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have become interested in transboundary effects of administrative decision making
since the 1990s. In describing their subject of interest some of them prefer the term
“transnational” decision making (
Angelos Gerontas,
25
Giacinto Della Cananea,
26
Marie Gautier
27
), while other scholars use the term „extraterritorial“ decision
making (
Hervé Ascensio,
28
Stefano Battini,
29
Lydia Lebon
30
). Most recently, both terms
have become the subject of criticism due to their relative ambiguity. Therefore,
the term “transterritorial” administrative decision making is preferred by other
authors (
Hertwig Hofman
31
). This term will be used also in this article.
4. In the 4
th
volume of his monumental study on “International Administrative
Law” the visionary
Karl Neumeyer
pointed out three prospective features of
transboundary (transterritorial) administrative decision making: (1) administrative
decision making by international administrative unions (vertical transterritorial
decision making), (2) transterritorial decision making of national administrative
authorities (horizontal transterritorial decision making) and (3) administrative
decision making of national administrative authorities as result of coordinated
transterritorial proceedings. At the time that
Karl Neumeyer
identified these three
prospective features of transterritorial decision making, he could provide only a very
few practical examples for each of them. However, taking the restored interest in
“international administrative law” into consideration, this article will point out
current challenges arising from these features.
1.
5. Delegating of administrative powers to international organisations (international
administrative unions) represents a phenomenon which has attracted the attention
of the science of administrative law since the era of the
“belle epoque”
. A number
of contemporary authors reflected the establishment of a number of these unions
(
European Commission of the Danube
in 1856,
International Telegraph Union
in 1865,
25
GERONTAS, A.
Deterritorialization in Administrative Law: Exploring Transnational Administrative
Decisions
, Columbia Journal of European Law, 2013, pp. 423
et seq.
26
DELLA CANANEA, G
. Transnational public law in Europe
:
beyond the lex alius loci
, in: Maduro, M.,
Tuori, K., Sankari, S.
(ed.)
Transnational Law
, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014, pp. 321
et seq.
27
GAUTIER, M.
Acte administratif transnational et droit communautaire
, in: Auby, J., Dutheil de la
Rochere, J. (eds.)
Droit administratif européen
, Ed. Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007, pp. 1069
et seq
.
28
ASCENSIO, H.
Extraterritoriality as an instrument
, Sorbonne Law School, University of Paris 1, 2010,
pp. 27
et seq
.
29
BATTINI, S.
Extraterritoriality
:
an Unexceptional Exception
, in: Zwart, G., Auby, J., Morison, J.
(eds.)
Values in Global Administrative Law
, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2011, pp. 65
et seq
.
30
LEBON, L.
La territorialité et ľ Union européenne. Approches de droit public
, Ed. Bruylant, Bruxelles,
2015, pp. 45
et seq
.
31
HOFMANN, H.
Dealing with Trans-Territorial Executive Rule Making
, Missouri Law Review, 2013,
pp. 424
et seq.