Kai kurios administracinių nuobaudų vykdymo problemos

Abstract

In Lithuania every year about a million people face the administrative responsibility – that means that administrative sanctions are applied to every third resident. Statistically, district courts alone have heard about 45 927 administrative sanction cases during the year 2002. Such a substantial amount of administrative sanction cases obliges to look more narrowly into the existing legal regulation related to the application and enforcement of administrative sanctions, as well as to the judicial practice in this area.
Seeking to reach the objectives of administrative responsibility, the administrative sanction applied should be properly enforced. That’s why the proper legal regulation of the enforcement of administrative sanctions is of paramount importance. Moreover, improper legal regulation in this area may result in the violation of rights and legal interest of third parties. Although the enforcement of administrative sanctions may be distinguished because of certain specific features in comparison with the execution of court decisions, in the legal literature of Lithuania not much of attention to this topic has been paid yet. This article aims to fill this gap dealing at least with some most problematic issues related to the enforcement of administrative sanctions.
The article consists of 3 sections. First section deals with the common issues of enforcement of administrative sanctions: describes the existing legal regulation, reveals some existing problems and proposes possible solutions. Second section deals with the peculiarities of enforcement of one of possible administrative sanctions - deprivation of special right. Third section deals with the peculiarities of execution of decision to fine a person.