OBLIGATORY COMMISSIONS AND CONSULTATIVE BODIES IN LEGISLATIVE BODIES OF TERRITORIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT UNITS IN POLAND AND TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES IN FRANCE – DIRECTIONS OF CHANGES

The value of consultative democracy can not be overestimated, especially considering the local and supra-local administration gradually bringing the resident closer to self-government communities. Therefore, this issue is important and still requires improvement in the area of mutual relations between self-government authorities and residents of communes, districts/departments, voivodeships/ regions. The search for common relations in participating in the management of the self-government community is a current challenge facing the territorial self-government in both legal orders. The comparative perspective in the scope of the functioning of commissions and consultative bodies of an obligatory nature is aimed at getting acquainted with the consultative administration in the territorial self-government in both legal orders and proposing directions of changes to Polish legal regulations in this area to improve the consultative dialogue and its normative tools. 1 Research project carried out at the Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University financed from funds for statutory activities on the basis of the decision no. WPAiSM/DS/3/2016-KON. * Prof. nadzw. dr hab. Monika Augustyniak, Associate Professor Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.