Abstract

Administrative coordination is crucial for the quality of the administration, especially in today’s complex society. This essay examines the evolution of the provisions regulating coordination between public administrations in the law on administrative procedure. After examining the amphibious nature of these provisions, which are caught between administrative coordination and procedural simplification, the author discusses their implementation and the numerous simplification-oriented reforms that have affected them. After highlighting the characteristic features of these reforms, the author outlines their impact on the administrative coordination model, pointing out the current dysfunctions and proposing some guidelines that should guide future actions on the administrative coordination in order to reconcile the simplification with the management of complexity.