The Council of State is the supreme administrative court of Greece, called the Supreme Administrative Court in the English text of the Constitution. Its jurisdiction rests mainly on annulling enforceable acts of administrative authorities for excess of power or violation of the law, reversing final judgments of the ordinary administrative courts, trying substantive administrative disputes and elaborating decrees of a general regulatory nature. The Public Administration is bound to comply with its decisions. Its president serves a tenure of at most four years and, together with the presidents of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court and the Court of Audit, may be entrusted with forming a caretaker cabinet. Katerina Sakellaropoulou was its first woman president.
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Founding Year Jurisdiction ScopeAnnulment of administrative acts for excess of power or violation of law, review of final judgments of administrative courts, and general regulatory decrees 1 Jurisdiction Scope
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Council of State, 47-49, Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου, Académie, 1st District of Athens, Athènes, Municipality of Athens, Regional Unit of Central Athens, Attique, 106 79, Grèce
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She was the first woman to serve as the president of the Council of State, the country’s top administrative court.
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1. Greece 2019 Constitution, Constitute Project
Article 95, jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of the Supreme Administrative Court pertains mainly to:
Article 95, annulment of administrative acts
The annulment upon petition of enforceable acts of the administrative authorities for excess of power or violation of the law.
Article 95, compliance with decisions
The Public Administration shall be bound to comply with judicial decisions.
Judicial power chapter, tenure of the presidents
The tenure of the President of the Supreme Administrative Court, of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court and of the Court of Audit
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History, the Council of State of annulment that began to work in 1929
In the end, however, it did not work until 1929. The Council of State's power of annulment had no effect on the competence of the civil courts with regard to administrative disputes of «full jurisdiction».
Member page, address of the Council of State
Council of State, 47-49, Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου, Académie, 1st District of Athens, Athènes, Municipality of Athens, Regional Unit of Central Athens, Attique, 106 79, Grèce
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She was the first woman to serve as the president of the Council of State, the country’s top administrative court.
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civil legal system based on Roman law
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