Principle of responsibility of public administration in the context of digitalisation

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Author: Anna Vasilyeva

DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2024-4-61-84

Keywords: public tort law; digitalisation; public administration; automated administrative act; state information systems; algorithms in law

Abstract

The principle of responsibility in the Soviet and post-Soviet administrative law is primarily considered from the perspective of responsibility of a citizen to the state, rather than the responsibility of the state to a citizen. The doctrine of Russian administrative law is still based on the approach of sufficiency of restoration of formal (objective) legality through the cancellation of an unlawful administrative act by an administrative body or its invalidation by a court decision. However, for the valid restoration of rights in the sphere of public administration it is not enough to recognize such an act as illegal, it is necessary to provide valid compensation to the citizen for the harm caused by the unlawful act. Establishment in article 53 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 of the right of everyone to compensation by the state for damage caused by illegal actions (or inaction) of public authorities or officials created a constitutional basis for the development of the principle of property responsibility of public entities as a general principle of modern administrative law. This requires overcoming the dominant civilistic approach. The core of the principle is an unlawful administrative act. Consequently, the implementation of this principle directly depends on the level of development of administrative law, rather than civil law doctrines, particularly the doctrine of subjects carrying out public administration, legal forms of public administration, including the doctrine of invalidity of administrative acts. Digitalisation of public administration has a significant impact both on the organisational and legal forms of public administration and on the classical tools of public administration. Public administration, implementing functions with the use of information technologies, is characterised by a significant diversity of actors, each of which implements part of a single public function. The distributed implementation of public administration functions should not lead to the dilution or complete elimination of the property responsibility of public entities. Digital management products (algorithms, information systems, automated administrative acts) should be treated on par with classical forms of public administration (normative acts, administrative acts), which will allow applying the principle of responsibility when digital technologies are being used in public administration. Thus, the impact of digitalisation on public administration entails the need to adapt public tort law.

About the author: Anna Vasilyeva – Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) in Law, LL.M. (University of Passau), Associate Professor of the Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Citation: Vasilyeva A. (2024) Printsip otvetstvennosti publichnoy administratsii v usloviyakh tsifrovizatsii [Principle of responsibility of public administration in the context of digitalisation]. Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, vol.33, no.4, pp.61–84. (In Russian).

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