Expenses of administrative proceedings

Abstract

For the new Law on General Administrative Procedure of 2016, despite many novelties , it can not be said that it brought substantial changes in the legal regime of the costs of administrative proceedings, especially not in aspect of improving the legal position of the parties.  Although there are certain novelties that can be said to constitute positive solutions, most of the legal changes are not of particular importance for legal position of a parties in the administrative procedure. Particularly valuable criterion is the new provision on the concept of procedural costs, which contributed, without improving the legal regime of procedural costs, to hide the fact that the right of a party to the costs of legal representation in administrative proceedings still depends exclusively on the free assessment of their necessity, and justification by the official conducting the proceedings.