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In 1963 Mr Buch, Belgian State Councillor, has paid a visit
to the Italian Council of State. It is probably during a conversation
with President Bozzi that the idea occurred to organize a meeting
with some delegates of the Italian and Belgian Councils of State.
The idea gained ground and materialized when both institutions
met in Brussels on 7th, 8th and 9th December 1964. The four following
themes were examined on that occasion:
- "La participation du Conseil d'Etat à l'élaboration des lois
et des arrêtés" (The participation of the Council of State in
the drawing up of laws and decrees)
- "La procédure d'élaboration des actes des autorités administratives"
(The drawing up process of administrative acts)
- "Le recours pour excès de pouvoir et la compétence des tribunaux
de l'ordre judiciaire" (The application on the grounds of action
ultra vires and the competence of the judicial courts)
- "L'intérêt et le droit en tant que critères de la répartition
des compétences juridictionnelles" (The interest and the law
as criteria for the sharing out of jurisdictions).
The Council of State of Italy also initiated bilateral meetings
with the four other corresponding jurisdictions from the countries
that belonged to the "Common Market", as it was then called.
Considering the importance of these meetings, the Council of State
of Italy decided to organize a colloquium of the supreme administrative
courts of the six member states of the Common Market.
This colloquium took place in Rome on 4, 5 and 6 March 1968.
The topics were: the consultative functions of the Councils of
State and the drawing up process of administrative acts.
The participating delegations noted in the conclusions of the
colloquium that there was a very clear convergence between the
decisions of the administrative courts in the six E.E.C. countries.
They consequently expressed the wish to go on with organizing
such colloquiums.
This wish came true and the colloquium of Rome was the first one
of the 21 colloquia that have been organized every two years
until now.
After each enlargement of the European Communities, the jurisdictions
of the new member states attended the colloquiums. The Court of
Justice of the European Communities too joined in.
During the 16th colloquium that has been held in Stockholm from
14 to 17 June 1998, it has been decided to create an association
of the Councils of State and the Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions
of the member states of the European Union.
The statutes of the new association have been adopted during the
17th colloquium held in Vienna from 8 to 10 May 2000.
At the General Assembly on 15 June 2004, the relevant institutions
from the 10 new EU Member States became members of the Association.
The new members are:
- the Supreme Court of Cyprus;
- the Supreme Court of Estonia;
- the Supreme Court of Hungary;
- the Supreme Court of Latvia;
- the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania;
- the Court of Appeal of Malta;
- the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland;
- the Supreme Court of Slovakia;
- the Supreme Court of Slovenia;
- the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic.
During the General Assembly that has been held on the 6th of June 2005, the Council of State of Turkey has been admitted as observer of the Association.
The General Assembly that has been held on the 29th of May 2006, admitted as observers of the association:
- the Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria
- the Administrative Court of Croatia,
- the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Legislative Council of Romania
The Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria and the High Court of Cassation and Justice and
the Legislative Council of Romania became members of the Association on 1 January 2007. |
