Abstract
This paper is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of adoption of Act No. 71/1967 Coll., providing for administrative procedure (the Administrative Procedure Code), which was the fourth generation of the general regulation of the administrative procedure in Czechoslovakia. After a brief comparison of previous regulations issued in the form of a government decree, it attempts to characterize the circumstances of occurrence of this law and its benefits and to outline the problems that arose in its application after the change in social conditions at the turn of the 1980s and the 1990s.
The fate of the 1967 Code of Administrative Procedure was different after the extintion of Czechoslovakia. In the Czech Republic it was replaced by the new and more extensive Administrative Procedure Code, which came into force in early 2006, but in some details it was not able to be better than its predecessor.
In the Czech Republic, after substantial changes, it is still part of the relevant legal system.
