DREPTUL ADMINISTRATIV ȘI ACȚIUNEA ADMINISTRATIVĂ ÎN „ERA DIGITALĂ”

The transition to the „digital age” marks all areas, being impossible for the administrative action
and the administrative law to be placed outside this phenomenon.
In the context of the transformations regarding the progressive replacement of the unilateral
character of the administrative action with models based on dialogue and consensus, as well as the
transition from the representative democracy to the participative one, the generalization of the digital
dialogue between the administration and the citizens is a way to promote new, collaborative forms of
administrative action. These bring a more important involvement of the public in the elaboration of
the administrative decision, including by redefining the practices of public consultations, carried out
on more flexible, less rigid channels.
The challenge of digitalization concerns to the same extent also the administrative law, a
science that, under the pressure of this „tsunami”, is forced to undergo mutations in its foundations:
the administrative act and the drafting process