Il diritto ad una buona amministrazione nei procedimenti amministrativi oggi (anche alla luce delle discussioni sull’ambito di applicazione dell’art. 41 della Carta dei diritti UE)

Abstract: Aim of the paper is, first of all, to identify (albeit briefly) the essential content of the guarantees contained in Art. 41 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the EU Fundamental Rights Charta in the light of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice before and after its adoption. Secondly, the paper focuses on the debated (and complex) question of its scope of application; and, to do this, both the jurisprudence of the Luxembourg’s judges of the national administrative judges are taken into account. The aim is to try and identify the status quo to this regard, in order also to try and imagine possible future evolutions of the right to a good administration. With a final question, tough: will the 21st century ever really become “the century of good administration”, as the first European mediator, Jacob Söderman, imagined (and wished for)?