Article 4. General definitions

The following general definitions are applied in this Law:

interested person — a person to whom the administrative act or administrative action being adopted is addressed, as well as whose rights and legitimate interests are affected or may be affected by the administrative act or administrative action;

administrative proceedings — the process of consideration of an administrative case, the adoption of an administrative act, its revision on an administrative complaint, as well as the execution of an administrative act, regulated by an administrative procedure;

administrative discretion (discretionary authority) — the right of an administrative body to apply at its own discretion one of the measures allowed under the law or to refrain from applying the appropriate measure based on its own assessment of the legality and expediency;

administrative bodies — bodies endowed with administrative and managerial competence in the field of administrative and legal activities, including state administration bodies, local executive authorities, citizensʼ self-government bodies, as well as other organizations and specially formed commissions authorized to carry out this activity;

administrative procedure — procedural rules governing the administrative and legal activities of administrative bodies;

administrative actions — legally significant actions (inaction) of an administrative body in relation to individuals and legal entities, committed in the field of administrative and legal activities, which are not administrative or procedural acts;

administrative act — a measure of influence of an administrative body aimed at creating, changing or terminating public legal relations and generating certain legal consequences for individual individuals or legal entities or a group of individuals distinguished by certain individual characteristics;

administrative and legal activity — administrative activity that has an impact on individual individuals or legal entities or a group of individuals identified according to certain individual characteristics;

procedural act — an act adopted by an administrative body in the course of administrative proceedings, by which an administrative case is not resolved on the merits.