Soft Law Instruments and their Use in Slovenian Local Self-Government
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4335/13.3.681-696(2015)Keywords:
municipality, soft law, hard law, EU law, general municipal acts, court, constitution, legally binding effectAbstract
Article deals with possible use of soft law instruments in the Slovenian local self-government law. Though soft law is typically defined as non-legally binding law, it can have practical and indirect legal effects. Article reveals that soft law instruments could acquire at least indirect legal effect in Slovenian law with courts’ intervention under Article 14 of the Slovenian Constitution according to the principle of equal treatment. Since soft law instruments have an impact on the behaviour of the actors to whom they are addressed and since they should be followed by the adopting authority, it seems that the legal basis for their adoption should exist. Therefore, article explores and analyses the existence of the legal basis for adoption of such type of instrument in Slovenian local-self-government law as well.
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2015-07-31
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