“Where as public administration and public management studies easily identify perverse consequences of will too rigid application of principle of legality, too little attention has portably been paid to what is inherent in the law applying lo public administration, and to what is due to the well-intentioned zeal of badly trainee administrators who do not differentiate law and detailed written regulation. This might be one of me reasons why there has been a trend in most European countries to increase the number of M-men regulations that go very deep into details.T00 many civil servants whose main task is to write down regulations or general non-binding directives on how to apply the law have not1-5C6lV3d an appropriate training in drafting statutory law according to the best tradition of continental codification. Even more civil servants totally underestimate their own margins ofm311O€11Vl'€ in those cases where statute law Empowers them with discretionary powers, that15, the possibility to adapt the application of legal principles to the circumstances of the case. Typically, the French administrative courts have often been led to declare void an administrative decision because its author did not exercise his order discretionary power on the sole merits of a given case, but blindly applied general directives issued by ministerial departments