The master's thesis deals with the topic of the general administrative procedure and
focuses on one of its institutions, i.e., the service of documents. The service of documents plays
an important part in the administrative procedure – a document is not issued until it has been
served. Not only is it important to serve the document but it has to be served correctly, in the
manner laid down by law. Only then will the rights of the parties to the administrative proceedings
be guaranteed.
The purpose of the master's thesis is to present the institution of the service of documents in an
administrative procedure, and to examine and highlight the most common dilemmas encountered when
serving documents in an administrative procedure in practice. For that purpose, I analysed the case
law of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Administrative Court of the Republic of
Slovenia in the 2016–2020 period. The results of the analysis show that most dilemmas arise when
serving documents by proxy and when specifying fictitious service.
Another purpose of the thesis is to examine the similarities and differences in the legal
regulation of the service of documents in the administrative procedure between Estonia and
Slovenia. I began by analysing the relevant material on this topic and summing up the essential
information needed to understand the serving regime in Estonia. Then, I compared the
obtained data with the serving regime in Slovenia by means of a comparative analysis. The results
of the comparison show that there are more similarities than differences between the
two countries; however, the Slovenian General Administrative Procedure Act (GAPA) lays down
the provisions of said institution more thoroughly.
The research results can be used to update and upgrade the existing sources in this field. They
could benefit all the participants in the administrative procedure, i.e., both the
authorities and the parties to the proceedings, as they inform the authorities about the dilemmas
arising in the case law on the institution of the service of documents, which they can then use to
better inform the parties to the proceedings about said institution and its elements.
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