The Organic Administrative Code

An Unpostponable Legal Commitment

Abstract

The modern conception of the Public Administration conceives it as a service to the community. Thus, it demands, from the State, the articulation of a legal framework in administrative matters which is in accordance with the constitutional principles, and with the imperative need to improve the relationship between the administration and its administrated. In this sense, the Organic Administrative Code, which will enter into force on July 8, 2018, once the vacatio legis indicated in its final disposition will be fulfilled, is a coherent and innovative alternative with such needs.

The Code develops widely the aphorisms that govern the activity of public Administration, indicated in article 227 of the Constitution, and other principles that correspond to the current Administrative Law. This configuration of the law bases has allowed to establish a common administrative procedure, to which the entities and organisms that make up the public sector and public companies are subject, has reduced the current regulatory dispersion, has simultaneously settled the discussion between the term and the term in the field, and has promoted important advances whose development is included in the following article. The approval of this new legal body has been a historical fact for Ecuador.