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Public Administration



Ministry of Public Administration
(Ministrstvo za javno upravo)

 

Tržaška cesta 21, SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 478 83 30
Fax: +386 1 478 83 31
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si
Web Page: http://www.mju.gov.si/index.php?L=1


 

 

 

  

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Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
(Ministrstvo za okolje in prostor)

Dunajska cesta 48, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Phone: +386 1 478 74 00
Fax: +386 1 478 71 82
E-mail: gp.mop@gov.si
Web Page: http://www.mop.gov.si/

 

 

Spatial Development Office
Dunajska cesta 21, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 478 70 14
Fax: +386 1 478 70 10
E-mail: info.upr@gov.si
Web Page: http://www.mop.gov.si/?id=2034
Organization Chart

 

Public Safety

 

Ministry of the Interior
(Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve)

Štefanova ulica 2, SI-1501 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 432 51 25
Fax: +386 1 251 43 30
E-mail: Gp.mnz@gov.si
Web Page: http://www.mnz.gov.si

  

Organization Chart:

  • Ministry's governing bodies:
    • Minister
    • State Secretary
  • Minister's Office
  • Police and Security Directorate
  • Internal Administrative Affairs Directorate
  • Secretariat
  • Internal Audit Service
  • European Affairs and International Cooperation Office
  • Public Relations Office
  • Two bodies within the framework of the Ministry:
    • Police
    • Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Internal Affairs

Policy Overview

Public Administration

Our mission is a client-oriented and efficient public administration, oriented to our clients since service to them is our core mission, as well as oriented to public servants who represent public administration's essence. Such public administration however, shall be achieved with common efforts towards the efficient use of human, financial, material and knowledge resources in public administration.

Slovenian public administration respects the principles of legality, professional conduct, political neutrality and impartiality, openness and orientation towards clients, competency and quality, internal coherency, rationality and effectiveness.  

Our objective is to achieve clients'  as well as civil servants' satisfaction and provide for such public administration that shall overstep the idea of the public administration, comparable to other EU member states, but will challenge the best among EU when focusing on the modern organization, clients' satisfaction and financial effects.

Objectives of Ministry for Public Administration

During the mandate of 2004-2008 and based on its mission, the Ministry for Public Administration has set the following objectives:

  • orientation towards clients
    service to citizens and economy, developing e-government, removal of administrative obstacles, challenging bureaucracy and bureaucratic arrogance
  • encouraging environment for civil servants
    modern civil servants system and human resource management model, transparent and fair salary system in public sector, increasing professionalism in public sector while emphasizing the new public management
  • quality and efficiency of administrative work
    quality and business excellence in public administration,  benchmarking the efficiency of individual public bodies, cost saving state administration, reduction in number of public sector employees
  • openness and transparency
    access to information of public character, transparency of public spending, accessibility of state officials and responsiveness to suggestions and remarks of the clients
  • e-government
    development of e-Government on the level of policy, implementation, cooperation and standardisation coordinated  with other EU administrations. The aim is  to provide citizen and business centric services, to achieve interoperability and use of pan-European services, to foster innovation, use of modern technologies and provide better as well as effective government.

Competences of Ministry for Public Administration

To fulfill its mission successfully and to achieve the mission as set, the Ministry performs its tasks in the following fields:

  • organization and work of public administration,
  • civil servants system,
  • salary system in public sector,
  • e-government and administrative processes reengineering,
  • real estate and equipment management, providing general services,
  • coordination and guidance of the local administrative units.

 

 

 

  

Judiciary

Directorate for Legislation on the Justice System

The Directorate for Legislation on the Justice System deals with preparation of the legislation in the field of justice system. This involves legislation in the field of organisation, status and competences of justice bodies (judges, courts, state prosecution, lawyers, notaries, etc.), criminal legislation (procedural and substantive), civil legislation (procedural and substantive), legislation in the field of protection of personal data, legislation on the Constitutional Court, legislation on co-operation with international criminal courts and tribunals and other related legislation.

Other usual activities include: preparation of drafts of responses of the Government and of the Ministry to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, providing opinions on drafts of legislation and secondary legislation (by-laws), co-operation with international organisations concerning drafting of legislation in states of Central and Eastern Europe. 

Directorate for Justice Administration

The Directorate for Justice Administration is competent in the field of general, financial and personnel matters of the justice bodies and court statistics.

