The principle of administrative decentralization through the creation of state companies

Abstract

The article examines the principle of decentralization through the creation of state companies and the possibility of they being instituted by states and municipalities. After that it goes into the main theories about the origin and functions of the state, specially the aspect of its administrative function. It looks into the structure of administration, direct and indirect, the definitions of the Executive Law n. 200/67, in the 5th. section, the principle of decentralization and its forms, decentralization through cooperation, decentralization through state companies. It analyses the types of state companies, the hesitation of doctrine concerning the existence of two types of state companies, exploiter of the economic activity and renderer of public services and the opinion of jurists on the theme. It ends with the state companies of states and municipalities and the privatization as a corrector of the abuses of decentralization.