Government Agencies in Poland – an Example of Agencification of Public Administration. Comparative Legal Analysis of Selected Models of Agencies in European Countries
Paulina Bieś-Srokosz
Faculty of Law and Economics, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7353-3460
Abstract
"Agencification" is a term proposed to define the process of creating government agencies, which started in the early 1990s. According to the author, this term should be incorporated into the nomenclature of Polish administrative law, mainly due to the fact that administrative law scholars from other countries have been using it in the same sense as in this article for more than ten years. Therefore, the paper briefly discusses the models of agencies functioning in the legal systems of some European countries where they play an important role.
Keywords:
agencification, government agencies, model of agency, German agencies, French agencies/autonomous entities, British agenciesReferences
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Bieś-Srokosz, P. (2019). Government Agencies in Poland – an Example of Agencification of Public Administration. Comparative Legal Analysis of Selected Models of Agencies in European Countries. Review of European and Comparative Law, 39(4), 145–167. https://doi.org/10.31743/recl.4806
Paulina Bieś-Srokosz
paulinabiessrokosz@interia.pl
Faculty of Law and Economics, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7353-3460
Faculty of Law and Economics, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7353-3460