The Directorate invigilates the conditions and gives initiatives and suggestions to give system solutions in the field of personnel management in the justice bodies. It keeps central personnel records of the judges and state prosecutors and the other employees in the courts and state prosecutor's offices, it leads the proceedings of appointing the justice officials as well as heads of the justice bodies, it leads and cooperates, respectively, in the proceedings of appointing the court interpreters, court appraisers and court experts, bankruptcy managers, agents for serving of documents, bailiffs and notaries, it coordinates organisation of the state law examinations and professional examinations for employees in justice bodies and prepares regular statistical reports on the work of the justice bodies. The department proceeds with supervisory appeals initiated by the parties to judicial proceedings and state prosecution service about the work of the justice bodies as well as provides the control over execution of the Court Rules and State Prosecutorial Rules and the Court Fees Act. It is a performer of the expert technical tasks for the ministry and justice agencies planning and executing expert education and acquiring additional skills for the employees in the justice agencies.

The department of the justice administration performs the matters referring to legislation in the field of execution of the penal sanctions, it compiles and edits the data about the pronounced penal sanctions and pronounced re-education sanctions to the physical and legal people as well as it issues the certificates on the facts from the penal record and the record of the re-education.

Within the framework of the department there is also a project group for enacting the Act on the compensation for the injustice.

The Directorate for International Cooperation and International Legal Assistance

The directorate for international cooperation and international legal assistance is in charge of preparation of the legal opinions of the Republic of Slovenia with regard to the drafts of the EU regulations and directives in the field of civil, commercial and criminal law. The governmental opinion is represented by the legal advisers who work for the directorate of international cooperation at the regular meetings of various committees at the European Commission and the Council of the EU. The directorate is also in charge of drafting the necessary technical modifications and informal interpretations of the EU regulations. Furthermore, it is also in charge of preparing the legal documentation for ratification of the international conventions and bilateral agreements.

The department cooperates with the international organisations, among others, the Hague Conference for International Private Law, the UNIDROIT, the UNCITRAL, the Council of Europe and NATO. It also performs tasks of a central agency for cooperation with the Hague Supreme Court for crimes committed at the territory of Yugoslavia and Ruanda. The EU projects that are coordinated by the international directorate include Twinning Projects in the frame of  Transition facility  and CARDS.

In addition, the directorate deals with the matters of international legal assistance which concerns mainly service of documents and taking of evidence. In the field of criminal law it entails the extraditions and transfers of the sentenced persons. The department also provides the information on the national legislation to the foreign judicial and legal authorities and the information on the foreign law to the national judicial and legal authorities.

Secretary’s office

Secretary’s office provides direct assistance to the minister to run the ministry, accordance and continuity of the work of ministry and ensures operation of the ministry’s departments, being in accordance. Secretary’s office runs personnel procedures at the ministry, it coordinates the proceedings to ensure the spatial and other conditions for normal operation of the ministry, it coordinates the preparation of the budget and prepares the financial plan of the ministry; it organises and executes other tasks in the field of the financial management of the ministry. Secretary’s office however plans, organises and provides the computerised basis of the ministry and its connections with the law and court agencies.

 

THE MINISTER’S STATEMENT ON THE DIRECTIVES, SYSTEM AIMS AND MAIN PRIORITIES

The field of justice is extensive and complex, and that is why every administration process and interference with the system is a very delicate action. The changes at any individual part of the system – besides the foreseeable consequences which we aim to accomplish in this part of the system – cause also the unforeseeable; sometimes even unexpected consequences in other integral part of this system, or in some other part. All this is directing me to deal with the tasks in competence of the ministry with a great deal of sensitivity and caution.

My work will be guided by the principles founded on the Slovenian Constitution providing in this respect numerous quite concrete clues for the operation of the judicial system on the one hand, and operation of that part of the justice system which does not directly fall under the heading of judicial system on the other hand. Besides this the Slovenian constitution contains some absolute principles which hold true for operation of all state agencies and by that some implicit directives as for the operation of judicial branch of power as for operation of the governing branch of power. The first principle of the Slovenian constitution being my guide is the principle of the legal state, preceded by the constitutional principle of proportion, constitutional principle of protection of confidence in administration and the constitutional principle of clarity and precision of the regulations, the principle of dividing the authority and the principle of equality before the law. 

One of the first tasks the governing coalition and the Ministry of Justice having to cope with in the following mandate will be the reduction of backlogs in judicial proceedings. We will have to set up a uniform programme of reduction where the aim would be elimination of the delays for good, but this will not happen in a mandate. The preparation of the programme will be coordinated by the Ministry of Justice in cooperation with the heads of the courts, the Supreme Court being the highest authority. The utmost efforts and care will have to be taken for simplifying and standardising the court procedures, at both levels, practical and legislative. This is a task for the Ministry of Justice which will make an effort to find cooperation of all the subjects involved, operating in the field of justice and court. The legislation has to enable the judges efficient management of the judicial procedures and responsible and expert decision-making.

