novel institution for the Romanian system: the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman was meant to mediate between the administration and citizens, to issue recommendations, and to foster good administrative practices. Over time, however, its role has been diverted\u0000 to that of a constitutional mediator between the powers of the state.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varga Z., The Effectiveness of Köbler Liability in National Courts","authors":"R. Condon","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Case of Legal Certainty, an Uncertain Transplant Process in France","authors":"Emilie Chevalier","doi":"10.7590/187479821X16190058548745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479821X16190058548745","url":null,"abstract":"The reception of the fundamental principle of legal certainty in France shows how the characteristics of the French administrative system have consequences for the development and consideration of this principle. An analysis of the transplantation process reveals that it has been largely\u0000 prepared, knowingly or unknowingly, to allow the principle of legal certainty to find at least a partial place in the French administrative system. It also shows the central role of the administrative judge in this process which led to the adaptation of the principle of legal certainty to\u0000 the French legal order, and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126349906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dialectic of Effective Judicial Protection and Mutual Trust in the European Administrative Space: Towards the Transnational Judicial Review of Manifest Error?","authors":"C. Warin","doi":"10.7590/187479820X16098444161640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479820X16098444161640","url":null,"abstract":"The courts of the EU's Member States have a duty to ensure the effective protection of individuals who are confronted with administrative decisions potentially infringing their rights. However, the principle of mutual trust is often understood as a limit to this protection. This is\u0000 in so far as it requires domestic courts to abstain from reviewing decisions made by administrations of other Member States, even though such decisions may have effects beyond national boundaries. As transnational administrative procedures become increasingly frequent, this article analyses\u0000 the implications of the principles of effective judicial protection and of mutual trust on the review of such procedures by domestic courts. It shows how, by gradually allowing domestic courts to review certain types of manifest errors committed beyond their national jurisdiction, the CJEU\u0000 is moving past the apparent opposition of these principles. It finally argues that developing the transnational judicial review of manifest error may help improve the effective judicial protection of individuals.","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124450401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eliantonio, M and Backes C, Cases, Materials and Text on Judicial Review of Administrative Action, Hart Publishing 2019, 1st edn, ISBN 9781509921478, 1032 pp., £49.50","authors":"Giulio Napolitano","doi":"10.7590/187479820X16098444161802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479820X16098444161802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114914649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marta Cantero Gamito and Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, The Role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering Standards, Contracts and Codes, Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, ISBN 9781788118408, 352 pp. Hardback available for £105","authors":"S. Röttger-Wirtz","doi":"10.7590/187479820x16098444161811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7590/187479820x16098444161811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294114,"journal":{"name":"Review of European Administrative Law","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132927469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}