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Main Function and Works

Administrative laws are main laws that govern the activities of administration of government agencies, such as land, environment, and welfare, and have significant impact on the public and businesses. GENERAL ACT ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION was enacted to lay down principles and standards for law enforcement.

Main contents of the GENERAL ACT ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  • Codification of legal principles of administration
    • Codification of principles of administration such as the principle of protection of trust, the principle of proportionality, and the principle of prohibition against Unfair Combine, which play an important role in protecting the rights of the people.

  • Strengthening the facilitating active administration
    • Regulations on Public Officials ‘Implementation of Proactive Administration’ to Improve Unreasonable Regulations

    • Regulations that do not fit the reality or are unreasonable should be checked and maintained from time to time.

  • Presenting principles and standards of legislation and law enforcement
    • Clarification of the effective time of the report (if a statute expressly provides that such report requires acceptance, the administrative agency must accept it before it takes effect)

    • Suggest criteria for whether the old law or the new law applies when amending laws and regulations

  • Systematization of common systems and simplification of procedures under individual laws
    • The systems scattered in individual laws, such as Deemed Authorization or Permission and Penalty Surcharges, are uniformly and systematically regulated, and complex procedures are simplified from the point of view of the public.

Expetation effect

  • Perfecting the Rule of Law in Administration and Strengthening the Protection of People's Rights
    • Perfecting the rule of law in Administration by clearly defining the principles and standards of law enforcement, and allowing the public to easily predict law enforcement and protect their rights.

  • Implementation of active administration
    • By declaring the obligation of the administration to actively promote the government, the perception and behavior of the public service society are changed.

  • Promotion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Regulatory Innovation
    • Establish the principle of regulation centered on the benefit of the people, simplify the Deemed Authorization or Permission, and immediately apply the effect of deregulation.

  • Streamlining the Administrative Law System
    • Systematize a quasi-common system to improve the uniformity and efficiency of administrative law, and fundamentally resolve the confusion of the public and front-line officials.