Enforcement Actions. Are They Measures of Responsibility?

Abstract

The paper analyzes restrictions of the debtor's rights employed in enforcement procedures (enforcement actions) in the context of criteria of legal responsibility. Using as examples restrictions applied to the right to travel abroad, to exercise special rights, as well as to post information with regard to the identity of the debtor in the public register of enforcement proceedings, the author draws a conclusion that enforcement proceedings, in addition to measures recognized by the law-maker and the law doctrine as measures of responsibility, include a number of other enforcement measures that are not technically recognized as measures of responsibility. However, in the view of some criteria of responsibility, they can be treated as such based on the process of their implementation. Such measures are indirect measures of coercion, i.e. they are aimed at forcing the debtor to fulfill what is demanded under an enforcement document. The mentioned above should not entail any decrease in the level of legal safeguards for the debtor as the adressee of such measures.