Models of Legal Supervision over Local Self- Governments in Continental Europe (Excluding France)

Abstract

The European Charter on Local Self-Government declares the European standards of institutions and principles which should be considered by all Member States in the construction of their own systems in order to guarantee the rights of local and regional self-governments and their elected officials. For our topic Article 8 has priority, yet also the rules on the scope of local self-governance deserve to be analysed, since the intergovernmental expert committee elaborating the Charter treated it jointly with the nature of relationships between local and central bodies from the very beginning. Consequently, the Charter’s system of legal supervision cannot be understood without it. This paper examines the different models of the control over local self-governments established in some Member States of the European Union.