The principles of general administrative procedure

The paper analyses the principles of general administrative procedure, the justification and purpose of their regulation, and the way they influence administrative procedure and its subjects. Furthermore, the subject of the paper is the role of principles of the procedure of administrative law and their contribution to procedural regulations in general, along with a comparison between contemporary regulations and some previous laws on general administrative procedure in the Republic of Serbia. The emphasis is on those principles of general administrative procedure that have been newly introduced, but also on those that have been amended or supplemented in relation to previous legal solutions and the one that should be introduced into Serbian legislation. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the existing way of regulating the mentioned principles is adequate and whether it provides the basis for an appropriate management of administrative proceedings, as well as whether the novelties introduced by the current Law on General Administrative Procedure in terms of principles are necessary and justified. Moreover, the paper explores the relationship between certain principles.