The government has canceled its decision from January this year, which allocated additional funding of 2,098,877 euros to the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC). The Council of Ministers' motive is that the predicted drastic increase in cases, for which the money was requested, has never happened in practice.
The funds were to be used to appoint 16 new judges and 25 employees in the court's administration. The request for the millionth tranche was made by the Supreme Judicial Council, based on the expectations of the SAC leadership for a huge workload this year.
The concerns of the supreme judges were related to the changes in the State Property Act, which entered into force in September 2025. According to them, all disputes surrounding the expropriation of private property for the construction of national sites began to be appealed directly to the Supreme Administrative Court, and not to local administrative courts.
The institutions expected this to block the work of magistrates, which necessitated the urgent voting on an additional budget. However, the analysis of the real situation to date shows a radically different picture.
Official statistics indicate that from January 2025 to March 2026, a total of 112 cases were filed across the country on similar cases. The data is even more categorical after the introduction of the new legal provisions - from September last year to the present, only 18 cases have been filed with the Supreme Administrative Court itself.
This means that the court hears an average of two such proceedings per month. Since the decisions on these cases are final and not subject to cassation appeal, an additional accumulation of cases is not expected. Based on these numbers, the government has decided that maintaining an additional staff of over 40 people is unjustified and the funds provided are completely disproportionate to the actual work.