In addition, a very significant task is modernisation of the courts. Having a more modernised information technology, not only as far as land register is concerned and judicial register we could shorten the time of procedures. It is wise to rethink about the new organisation and management in the field of justice administration. Within the limits of possibilities given by the constitution and within the framework of division of the authority and independence of judicature the ministry will strive for initiation of the managing principles into the judicial branch of authority. Naturally, the system of management should be carefully prepared in cooperation with the judicial power; it should be balanced with the ministry of justice and the Supreme Court. In the course of work the judges should mainly accept the court decisions and deal with the court requirements. They should be relieved of the routine procedures, mainly administration.

It should be wise to adjust and qualify the state prosecution as an agency of prosecution of criminals for a more successful prosecution of the newly emerging forms of crime. Moreover, this is what the European Union clearly requires. It is a must to ensure a more successful prosecution of new forms of crime and organised crime. These new forms demand specially qualified and devoted prosecutors, capable of communication with the whole society and international institutions. Most important it is necessary to ensure a more effective work of prosecution in pre-penal proceeding, that is cooperation with the police and its direction. Personally, only in this way the prosecutors may effectively contribute to the growth of legal protection and growth of confidence of the citizens in the legal state.

In the field of execution of penal sanctions it is by all means necessary to ensure better conditions in jail or detention, especially solving the problems of youth crime and underage individuals being involved in these actions. Present penal system with the principle of re-socialisation would be advisable to complete and complement with the principles of prevention.

The present form of the body of notaries without efficient surveillance of the state over the public authorisation has not proved effective in a few years. Therefore establishing competition in this field in the way that everyone fulfilling strict conditions and gaining licence would have the right to the activity might be a better solution. Surveillance over the body of notaries will be performed by the Ministry of Justice and in case of substandard operation and mistakes would lose licence temporarily or permanently.

As far as denationalisation goes, the procedures should be completed in the shortest possible time. This is not the competence of the Ministry of Justice; however, it is merely to invigilate. Indirect execution is a competence of other state agencies. The Ministry of Justice will control the coordination among all the layers of decision-making in the denationalisation claims.

The Ministry of Justice itself must take an active role in the leadership of changes in the field of justice and be in cooperation with all its branches, bearing in mind a greater effectiveness of the justice system.

Slovenia is not an isolated legal subject; it operates within the framework of The Council of Europe executes a special jurisdiction. The Council of Europe, the European court for human rights and the European Convention for the human rights, which is a very significant legal document for the operation of the Slovenian country as well as for the operation of the Ministry of Justice, have all an important role. Additionally, Slovenia is now a member state of the EU. It means that all the documents of general character, for example the European Constitution, as well as all other execution documents being accepted in the EU, are directly binding for Slovenia. Some may come before the Slovenian constitution and must be applied indirectly. This broad sphere, being also very dynamic and subject to rapid changes, is the one which determines the so called premise of value and framework of value, relevant for the operation of the Ministry of Justice.

 

Public Safety

Policy areas governed by the Ministry:

Pursuant to the Public Administration Act, the Ministry of the Interior performs tasks in the fields of public security and the police, internal administrative affairs and migrations.

1. Internal administrative affairs

The activities are closely related to the state and its administration:  

  • civil status of citizens (registers, personal name, registration of the population and public documents, protection of personal data),
  • other civil matters (vehicles and roadworthiness tests, weapons, explosives and hazardous substances),
  • public assembly and gathering (assembly of groups with the same interests – societies, political association – parties, election campaigning, public assemblies and events, institutions – foundations).

2. Migration

Initiatives and proposals for the development and implementation of migration policy of the republic of Slovenia, monitoring the situation in the area of migration, identifying migration-related trends and phenomena and decision-making related to integration of aliens, coordination of international and European cooperation in the area of migrations, collecting and processing of migration data, cooperation with domestic and international institutions and cooperation with international organisations engaged in migration and asylum processes (IOM, ICMPD, SE), upholding the implementation of laws and regulations and acts in the area concerned, drafting of laws and secondary legislation instruments and coordination of task force for ensuring harmonised and coordinated cooperation in the area of migrations and for the preparation of measures to pursue the principles and objectives of the migration policy as appointed under the Aliens Act and the Resolution on migration policy of the Republic of Slovenia.

3. Police and Security Directorate

The activities are:

  • direct and supervise the police force, prepare draft mandatory and other policies for the police service prescribed by the minister, and   development, organisation, personnel guidance related to policing in accordance with the existing rules,
  • prepare general policies and solutions to be implemented in various fields of policing, drafting of organic and normative legislation, regulatory acts and other police-related provisions
  • perform activities related to supervision and public authority and regulation of detective and private security,
  • deal with access to classified information matters and defence and contingency planning,
  • carry out procedures related to complaints against police officers and the police within the ministry. 

