Members A-F

Members G-L

Members M-R

Members S-Z

The ReNEUAL Steering Committee has agreed for the years 2018 onwards to focus its research on three topics highly relevant for EU Administrative law and established the following working groups accordingly:

ReNEUAL working group 2.1: “Common European Principles of Administrative Law and Good Administration”

This working group focuses on certain fundamentals principles of administrative law shared by the national administrative laws of European States, the legal order of the European Union and the law of the Council of Europe. It develops the comparative analysis and the examination of supranational rules carried out for the elaboration of the Model Rules in two main directions.

First, it considers the procedural norms that are applied by the legal systems of Europe, as well as the content of procedural protection on the basis of a factual methodology; that is, it compares the answers that are most likely to be given to a set of hypothetical cases. Second, it explores → the principles of administrative law shared by the national administrative law of European States, in the light of the work of the Council of Europe, including not only the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, but also the resolutions agreed by the Committee of Ministers.

It is therefore, in reality, a “joint venture” of two externally funded projects carried out by the team leaders of the working group, which aim at disseminating the results of such projects and to connect their outcome with the other ReNEUAL research projects and working groups. Considered as a whole, these projects may give rise to a “European Administrative Law Toolbox”, unveiling the deeper rationale of legal tools, considered necessary, or at least helpful, to ensure key democratic principles in states governed by the rule of law, such as the protection of individuals’ rights by the administration, transparency and the democratic legitimation of the administration and its actions.

The two projects are:

• The Common Core of European Administrative Law (CoCEAL) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme – Advanced Grant – Excellent Science (grant agreement No 694697) organized by Giacinto della Cananea and Mauro Bussani (for more information on CoCEAL, see www.coceal.eu and the recently published monograph 'The Common Core of European Administrative Laws' by Giacinto della Cananea)

• The development of pan-European general principles of good administration by the Council of Europe and their impact on the administrative law of its Member States funded by the German Research Foundation organized by Ulrich Stelkens (for more information on the project on pan-European general principles of good administration click here)

Team leaders: Giacinto della Cananea and Ulrich Stelkens

Affiliated SC members: Paul Craig, Joana Mendes

ReNEUAL working group 2.2: Digitalized Public Administration in the EU

This working group will focus on the impact of new technologies, and especially digitalized Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), on the way in which Public Administrations work and interact with one another.

By revisiting traditional administrative law concepts, and building on previous research activity and findings of WG4 of ReNEUAL 1.0 on Information Management, the research work will mainly focus on the following issues:

• Administrative procedure and the influence of ICT technologies on its functioning and its internal structure (This topic is being investigated as part of the INDIGO (Information in the EU’s Digitalized Governance) project, for more information see https://project-indigo.eu/ );
• Discretionary power and ICT technologies (machine learning, algorithmic decision-making, deep learning algorithms);
• Databases and interoperability in different domains of EU activity (cooperation in the Internal Market, Cooperation in the field of Police and Justice, Financial Market regulation);
• Public Service and ICT Technologies (e.g. Smart cities);
• Legal language, legal translation and ICT.

Team leaders: Diana-Urania Galetta, Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Jens-Peter Schneider

Affiliated SC members: Jean-Bernard Auby; Deirdre Curtin; Oriol Mir; Ulrich Stelkens; Jacques Ziller

ReNEUAL working group 2.3: International and transnational administrative law

Globalization has intertwined administrative legal orders, linking them in webs of administrative cooperation either territorially- or functionally-focused. Despite almost two decades of the most recent globalization wave, there are still no easy answers to solving conflicts of administrative norms or to define which law applies to functional regulatory regimes that appear to escape administrative legal controls. This working group focuses on the legal implications of administrative cooperation for the articulation of legal systems. Specifically, it examines the lacunae of legal regimes governing transboundary and functional cooperation and investigates which law applies when no legal system is an undisputed candidate. In doing so, it covers both horizontal interaction between legal orders (transboundary cooperation) and vertical interaction (regulatory cooperation).

Team leaders: Jean-Bernard Auby; Joana Mendes

Affiliated SC members: Deirdre Curtin; Herwig C.H. Hofmann

ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Procedure

ReNEUAL working groups have developed a set of model rules from 2009 until 2014. The ReNEUAL Model Rules 2014 are designed as a draft proposal for  binding legislation identifying - on the basis of comparative research - best practices in different specific policies of the EU, in order to reinforce general principles of EU law. For the 2014 Online version see:

• Foreword by the European Ombudsman → document

• ELI/ReNEUAL joint statement → document

• Introduction to the ReNEUAL Model Rules / Book I – General Provisions → document

• Book II – Administrative Rule-Making → document

• Book III – Single Case Decision-Making → document

• Book IV – Contracts → document

• Book V – Mutual Assistance → document

• Book VI – Administrative Information Management → document

• Compilation of the ReNEUAL Model Rules (Books I to VI) → document

In 2015, the ReNEUAL Steering Committee agreed on an updated English version of the Model Rules taking into account discussions following the translation of the 2014 Online version into various other European languages.

