Public administration's adaptation to COVID-19 pandemic - Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak experience

Horvat, Matej (author), Piątek, Wojciech (author), Potěšil, Lukáš (author), Rozsnyai, Krisztina F. (author)

The pandemic of the infectious disease Covid-19 affected everyday life including public administration. In order to proceed with its duties, public administration had to adapt to these new and unprecedented conditions. The main goal of the article is to assess how public administration bodies adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in terms of the principle of the speed of procedure in the sense of the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time. In order to achieve this goal, the article focuses on public administration's adaptation to the pandemic from the perspective of the Visegrad Group countries (V4). It analyses the digitalisation of public administration in relation to delivery, speed of procedure, usage of new technologies, as well as several other areas of public life affected by the pandemic. Specific examples from all V4 countries are analysed and compared in order to identify which approaches were taken by public administration, how they changed the way public administration carried out administrative procedures, and which values were decisive for these changes. Based on these examples, the article concludes that the approach taken by respective legislatures and public administrations in the V4 region complies with the law, but also presents several exceptions.

• Language: English
• Keywords: COVID-19, electronic communication, digitalisation of public administration, new technologies, principle of speed of the proceedings, public administration in V4 countries
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 133-158
• Numbering: Vol. 19, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-128551
• UDC: 35:616-036.22(437.3)(439)(438)(437.6)
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2021.1.06
• COBISS.SI-ID: 67685379

Note

Povzetek v slov. jeziku se nahaja na koncu revije, na str. 285-286.

• Publication date in RUL: 19.07.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Publisher: Fakulteta za upravo
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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• Licensing start date: 29.04.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prilagoditev javne uprave pandemiji covida-19 - izkušnje Češke, Madžarske, Poljske in Slovaške

Abstract

Pandemija nalezljive bolezni covid-19 je korenito posegla v vsakdanje življenje, vključno z javno upravo. Da bi lahko še naprej opravljala svoje naloge, se je morala javna uprava tem novim izjemnim razmeram posebej prilagoditi. Glavni cilj članka je oceniti, kako so se pandemiji covida-10 prilagodili javni organi, zlasti iz vidika načela hitrosti postopka v smislu pravice do poštenega sojenja v razumnem roku. S tem namenom se članek osredotoča na prilagajanje javne uprave pandemiji v okviru držav Višegrajske skupine (V4). Članek analizira digitalizacijo javne uprave iz vidika opravljanja storitev, hitrosti postopka, uporabe novih tehnologij in številnih drugih področij javnega življenja, ki jih je prizadela pandemija. Podana je primerjava konkretnih primerov iz vseh držav V4, da bi opredelili pristope, ki so jih uporabile tamkajšnje javne uprave, ter ugotovili, kako so ti spremenili način izvajanja upravnih postopkov v javni upravi in katere vrednote so bile odločilne za te spremembe. Na podlagi omenjenih primerov članek zaključuje, da je pristop posameznih zakonodajnih organov in javnih uprav v regiji V4 sicer skladen z zakonom, vendar vključuje precej izjem.

• Keywords: covid-19, elektronske komunikacije, digitalizacija javne uprave, nove tehnologije, načelo hitrosti postopka, javna uprava v državah V4