Basic Structures of Information Management in the European Administrative Union

Abstract:

The legal analysis of information management in European administrative procedures is still at an early stage. Comparative legal analyses of standard problems of national as well as EU administrative law are needed. Examples are the allocation of responsibilities between public authorities and private parties for the establishing of facts in (investigatory or adversarial) administrative procedures. Equally important are problems of information management which transcends vertical or horizontal boundaries in the European multi-level and transnational administrative space. Therefore, more classic methods of information sharing (mutual assistance) as well as more integrated European information networks (shared databases) should attract the attention of scholars of European administrative law.