For the updated 2015 version [model rules only] see → document

The updated version of 2015 is the basis for the English print version of the Model Rules - including linguistically improved introductions and explanations. The English print version has been published containing an additional comparative chapter ('Administrative Procedure Acts: History, Features and Reception') in 2017 by Oxford University Press (OUP): → publisher's website

For other language versions based on the updated 2015 version see:

• French: La codification de la procédure administrative de l'Union européenne - Le modèle ReNEUAL
  → publisher's website

• German: ReNEUAL - Musterentwurf für ein EU-Verwaltungsverfahrensrecht
  → publisher's website

• Italian: Codice ReNEUAL del procedimento amministrativo dell'Unione Europea
  → publisher's website

• Polish: ReNEUAL Model kodeksu postępowania administracyjnego dla Unii Europejskiej
  → publisher's website
  → cover

• Romanian: Codul reneual de procedura administrativa a Uniunii Europene
  → publisher's website
  → cover

• Spanish: Código ReNEUAL de procedimiento administrativo de la Unión Europea
  → document

• Japanese: 山本隆司「EU行政手続法模範草案の分析」行政法研究27号43-100頁 （2018年）

  → document

On the basis of an agreement signed in July 2012, ReNEUAL has cooperated on this project with the European Law Institute (ELI). → For further information

ReNEUAL supports the European Parliament's initiative for a Law of Administrative Procedure of the European Union.
For further information, please consult:

• The European Parliament's resolution of 9th June 2016 with a draft regulation for an open, efficient and independent European Union administration and
  • the JURI committee's explanatory memorandum
  • the preparatory academic study for the JURI committee by Galetta/Hofmann/Mir/Ziller "Context and Legal Elements of a Proposal for a Regulation on the Administrative Procedure of the European Union's Institutions, Bodies, Offices and Agencies"
  • the preparatory academic study for the JURI committee by Galetta/Hofmann/Mir/Ziller "General Principles of EU Administrative Procedural Law (European Parliament)"

• The European Parliament's Resolution adopted on 15^th January 2013 with recommendations to the Commission on a Law of Administrative Procedure of the European Union and
  
  • its impact assessment report
  • the working document of the European Parliament's Working Group on EU Administrative Law

• Findings and results of the European Parliament's public consultation on EU Administrative Law

See also the following documents:

• Jens-Peter Schneider, Klaus Rennert, Nikolaus Marsch (eds.) ReNEUAL-Musterentwurf für ein EU-Verwaltungsverfahrensrecht - Tagungsband. Dokumentation der Fachtagung im Bundesverwaltungsgericht vom 5. und 6. November 2015, C.H. Beck Verlag, München 2016 → publisher's website

• Diana-Urania Galetta, Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Oriol Mir Puigpelat, Jacques Ziller: Context and legal elements of a proposal for a Regulation on the administrative procedure of the  European Union's institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (RIDPC 2016/1) → document

• Diana-Urania Galetta, Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Oriol Mir Puigpelat, Jacques Ziller: The General Principals of EU Administrative Procedural Law. An In-Depth Analysis (RIDPC 2015/5) → document

• Edoardo Chiti, Adelante, con juicio: la prospettiva di una codificazione dei procedimento europeo (Giornale di diritto amministrativo 7/2014) → document

• Jacques Ziller, Alternatives in Drafting an EU Administrative Procedure Law (November 2011) → document

• Oriol Mir Puigpelat, Arguments in favour of a general codification of the procedure applicable to EU administration (March 2011) → document

• Jacques Ziller, Is a law of administrative procedure for the Union institutions necessary? Introductory remarks and prospects (March 2011) → document

• Jacques Ziller, Towards Restatements and Best Practice Guidelines on EU Administrative Procedural Law. Note to the European Parliament´s Committee on Legal Affairs – Working Group on EU Administrative Law (October 2010) → document

• ReNEUAL Steering Committee, Towards Restatements and Best Practice Guidelines on EU Administrative Procedural Law (March 2010) → document

• George Bermann, A Restatement of European Administrative Law: Problems and Prospects (2009) → documents