Guidelines for the Application of the Immediate Control of Legality in the Context of States of Emergency
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This article is the product of research that addresses the regulatory analysis of the immediate control of legality of administrative acts of a general nature issued by territorial entities, within the framework of the state of emergency declared on the occasion of the COVID 19 pandemic, enshrined in the Article 136 of Law 1437 of 2011. After specifying the necessary concepts for a better understanding of the norm, a study was carried out of the acts submitted to legality control before the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca by the Municipalities of Bojacá, Chía, Fómeque and Soacha, during the State of exception of economic, social and ecological emergency declared through Legislative Decree 417 of 2020, effective from March 17 to April 15, 2020, which allowed establishing that in practice the immediate control of legality’s application presents difficulties, both at the territorial level and for the legal operator, making it necessary to formulate criteria that allow, municipal entities and judicial offices, its uniform application, in order to guarantee not only the satisfaction of the principles of effectiveness and efficiency, but also the correct, prompt administration of justice and legal certainty.
Legality Control, Exception, Pandemic, Criteria, Principlescontrol de legalidad, excepción, pandemia, criterios, principios
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