Správní žaloby nejvyššího státního zástupce – ohlédnutí po více než dvaceti letech
Administrative Actions of the Prosecutor General – a Retrospective after more than Twenty Years

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the application practice of the Prosecutor General in the area of his special standing under Section 66(2) of the Administrative Procedure Code and related case law of administrative courts. The analysis presents an overall view of individual cases and their comprehensive summary. Among other things, it subsequently shows that, with the exception of the area of construction and environmental law, there are significant differences in both the number and the areas of actions brought to protect the public interest from year to year. The results of the research show that the vast majority of these actions are aimed at quashing potentially illegal decisions in the areas of traffic offences, nostrification of foreign titles and photovoltaic plant licensing – very narrow areas of administrative law in which the Prosecutor General has intervened to overturn illegal decisions issued in a large number of similar cases. The assessment of the merits of these actions has undergone a significant development over the period of the existence of this provision of the Administrative Procedure Code, caused not by a change in the statutory regulation, but by the case law of the administrative courts and subsequently the Constitutional Court. The author of the article criticizes these conclusions. However, the forthcoming amendment to the Administrative Procedure Code envisages a variant of the amendment to the said provision, which would probably overcome the referred non-conceptual effects of this case law and would allow the courts to review the active legal standing of the Prosecutor General more widely.

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