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European Journal of International Law 2008 19(5):1120-1122; doi:10.1093/ejil/chn065
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The European Journal of International Law Vol. 19 no. 5 © EJIL 2008; all rights reserved

Droit administratif européen

Jean-Bernard Auby and Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère (eds). Droit administratif européen. Brussels: Bruylant, 2007. Pp. 1136. {euro}145,00. ISBN: 9782802724582.

The debate about the future of the European Constitution since the clash of the French and Dutch referenda in 2005 has partly eclipsed the interest in the administrative dimension of European integration. Considering the given situation of an enduring blockade in the European institutional reform process, the editors of the present handbook propose rather to focus on another essential aspect of the European integration project: the development of mechanisms belonging to a European administrative law, where the ‘work still is in progress’ (see at 20).

Their concept of this particular branch of EC law not only comprises administrative rules and institutions, which the EC itself provides, but the 43 authors of the book also treat diverse questions arising in the face of the growing influence of EC law on the administrative law systems of the Member States. In its first half, the book presents the actors and instruments of administrative law on the EC level (Section 1), the modes of administration of EC law by EC and national institutions (Section 2), and the general principles of European administrative law (Section 3). Its second half deals with the general influences of EC law on national administrative law (Section 4), the different mechanisms that national administrative law uses to make EC law effective (Section 5), and the particular influences of EC law on special branches of French administrative law (Section 6). A short concluding section refers to the problem of the convergence of Member States’ national administrative law systems under the influence of European administrative law (Section 7).

The fact that the editors have won a large number of specialists in the field of European administrative law to expose these various matters of that dynamic branch of EC law is an advantage on the one hand, but on the other it is partly inconvenient regarding the book's general conception. Almost all of the articles give a concise and competent overview of the questions treated by their respective authors. That is a lot to say in a book of more than 1,000 pages, featuring a compilation of contributions by 43 authors. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the considerable ‘reservoir’ of expertise on particular questions has the consequence of perfectly exposing a great number of details, sometimes at the expense of general appreciations on the future of the European administrative law construction process – despite the short introductory chapters to each part of the book.

This shortcoming is particularly illustrated by the fact that its last section – referring to the general debate on the advantages and problems of a further convergence between national administrative laws under European influence – consists of only two contributions. Neither Marie Gautier's article on the ‘Acte administratif transnational’ nor Catherine M. Donnelly's interesting comparison of the federal US administrative law system with the relationship between EC law and Member States’ administrative law, directly treats the central issue of the European administrative law debate: to what extent do we need – and do we want – convergence between the various national administrative laws in Europe to continue the European integration process. The editor's short introductory note to this concluding section seems to opt for a limited harmonization of Member States’ administrative laws in the future; the point could have deserved further exploration.

There certainly is no lack of competent information in this book, but there seems to be a certain lack of room for the authors to express their views on the process as a whole. As a handbook on the various facets of the European integration process in the field of administrative law, the book gives an excellent overview of the multitude of questions that this process generated for Member States, with a natural focus on the consequences for French administrative law. However, the reader who searches for a synthesis on European administrative law, or looks for controversy and critical appreciation, should direct his interest to other works of the participating authors, especially to Auby's La globalisation, le droit et l’Etat (2003).


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Jean-Bernard Auby and Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, Introduction générale;

Jean-Paul Jacqué, Introduction : Pouvoir législatif et pouvoir exécutif dans l’Union européenne;

Jean-Paul Jacqué, Le Conseil de l’Union européenne;

Augustin Garcia Ureta, La Commission européenne;

Edoardo Chiti, Les agences et l’administration directe dans l’union européenne;

Claire Françoise Durand, Typologie des interventions;

Olivier Dubos and Marie Gautier, Les actes communautaires d’exécution;

Dominique Ritleng, Les contrats de l’administration communautaire;

Fabrice Picod and Laurent Coutron, La responsabilité de la Communauté européenne du fait de son activité administrative;

Henri Oberdorff, La fonction publique de l’Union européenne;

Jacques Ziller, Introduction: Les concepts d’administration directe, d’administration indirecte et de co-administration et les fondements du droit administratif européen;

