The Necessity of Prior Notice in Administrative Decisions by looking at French law

The right to be heard as one of the main elements of the principle of right of defense,is one of the important rights that, particularly in recent decades, has been taken into consideration in administrative law, and plays a special role in protecting the rights and interests of citizens affected by administrative decisions. It should be noted that this principle and the necessity of its observance, despite certain differences, has been accepted in Iranian and French legal systems. One of the issues related to the right to be heard is prior notice to an interested person about an imminent decision-making process that may threaten his rights and interests. In this paper, it is attempted to present the analysis in order to apply this issue in Iranian administrative law, while expressing the status of prior notice in decision-makings and necessity of this subject in Iranian and French administrative laws.