Extraterritorial effects of territorial self-government decisions

Abstract

As a result of expanding globalisation, states in various cases, in order to protect different interests and by reference to different principles, increasingly abandon rigid adherence to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other States in the area of prescriptive jurisdiction and reciprocally accept the extension of the effects of individual legal acts issued by another State on their territory. In the conditions of the European Union, this acceptance concerns civil, criminal and administrative matters. It is individual administrative acts that are of particular interest from the point of view of the possibility of acquiring extraterritorial effects, because for several of tchem no specific recognition procedure is required. The aim of this paper is to characterize administrative acts with extraterritorial effects. Then to define the basic regimes for recognition and enforcement of administrative acts and to present examples of their application in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. Lastly to identify examples of administrative acts of local self-government authorities with extraterritorial effects and, following the examples thus identified, to present the regimes of their recognition and enforcement.