4. Police

As a body within the Ministry, the Police are the pillar of national security and are entrusted with ensuring a high level of security to all Slovenian citizens by protecting the constitutional order and democracy and other constitutional values. The Police uphold the law and respect the legal order, European conventions and recommendations, police ethics and professional standards and consistently respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms.      

5. Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Internal Affairs

The inspectorate carries out supervision over the implementation of the legislation in the area of private protection and detective services in as well as in the area of firearms and ammunition, roadworthiness tests, civil servants regulations and administrative inspection.

 

Milestones

Public Administration

1991   Upon gaining its independence the Republic of Slovenia took over the administrative structures from the former Yugoslav state.
(The administrative structure of former Yugoslav state which was laid down by the law in 1955 was based on the notion of “commune” – according to idea of the “Paris commune”. Through the years it has undergone through some significant changes: in 1963 it has become a constitutional category and in 1974 the Constitution of Socialist Republic of Slovenia introduced a “new” basic unit of self-government – a municipality.)
1993   Establishment of the Government Centre for Informatics, a body in charge of developing the infrastructure for ICT in public administration and to support government departments’ ICT projects.
1994   A thorough administrative reform in the field of public administration and local self-government.
1995   A double track system was introduced with public administration comprising the government, government agencies, ministries and administrative units on one side, and municipalities as basic local communities on the other side.
1997/1999   Governmental Strategy on Public Administration Reform 1997 within Slovene Accession to European Union (33 projects in 6 fields: state administration, local self-government, public services, protection of individual rights, civil service system, public finances).
2000   Legislative Reform and other approaches (restructuring Public Administrative Barriers, Quality Management, e-government, output budgeting)
2001   The Slovenian GOVernmental Certification Authority SIGOV-CA starts to operate. SIGOV-CA certificates are used by public administration employees.
    The Slovenian Government adopts an e-government strategy document, entitled “Strategy for E-Commerce in Public Administration for the Period 2001-2004”. The document serves as a foundation for all efforts, projects, activities, and tasks for the development of electronic government by the end of 2004.
    The e-Government – State Portal is launched in March.
    The Slovenian General Certification Authority SIGEN-CA starts to operate. SIGEN-CA is the issuer of qualified digital certificates for legal and natural persons in the Republic of Slovenia.
2002   The Government adopts the Action Plan for e-Government up to 2004, which defines the objectives, e-services, and tasks for establishing e-government up to the end of 2004. The Action Plan derives from the Strategy of E-Commerce in Public Administration 2001-2004 (SEP), as well as from analysis of clients’ needs and EU guidelines and activities for the development of e-government.
2002/2003   Adoption of Civil Servants Act, Public Administration Act, Public Agencies Act, Inspection and Supervision Act, Act on the Access to Information of Public Character.
2003   Governmental Strategy on further development of Slovene public sector.
    The Government adopts “Republic of Slovenia in the Information Society”, a strategy paper for the development of the Information Society in the country.
    The Slovenian Government adopts a “Policy for the development, introduction and use of open-source software and solutions“. The document is designed to provide clear strategic guidance on the use of Open Source Software (OSS) to government institutions and bodies, but also the wider public sector and beyond.
    The SIovenian Time Stamping Authority SI-TSA starts to operate. It is an issuing authority for trusted electronic time stamps, intended mostly for applications used by public administration institutions
    The e-Government - State Portal is re-launched (the first State Portal was launched in 2001). The enhanced portal offers various services to citizens, legal persons and public employees. Among the novelties is the Electronic Administrative Affairs application (EAA or Elektronske upravne zadeve - EUZ), which supports full electronic handling of administrative forms registered in a centrally maintained registry of procedures. The application can be used by residents equipped with a qualified digital certificates valid in Slovenia.
    In the December the Tax Administration of the Republic of Slovenia (DURS) launches the eDavki (eTaxes) portal, enabling all legal and natural persons to conduct business with the Tax Office electronically. As of 1 March 2004, taxpayers can use it to submit their income tax returns online.
2004   Establishment of the Ministry of Public Administration.
2005   Establishment of the Service portal for business entities (Slovenian: e-VEM) - One stop shop which among others allows businesses to be registered online has been operating since 1st of July 2005. The basic purpose of the e-VEM project is to provide a suitable information support for the future entrepreneur and enable him/her to start with business operations in the shortest time possible. The project is covering two scopes of activities and relationships: state - legal persons (G2B) and state - state (G2G).

