Remedies are legal tools established by law to ensure that parties to an administrative procedure can challenge unlawful administrative acts. The Slovenian General Administrative Procedure Act provides for one ordinary remedy - an appeal - and five extraordinary remedies. The aim of the survey is to establish the relationship between the filing of administrative appeals at the level of administrative units and to compare the results with other public authorities. The statistical method carried out on the accounts of the work of the public administration bodies shows that 70% of complaints are lodged at the level of the administrative units and 80% of complaints at the level of the selected public administration bodies, representing about three quarters of the appeals lodged.
Absolute essential procedural errors are listed in Article 237(2) of the ZUP and constitute serious infringements affecting the correctness and legality of decisions. The analysis of the case-law on absolute fundamental procedural errors using inductive and descriptive methods and the analysis of the scientific literature concludes that in 60% of all decisions and orders analysed, Article 237(2)(7) of the Civil Procedure Code is the most frequently infringed provision.
The analysis of remedies and absolute fundamental procedural errors may have a positive impact on the work of civil servants, who are confronted with cases of misconduct and, consequently, cases of complaints on a daily basis. As a result, they will be more attentive to these infringements and will try hard to rectify them. The work also has a positive impact on the parties involved in the administrative procedure, as they will also be able to pay more attention to the infringements that occur more frequently.
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