Providing of public services in the field of biomedicine

Abstract

The paper analyzes one of the new notions in Serbian administrative law, created by the Law on General Administrative Procedure - providing of public services. In accordance with this Law, the providing of public services should fall within the scope of the administrative procedure and should constitute one of the forms of 'administrative proceedings'. Substantially, however, the provision of public services is not an 'administrative proceeding'. The real reason for regulating these activities by the Law on General Administrative Procedure is to provide legal protection to users of public services. Taking the health services in the field of biomedicine as an example, we can see that the legislator in this way only duplicates and complicates the legal protection of public services users, unnecessarily, since it is already regulated by special regulations.

Keywords

• administrative procedure
• providing of public services
• objection
• patients' rights protection counselor
• biomedicine