「행정기본법」에 따른 자기완결적 신고와 수리를 요하는 신고의 재검토

‘A report requiring acceptance’ emerged as a new type of regulation to relax regulation, and it is positioned between permission and a report. Both academia and courts set a report requiring acceptance from a self-satisfying report(a report as an original meaning) and legal theories were sharply opposed regarding the distinction between them. On 23 March 2021 was enacted ‘General Act on Public Administration’(hereinafter, ‘General Act’), which stipulates the principles of enforcement and basic matters regarding administrative legislation. Article 34 of the General Act reads that ‘a report requiring acceptance’ is the one in a case where a statute expressly provides that such report requires acceptance excluding cases where acceptance is provided as an internal affairs process of an administrative agency. The purpose of the article is to have the individual act specify the need for acceptance in the case of a report that requires acceptance in consideration of the substantive nature of the reports stipulated in various ways in different acts. As the purpose of the article is premised on clearly defining the nature of the report under an act, this paper reviews the criteria to distinguish reports requiring acceptance from self-satisfying reports viet interpretation theories, on the one hand, and discusses the legislative standards to set reports requiring acceptance apart from self-satisfying reports in the light of the substance and nature of reports requiring acceptance in each act, on the other hand. Clear-cut interpretation standards is required to reason whether an act clearly states the need of acceptance of a report. This paper suggests a way to provide phrases such as ‘acceptance is in need’, ‘... is the report that requires acceptance’, or ‘... shall be accepted for it to take effect.’ The legislative standards for self-satisfying reports and reports requiring acceptance, furthermore, need be based on whether substantive review is essential when revising or newly drafting individual reporting regulations. When a substantive review is necessary for matters that may affect people’s life and safety, or matters related to business that require professional qualifications and etc., there should be no provision for deeming reports to be accepted, however. The General Act turned the matter of distinction between a self-satisfying report and a report requiring acceptance into a matter of legislative standards. When the legislative intent to view as a report requiring acceptance is still ambiguous or when the legislation does not conform to the nature of the substantive acceptance, however, based on the nature of the report requirements and the review for the requirements, according to the conventional theories, a report with only a formal requirement is considered as a self-satisfying report in principle, and when both the formal and substantive requirements are reporting requirements but only a formal review of the substantive requirements is possible, it is regarded as a self-satisfying report, and in cases where it is reasonable to decide whether to acceptance or not after a substantive examination, it shall be regarded as a report requiring acceptance.