Summary

When talking about the factors of modern state administration we cannot do without the European perspective. Accordingly, from a legal point of view it is vital to analyse the Europeanisation of the national legal order. This process is comprehensive in nature, concerning not only individual areas of law (such as competition law, consumer protection law, environmental law), but the entire legal order (civil law, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law). Europeanisation of national legal order includes, additionally, all dimensions of the law: it is aimed at legislative drafting and implementation of law, concerns legislation and administration and justice, challenges the content and methods of law, law as an instrument and law as an independent category (on contrary to politics) have been involved, different rationalities in legal understandings collide.

The article focuses on the general part of administrative law and administrative procedure law and administrative court procedure law. In these legal areas it is possible to prove the existence of remarkable Europeanisation patterns and show the significant internal rationalities of European Union law. Focussing on these areas also serves the purpose of limiting the material and simplifying its comprehension, since the specific nature of the special part of administrative law is off the radar.