TFL Vsebine / Zbornik znanstvenih razprav

Upravni postopek je kot postopek, po katerem odločajo upravni organi o pravicah, obveznostih in pravnih koristih posameznika, namenjen izvrševanju zakonov in drugih predpisov, ki urejajo določeno upravno področje. Pri tem pa se neizogibno v teoriji in praksi kot vselej aktualno pojavi vprašanje uporabe prava pri odločanju organov glede na časovno veljavo posameznega predpisa, torej kateri predpis uporabi organ pri odločanju na prvi stopnji ter kateri v okviru pritožbenega postopka, če so se po izdaji odločbe prve stopnje relevantne pravne norme spremenile. Za odgovor se je treba ozreti po nekaterih temeljnih ustavnih načelih, predvsem po načelu pravne države in drugih temeljnih pravnih načelih, ki jih varuje Ustava Republike Slovenije: načelo zaupanja v pravo, načelo enakosti pred zakonom, pravica do pravnega sredstva, vezanosti uprave na ustavo in zakon ter prepoved povratne veljave pravnih aktov.

The decision-making authorities of the State use administrative procedure when they decide about rights and obligations of individuals, based on administrative law that regulates a certain area of public interest. Theory and practice can therefore not avoid the always relevant question of the application of material law regarding its temporal validity, in other words: which law shall be used by the administrative body in first-level decision-making and which by the appeal authority, if after the first-level administrative act has been issued the appropriate legal norms have been changed and/or repealed. To resolve this issue the article focuses on the principle of the rule of law and other fundamental legal principles that are enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia: the protection of legitimate legal expectations, the principle of equality, right to an effective legal remedy, legality of administrative action and prohibition of retroactivity of legal norms.