 

  

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Directorate for Legalisation on the Justice System

A key achievement of the Directorate for Legislation on the Justice System from the year 2000 was enacting of 48 statutes (Acts of Parliament). In this period also 156 acts of secondary legislation (by-laws) under the working field of the Ministry of Justice were also passed. Among the other statutes which were also enacted were the following new "system" statutes: Obligations Code, Minor Offences Act, Land Register Act, Labour and Social Courts Act, Personal Data Protection Act, Act on the European Arrest and Surrender Warrant.

Directorate for Justice Administration

In 2002, as far as the Directorate for Justice Administration is concerned, the key event was the transition to an electronic record of court statistics data and the publication of Courts` Statistical Bulletin on the official webpage of the Ministry. In 2003, a directory of court experts, court assessors and court interpreters was published on the Ministry’s webpage. Furthermore, 2004 saw the successful establishment of the central personal evidence of judicial bodies.

For the Directorate for International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance May 1st 2004 and the entrance of Slovenia into the EU was by all means also of key importance. This event was a consequence of long-term cooperation and preparation in the field of implementing the regulations of the EU and having the right to participate in its working bodies, preparation for the occupation of jobs in justice agencies in the EU, active participation when preparing the Access treaty and providing the necessary information for the technical adjustments.

In addition, a more significant event for the department was that it held an international conference in Čatež in June 2003, titled “Strengthening of transparency and confidence in justice – invigilating and estimating effectiveness of the court”. At the conference the following were accepted: recommendations to form norms for determination of the scope of judicial work, recommendations regarding the optimisation of the work in courts in terms of organisation and leadership, legislation recommendations to initiate court assistants, recommendations to establish an educational academy to educate in the field of court and justice, recommendations regarding unifying statistics of the courts and extensive recommendations to settle work and social disputes.

The Ministry of Justice has jointly with German and English partners executed the Twinning project under the title: “Modernisation of the Justice System”, which began on 8th November 2002 and was completed on 30th April 2004. The purpose of the project was to reduce the number of court delays and shorten the procedures in important matters, as well as educating the representatives of justice. In its framework, numerous activities, seminar groups and visits with participation of the entire justice personnel were carried out.

 

Public Safety

2004 On 1st May 2004 the Slovenia became a full member of European Union. During the accession process, the police force focused on harmonization of the national legislation with EU legislation in accordance with the national strategy and also on the other fields of justice and home affairs, as an efficient control of the national border, the implementation of the Schengen Action Plan, in the field of personnel and information and telecommunications etc. On 1st September Slovenia became a full member of EUROPOL.

International Cooperation

Public Administration

Slovenia successfully participates in the following organizations:

EPAN (European Public Administration Network) in the following areas:
Human Resources Management,
e-Goverment,
Innovative Public Services Group,
Better Regulation;
our active role is evident through regular attendance of the meetings and conferences, furthermore our representatives are entrusted with holding presentations and chairing some of the groups;

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) – observer status in Public Governance Committee;

NISPA Cee (Network of School of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe)
The international cooperation in the specific field of e-Government is carried out through the participation in the following projects:

IDA II and IDABC programmes:

EBGCA (European Bridge Certification Authority),
EUDRANET (European Telecommunication Network in Pharmaceuticals (partly IDA, managed by EMEA)),
EXTRANET (Extranet Network),
ISEG (Information Security Experts Group),
Portal Your Europe,
TESTA (Trans-European Services for Telematics between Administrations).
Participation in other projects, activities, standardisation bodies:

CCN (Common Communication Network),
CEN (European Committee for Standardization) / ISSS  (Information Society Standardization System),
EU ESS (Electronic Signature Committee),
EU SIAPPC (Safer Internet Action Plan Committee),
OVSE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) - Security Experts Group,
Porvoo group - Interoperable European Electronic Identities.
The cooperation is also strong in the field of training civil servants. This cooperation is performed by Administrative Academy which is working with institutes and schools in the field of public administration (European Reciprocal Training Programme):

ROI (Dutch Institute for Public Administration),
HAUS (The Finnish Institute of Public Management),
BAKOEV (Federal Academy for Public Administration, Germany),
CMPS (Centre for Management and Policy Studies, United Kingdom),
ENA (French National School of Public Administration),
INA (National Institute for Public Administration, Portugal).  
On bilateral level cooperation takes place

with various countries e.g. France, Ireland, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, as well as with structures on regional level such as Landern. An example of that is permanent mixed Slovene-Bavarian Commission.

Judiciary

International cooperation of the Ministry comprises of two divisions: international cooperation of the Ministry in international organisations and regional initiatives (EU, The Council of Europe, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, etc.).

