LAS DIRECTRICES DE TÉCNICA NORMATIVA

Authors

  • FERNANDO SANTAOLALLA LÓPEZ

Keywords:

legislative drafting, guidelines, legislation, clarity of norms.

Abstract

This study comments the new guidelines of legislative drafting of 2005 that have come to replace the previous ones of 1991. The purpose is to improve the technical quality of the legal provisions, paying attention to a better configuration and systematic of the norms. The new guidelines are much more numerous, as a consequence of approaching aspects before ignored. The author analyzes briefly most of the guidelines, exposing their achievements and errors. In general terms, he concludes that the new directives are correct as far as they are innovative. On the contrary, they tend to be defective as they have been restricted to endorse the existing practice, in many aspects incorrect.

Published

2008-04-09

Issue

Section

STUDIES