Administrative Contracts in Croatian Legislation with Public Procurement Review

Upravni ugovori u hrvatskom zakonodavstvu predstavljaju novinu uvedenu Zakonom o općem upravnom postupku 2010. godine, novinu koja se nije pokazala uspješnom u praksi. Tim se zakonom posebno reguliraju brojna pitanja upravnih ugovora, kao što su uvjeti za njegovo sklapanje i njihov predmet, njihova ništetnosti, izmjena, raskid, te na kraju regulira i upravnu zaštitu stranaka kad javnopravno tijelo ne ispunjava svoje ugovorne obveze. Kontrola nad sklapanjem upravnih ugovora neophodna je i vrlo značajna zbog nekoliko razloga. Prvo, javnopravna tijela koja ih sklapaju čine to izvršavajući svoje javne ovlasti, što nedvojbeno podliježe kontroli zakonitosti; drugo, u sklapanju upravnih ugovora raspolaže se javnim sredstvima što je također neophodno kontrolirati; treće, sklapanjem upravnih ugovora često se zadire u korištenje javnih dobara.Administrative contracts in Croatian legislation represent a novelty introduced into the General Administration Procedure Act in 2010., a novelty which has not proved to be successful in practice. It in particular regulates numerous issues over administrative contracts such as conditions of formation and their subject, their futility, amendments, discharge and finally administrative protection for parties when public legal bodies do not fulfil their contractual obligations. Control over administrative contract formation is inevitable and is very significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, public legal bodies which form them do so by exercising their own public powers which are without doubt subject to legality control; secondly, in forming administrative contracts, public funds are used which must be controlled; thirdly, forming administrative contracts often touches on using public goods