  • The term international cooperation refers to the execution of the directives and interests of Slovenia and the Ministry, respectively, in a certain organisation or initiative. Hereby, the Ministry and its delegation, respectively, receive from the Government only a starting-point within the framework of which it searches for the best possible solutions.  According to the number of the participants/parties involved and, consequently, the greater need for adjusting to the situations the framework must be extensive. Most of the activities are performed within the EU and the Council of Europe. 
  • The term bilateral cooperation refers to the exchange of the experience, point of views and opinions on the subject of bilateral matters as well as on the matters of multi-lateral origin, both countries being interested in them. Some forms of bilateral cooperation have directed into assistance to the other countries. The starting-point framework of the bilateral cooperation is easier to define as the (specified) authority of the ministry is by all means greater in this case. Up till now the cooperation with the neighbouring countries, the European countries to which Slovenia has been traditionally connected to as well as the countries of the western Balkans has been a priority.

 

Public Safety

International cooperation take place in two extensive areas.

bilateral cooperation – in addition to good cooperation we strive for establishment, maintenance, and development of bilateral agreements in various areas such as administrative internal affairs and police cooperation.
multilateral cooperation – we cooperate with international organisations, institutions, initiatives etc. The emphasis is placed on professional representation of the state's home affairs within these organisations or as part of activities connected with resolving professional issues of multilateral significance, in professional discussions and comparative research, exchange of experience, training etc.
At the multilateral level, the Ministry cooperates with the United Nations, Council of Europe,
EUROPOL, INTERPOL, OSCE, SECI, Stability Pact for South-East Europe, Central European Initiative, ICMPD (the Budapest group, IOM, Adriatic-Ionian Initiative.

 

Main Documents

Public Administration

  • Civil Servants Act (Official Gazette of RS, No. 56/2002 110/2002, 2/2004, 23/2005, 62/2005)
  • Public Administration Act (Official Gazette of RS, No. 52/2002, 56/2003, 61/2004, 123/2004 )
  • Public Agencies Act (Official Gazette of RS, No. 52/2002)
  • Act on the Access to Information of Public Character (Official Gazette of RS, No. 24/2003, 61/2005) - http://www.dostopdoinformacij.si/index.php?id=253
  • Decree on Bodies within Ministries (Official Gazette of RS, No. 58/2003, 45/2004, 86/2004, 138/2004, 52/2005, 82/2005)
  • Decree on restrictions and duties of civil servants in connection with the acceptance of gifts (Official Gazette of RS, No. 56/2002)
  • Action plan of e-Government for 2004
  • Development Strategy of Slovenia – Efficient State
  • Decree on the Procedure of filling a vacancy in State Administration and Judicial bodies (Official Gazette of RS, No. 22/2004)
  • Decree on administrative operations (Official Gazette of RS, No. 20/2005)
  • Information Commissioner Act (2005)

 

 

  

Judiciary

  • A report on the work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia for the year 2003
  • Programme of work for the year 2004
  • A report on the work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia for the first part of the year 2003
  • A report on the work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia for the year 2002
  • Programme of work for the year 2003
  • A report on the work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia for the first part of the year 2002
  • A report on the work of the Ministry of Justiceof the Republic of Slovenia for the year 2001
  • A report to the government of the Republic of Slovenia on the visit of the European Committee CPT in Slovenia
  • An answer of the government of the Republic of Slovenia to the report of the committee CPT on the visit in Slovenia

 

Public Saftey

 

Basic Indicators

Public Administration

(Public Administration consists of: Ministries – 15, Administration units - 58, Municipalities – 193)

Number and share of employees in public administration according to the total number of employees

YEAR TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SHARE OF EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN %
1996 744290 40453 5,4
1997 743431 42335 5,7
1998 745169 41659 5,6
1999 758474 42781 5,6
2000 768172 44149 5,7
2001 779041 45812 5,9
2002 783499 46853 6,0
 

Information Society indicators
 

Percentage of households with a PC:

 58% (2004, first quarter)
Internet usage by individuals: 43.2% (2004, first quarter)
Internet usage by enterprises of 10+ employees: 42% (2004)
Use of broadband connection: households 22%; enterprises 66% (2004)
Usage of Internet by individuals for purchasing / ordering goods or services (excl. shares / financial services): 9.8% (2004, first quarter)
Enterprises having purchased via Internet: 17% (2004)
Enterprises having received orders via Internet: 15% (2004)
Internet usage by individuals for interaction with public authorities: obtaining information 27.2%, obtaining forms 16.2%, returning filled forms 6.8% (2004, first quarter)
Internet usage by enterprises for interaction with public authorities: obtaining information 46%, obtaining forms 43%, returning filled forms 36% (2004)

Source: SURS, Research Internet Slovenia (RIS), Eurostat

 

