The allocation of limited authorizations in Spain: considerations from the analysis of three specific sectors

This contribution is intended to provide an overview of the Spanish regime of allocation of one of the main types of limited public rights: limited authorizations. With this target, it is examined the current legal regime of three specific sectors of administrative law, namely the rules on the allocation of gambling licenses, of entitlements for the use of radio frequencies as well as of greenhouse gas emission permits. It will be shown that despite their different object and the fact that only the two last areas have been subjected to European harmonization, the three analyzed sectors are crossed by some horizontal or structural common elements regarding the allocation of limited authorizations. The identification and analysis of such structural elements are of interest in terms of general administrative law in so far as they are traceable to abstract elements of a general system of allocation of any limited authorization

The legal relationship in the system of administrative Law

Este artículo constituye una versión preliminar de un estudio en curso de elaboración. Sus líneas iniciales fueron presentadas por la autora en el Seminario de Teoría y Método (STEM) celebrado en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela el 25 de mayo de 2018.En el presente estudio se examina el rol desempeñado por la teoría de la relación jurídicoadministrativa tanto en el Derecho administrativo vigente como en su tratamiento dogmático, y se mantiene la tesis de que la ciencia del Derecho administrativo español debe incorporar a la parte general de la disciplina una teoría renovada de la relación jurídico-administrativa, como herramienta dirigida a posibilitar un adecuado análisis del ordenamiento administrativo desde la perspectiva de sus sujetos. Se justifica que la renovación de esta parte del sistema de Derecho administrativo, decantando sus problemas regulatorios típicos de las relaciones jurídico-administrativas y desarrollando una tipología de sus concreciones más características, puede constituir un instrumento valioso para diseñar, interpretar, aplicar y explicar el Derecho administrativo de manera más adecuada a sus presupuestos europeos, constitucionales y sectoriales. Por último, se identifican algunos de los elementos estructurales y metodológicos centrales que deberían integrarse en una futura agenda de investigación destinada a acometer esta tarea de reconstrucción sistemática en el plano del Derecho administrativo generalThis paper explores the role performed by the theory of the legal relationship both in administrative law and in its theoretical treatment. It argues that Spanish administrative law scholars should incorporate a renewed theory on the legal relationship into the general part of the discipline, as a tool facilitating the analysis of administrative law from the perspective of its subjects. Identifying and developing a typology of the regulatory problems characteristic of legal relationships governed by administrative law can – so the argument goes–, be a useful source of criteria to design, interpret, enforce, and explain administrative law in full coherence with its European and constitutional foundations, as well as with its sector-based manifestations. Lastly, the paper isolates some of the central structural and methodological elements that should be included into a future research agenda aimed at renewing this part of the system of general administrative law