Verwaltungskooperation in der Europäischen Union

During the past years, numerous forms of cooperation among the administrations of the EU member states and the European Commission have developed. The normative basis for this is the European law which regulates administrative cooperation. Gernot Sydow reveals those basic structures in this law which have had a formative influence on the system. In order to do so, he refers to the product approval law. As an instrument for devising a system of administrative law, he outlines four cooperation and enforcement models which are the point of reference for a detailed analysis of selected cooperation procedures. Using an administrative approach, the author explains the institutional, staff and information requirements for a European administrative cooperation. He defines the normative demands made on the authorization of administrative structures of cooperation, focusing in particular on the implementation of fundamental procedural rights in multistage cooperation procedures.