Judiciary

The movement of all cases at courts
The Courts Unsolved cases New cases Cases in process Solved cases Unsolved cases (30/6/04) Distinction in %
All courts  589358 313598 902956 327873 575083 -2,40%
Supreme Court of the RS 4157 2101 6258 2143 4115 -1%
Higher Courts 12126 13513 25639 13102 12537 +3,40%
District Courts 41188 61024 102212 60453 41759 +1,40%
Local Courts 513635 227373 741008 241653 499355 -2,80%
Administrative Court 5248 3288 8536 3535 5001 -4,70%
Higher specialised court 2544 1382 3926 1451 2475 -2,70%
Specialised courts for the first instance 10460 4917 15377 5536 9841 -5,80%
The table presents the movement of all the cases in court. Joint data on the movement of cases at courts of general competence and specialised courts indicate that the courts received 313,598 new cases to solve in the first half of 2004. The courts had together with unsolved cases from previous years (589, 358) 912,956 cases in process. They solved 327, 873 cases so that on 30th  June 2004 there were 575,083 unsolved cases meaning 2.4% reduction of the number of total unsolved cases.

The movement of most important cases at courts
The Courts Unsolved cases New cases Cases in process Solved cases Unsolved cases 30/06/04) Distinction  in %
All Courts 135847 65686 201533 71820 129713 -4,50%
Supreme Court of the RS 4157 2101 6258 2143 4115 -1,00%
Higher Courts 12126 13513 25639 13102 12537 3,40%
District Courts 34989 14798 49787 14685 35102 0,30%
Local Courts 66391 26501 92892 32182 60710 -8,60%
Administrative Court 5242 3262 8504 3511 4993 -4,80%
Higher specialised court 2544 1382 3926 1451 2475 -2,70%
Specialised courts for the first instance 10398 4129 14527 4746 9781 -5,90%
According to a trustworthy methodology of evaluating the statistical data the Ministry of Justice is especially concerned with the movement of the important and other cases. Among important cases at District Court and at Local Court there are the cases where the courts decide on the cases substantive: penal cases, investigations, penal cases with the underage, legal cases, economic legal cases, bankruptcy, legacy cases and important non-procedural issues. At the other courts the important cases are not exposed and therefore there are all cases which the courts process (except for the free of charge cases of legal help).

Public Safety

Housed Asylum Seekers
  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Months Index Cumulative index
            2004/03 2004/03

January

 101 169 38 113 61 54 54

February

 250 332 59 126 122 97 77

March

 259 240 34 63 136 216 106

April

 283 209 42 86 152 177 121

May

 326 233 63 109 115 106 118

June

 640 205 19 134 55 41 102

July

 877 148 50 152 51 34 88

August

 1580 104 28 168 87 52 82

September

 1738 63 35 285 92 32 70

October

 3402 42 58 194 107 55 68

November

 2305 63 123 166 107 64 68

December

 1182 74 96 253 120 47 65

TOTAL

 12943 1882 645 1849 1205    

 
Asylum Applications in Slovenia
YEAR no. of applications  re-filed applications renewed procedures resolved cases status granted rejected applications stopped procedures applications dismissed safe third country
1995 6 / / 17 2 4 10 1 /
1996 35 / / 26 0 0 5 21 /
1997 72 / / 51 0 8 15 28 /
1998 337 / / 82 1 27 13 41 /
1999 744 / / 441 0 87 237 117 /
2000 9244 / / 969 11 46 831 0 81
2001 1511* / / 10042 25 97 9911 9 0
2002 640 / 60 739 3 105 619 12 0
2003 1066 35 45 1166 37 123 964 17 25
** Applications lodged include those applications that were processed again after appeal at the Administrative Court

 
Asylum Applications in 2004 by Month
  JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL

filed

 60 118 131 148 111 52 51 86 91 107 104 114 1173

re-filed

1 4 5 4 4 3 2 1 1 2 2 6 35

renewed procedure

 6 19 18 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 7 70

cases resolved

 101 126 146 97 143 52 63 68 49 72 85 123 1125

positive

 7 7 5 1 8 1 1 3 1 0 3 2 39

negative

 28 30 24 14 31 34 26 30 20 18 34 28 317

ceased

 63 88 112 80 100 17 34 33 25 52 43 90 737

dismissed

 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 3 2 5 3 20

safe third country

 2 1 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
As of 31.12.2004 323 asylum applications are still to be decided on.

 
Applications for Recognition of Special Form of Protection in 2004 by Month
  JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL
filed 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 4 0 1 0 0 12
renewed procedure 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4
resolved 0 2 1 1 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 2 15
positive 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
negative 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 2 1 0 0 0 10
ceased 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2
dismissed 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
As of 31.12.2004 4 applications for special form of protections remain yet to be resolved.

