КОНТРОЛА УСТАВНОСТИ ЗАКОНА У ФИНСКОЈ
THE CONTROL OF CONSTITUTIONALITY OF LAWS IN FINLAND

Summary/Abstract: As a small, liberal-democratic country, Finland has a relatively long constitutional history of Scandinavian-Germain background. In spite of normative power admitted to the Constitution (1919) there is no judicial review of constitutionality of laws in Finland. Only Parliament controls the constitutionality of laws in a quasi-judicial review of constitutionality. In the reviewing procedure the decisive position is in fact held by the Constitutional Committee of Parlament. The Committee prepares bills concerning the constitution and gives opinions regarding the constitutionality of. laws. If the Committee finds that a stipulation of a bill is contrary to the Constitution it can, as a possible alternative, be passed only in a qualified legislative procedure. In this way the institute of indirect altering of the Constitution is inaugurated, as a specific feature of tire way the constitutionality of laws is controled by Parliament and its Constitutional Committee in Finland.

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