Administrative Cooperation in the European Space

In virtually all European Union (EU) policy fields, ranging from marketing authorisations to the management of EU funds to the area of Freedom, Security and Justice, banking supervision, data protection, or administrative cooperation in the field of taxation or environmental and climate policies, there is increasing recourse to cooperative modes of implementation of EU law, involving national and EU authorities. Due to the EU’s limited competence in this field, there is no common legal framework defined at the European level to regulate these cooperative structures; rather, there exists a series of mechanisms and procedures defined by secondary law depending on the subject matters involved.

This edited book aims to examine the contours of administrative cooperation within the European administrative space, based on an innovative approach to address this theme —a sectoral approach. European scholars, gathered within the framework of the Transnational Administrative Law Network, have analyzed fourteen distinct areas that fall within a variety of European Union competences, focusing on the actors, mechanisms, and procedures of administrative cooperation, the acts resulting from cooperation, and the challenges of judicial review.