Since 1994, with the signing of the Protocol of Ouro Preto (pop), which granted mercosur with international legal personhood and provided it with an institutional structure, the question of whether organizational principles of administrative law would apply to these new regional bodies has emerged. This paper focuses on understanding the principles of administrative organization governing the institutional structure of mercosur and bases its analysis on the organizational principles of administrative law. It considers how this structure has created its own principles since they were not able to supersede norms and principles established in foreign regional legal frameworks.
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