 
Number of Fingerprints Supplied to the EURODAC
  May June Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec TOTAL
EURODAC ENTRIES 95 48 40 63 72 80 78 92 568
Key: the number of entries of fingerprint data into the EURODAC

 
Requests for Fingerprint Checks
  May June Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec TOTAL
TOTAL REQUESTS RECEIVED 8 5 12 13 7 20 18 17 100
EURODAC REQUESTS 0 2 6 9 4 10 14 7 52
AFFIRMATIVE REPLY OF Slovenia 0 2 3 1 6 10 16 7 45
NEGATIVE REPLY OF Slovenia 2 6 9 6 6 6 8 12 55
UNPROCESSED REQUESTS 6 3 3 9 2 8 2 0 /
ASYLUM SEEKERS RETURNED 0 1 0 0 0 3 3 1 8
Key:
  • number of Dublin requests submitted by other EU Member States to Slovenia,
  • number of requests submitted on the basis of a hit (fingerprints confirmed) in the  EURODAC
  • positive responses submitted by Slovenia,
  • negative responses submitted by Slovenia,
  • unprocessed cases (deadlines provided by the Dublin regulation
  • cases processed successfully, asylum seekers sent back to Slovenia (database responses were positive)
Requests for Fingerprint Sent
  May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL
TOTAL REQUESTS SENT 6 12 6 10 3 2 11 3 53
EURODAC REQUESTS 1 11 6 10 3 2 9 3 45
AFFIRMATIVE REPLY OF OTHER MS 1 3 5 6 7 0 7 2 31
NEGATIVE REPLY OF  OTHER MS 0 5 1 4 4 0 1 1 16
UNPROCESSED REQUESTS 5 9 9 9 1 3 6 6 6
ASYLUM SEEKERS RETURNED 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 7
Key:
  • number of Dublin requests submitted by Slovenia TO other EU Member States,
  • number of requests submitted on the basis of a hit (fingerprints confirmed) in the  EURODAC
  • positive responses submitted by other EU Member States
  • negative responses submitted by other EU Member States
  • unprocessed cases (deadlines provided by the Dublin regulation
  • cases processed successfully, asylum seekers sent back to other EU Member States (their database responses were positive

 

Contact Persons

Public Administration

Within the Ministry, the following directorates and services are active:

Directorate for Management and Personnel
Director-General: Mojca Ramšak Pešec
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 1650
Fax: +386 1 478 1699
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si


Directorate for Salaries in Public Sector
Director-General: Igor Klinar, MA
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 1869
Fax: +386 1 478 8649
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si
 

Directorate for e-Government and Administrative Processes
Director-General: Franc Tomažič
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 8651
Fax: +386 1 478 8649
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si


Directorate for Investments, Real Estate and Joint Services of State Administration
Acting Director-General: Stane Cvelbar
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 1800
Fax: +386 1 478 1805
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si


International Relations Service
Head of the Service: Dr. Aleš Dobnikar
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 8651
Fax: +386 1 478 8649
E-mail: Ales.Dobnikar@gov.si


Public Relations and Promotion Service
Miran Koren
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 8433
Fax: +386 1 478 8331
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si


General Secretariat Service
Secretary-General: Marko Doblekar, MA
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 1827
Fax: +386 1 478 1805
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si


Internal Auditing Service
Mateja Plankar, M.Sc.
Address: Tržaška cesta 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: +386 1 478 8330
Fax: +386 1 478 8331
E-mail: gp.mju@gov.si

 

  

Judiciary

Mr. Robert Marolt, State Secretary
Ministry of Justice, Župančičeva 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 369 57 63
Fax: +386 1 369 55 96
E-mail: robert.marolt@gov.si

Mrs. Mojca Hardi, Public Relations & Freedom of Information
Ministry of Justice, Župančičeva 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 369 57 62
Fax: +386 1 369 55 19
E-mail: mojca.hardi@gov.si

Mr. Tomaž Pogačar, M.Sc., General Secretary
Ministry of Justice, Župančičeva 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 369 52 96
Fax: +386 1 369 52 76
E-mail: tomaz.pogacar@gov.si

National Contact Points

 

Public Safety

Mr. Bojan Potočnik, Minister's Office
Ministry of the Interior, Štefanova 2, SI-1501 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 472 57 99
E-mail: policija@policija.si

Mrs. Vesna Drole, Public Relations, Head of Office
Ministry of the Interior, Štefanova 2, SI-1501 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 252 87 00
E-mail: vesna.drole@gov.si, ssj.mnz@gov.si

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