RESTORATÍVNE PRVKY V SPRÁVNOM TRESTANÍ

The Slovak legal regulation of administrative punishment is in many respects interspersed. The means of applying elements of restorative justice are no exception. The normative diction of the law on misdemeanors, or even another regulation, hardly thinks about them. In the scientific literature to date, there have been several inspiring considerations about the possibilities of modifying this state within the processes of creating the future sanction law of public administration. However, it is not possible to limit the formulation of impulses in the de lege ferenda level, especially in the legal-application context. Administrative authorities apply the applicable law in the process of hearing administrative offenses. Therefore, attention should be paid to methods of strengthening the restorative element in administrative punishment in the light of an effective normative platform. The examination of these aspects is the subject of a translated article. The author focuses on whether the categories of the general theory of law (interpretation, the legal imperative of analogy, subsidiarity of legislation) can create space for strengthening the restorative element in administrative punishment. He examines the above, especially in the light of the possibilities of concluding a settlement on a proper tort.