This master's thesis is devoted to the administrative law institution of public authority, which allows the delegation of state administration tasks to non-state entities. It presents the positive legal regulation of the institution, the standpoints of legal theory, selected case-law of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia and the case-law of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia on the scope of the official authority of the Bar Association of Slovenia. Special attention is paid to the procedures for granting official authority and to the description of the criteria serving as a basis for the selection. Following the analysis of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-47/08 (European Commission v. Kingdom of Belgium), in which the Court assessed the nature of the activities of notaries, I demonstrate how the Court interprets the notion of "activities connected with the exercise of official authority", and conclude that the Court does not classify certain tasks, which, in the Slovenian legal order, constitute the exercise of public authority, as activities connected with the exercise of official authority. The final chapter describes the forms of supervision of entities exercising official authority and underlines the importance of establishing effective control mechanisms over the activities of such entities.
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