Claudio Franchini, Les notions d’administration indirecte et de coadministration;

Edoardo Chiti, Les agences, l’administration indirecte et la coadministration;

Jean-Luc Sauron, Les réseaux d’administrations communautaires et nationales;

Heinrich Siedentopf and Benedikt Speer, La notion d’espace administratif européen;

Jürgen Schwarze, Introduction: Les sources et principes du droit administratif européen;

Susana De La Sierra, Les sources des principes du droit administratif européen;

Diana-Urania Galetta, Le principe de proportionnalité;

Jacques Ziller, Le principe de subsidiarité;

Loïc Azoulai, Le principe de légalité;

Paul Cassia, Le principe du droit au juge et à une protection juridictionnelle effective;

Anastasia Iliopoulou, Le principe d’égalité et de non-discrimination;

Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, Le principe de precaution;

Jean-Bernard Auby and Delphine Dero-Bugny, Les principes de sécurité juridique et de confiance légitime;

Loïc Azoulai, Le principe de bonne administration;

Ludovic Coudray, La transparence et l’accès aux documents;

Jacques Ziller, Introduction: Les droits administratifs nationaux: caractéristiques générales;

Patrick Birkinshaw, Le droit administratif anglais dans le creuset européen;

Rainer Arnold, Le droit administratif allemand dans le creuset européen;

Domenico Sorace, Le droit administratif italien dans le creuset européen;

Marta Franch, Le droit administratif espagnol dans le creuset européen;

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Le droit administratif polonais dans le creuset européen;

Mario P. Chiti, Introduction: Les droits administratifs nationaux entre harmonisation et pluralisme eurocompatible;

Rostane Mehdi, L’autonomie institutionnelle et procédurale et le droit administratif;

Camille Broyelle, La responsabilité de l’État pour non-exécution du droit communautaire;

Jean-Luc Sauron, L’adaptation de l’administration d’État à la mise en oeuvre du droit communautaire;

Rozen Noguellou, Le régime de l’acte administratif de mise en oeuvre du droit communautaire;

Catherine Haguenau-Moizard, Les Etats et le respect du droit communautaire par leurs sujets de droit: mécanismes de droit administratif (contrôles, sanctions);

Paul Cassia, La mise en oeuvre du droit communautaire dans le contentieux administratif;

Camille Broyelle, L’imputation de la responsabilité dans les situations d’exécution nationale du droit communautaire;

Christine Bertrand, Les droits des administrés à la mise en oeuvre du droit communautaire dans leurs rapports avec l’administration;

Jean-Claude Bonichot, Incidences du droit communautaire dans les droits administratifs nationaux (analyse dans le cas français): Introduction;

Dominique Ritleng, L’influence du droit communautaire sur les catégories organiques du droit administratif;

Maylis Douence, L’influence du droit communautaire sur les collectivités territoriales;

Martine Lombard, L’impact du droit communautaire sur les entreprises publiques;

Rozen Noguellou, L’influence du droit communautaire sur le régime des décisions administratives;

Ludovic Coudray, L’incidence du droit communautaire sur le statut des informations publiques;

François Lichère, L’influence du droit communautaire sur le droit des contrats publics;

François Lombard, L’impact du droit communautaire sur le service public;

Paul Lignières, Le droit communautaire et la distinction des activités régaliennes et non-régaliennes;

Vincent Tchen, L’impact du droit communautaire sur la police administrative;

Paul Cassia, L’impact du droit communautaire sur le contentieux administratif;

Camille Broyelle, L’influence du droit communautaire sur le régime de la responsabilité administrative;

Henri Oberdorff, L’influence du droit communautaire sur la fonction publique;

Jean-Bernard Auby and Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, Degré de convergence des droits administratifs dans le creuset du droit européen: Introduction;

Marie Gautier, Acte administratif transnational et droit communautaire;

Catherine M. Donnelly, Les rapports entre droit administratif fédéral et droits administratifs des Etats aux Etats-Unis: comparaison avec l’Union Européenne.

Stephan Neidhardt

Maître en droit, LL.M., Berlin

Email: Stephan.Neidhardt{at}googlemail.com

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