Year 2010

In 2010, special attention was paid to the area of labour law, primarily due to the realisation of the Programme of administrative unburdening ‘Minus 25%’. Thus the main activities were performed in the procedures of amendments to the Employment and Insurance against Unemployment Act, with which new acts were being prepared – the Labour Market Regulation Act, and Occupational Health and Safety Act, and further on, in other acts which were the subject of this Action Programme.

Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and Instruction No. 10 for Implementing the Provisions of the Rules of Procedure of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia were made. The Rules amending the Rules of Procedure of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia were adopted on 8 April 2010 and entered into force on 4 May 2010. The contents of the aforementioned amendments follow the directives of the Resolution on Legislative Regulation and specifically regulate the implementation of the impact assessments of regulations, and specifically define cooperation and consultations with the public. The technical or implementation aspect of these provisions was included in the text of Instruction No. 10 for Implementing the Provisions of the Rules of Procedure of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, which was adopted on 26 May 2010 and entered into force on 4 June 2010. The Instruction specifically defines the constituent parts of the accompanying letter and the contents of government material, and the manner of their preparation.

Information support for the legislative procedure was also carried out. On 1 April 2010, the information support system for procedures for the preparation of regulations came into use. This system covers all significant stages in the process of adopting regulations and enables the inclusion of contributions of the interested public to the contents of regulations. The connection of the support system with the web portal e-democracy enables simple monitoring of valid legislation and legislation at the preparatory stage in one place, since the provisions of the Resolution, Rules on Procedures, the Instruction as well as of the Act on the Access to Information of Public Character require ministries and government offices to publish all regulations at the preparatory stage on their websites with the purpose of informing and cooperating with the public. This single point of contact is located on the e-democracy portal and is available on the Internet.

Within the second stage of the implementing the Action Programme for the Reducing Administrative Burdens by 25 per cent by 2012, 3,529 regulations were reviewed and EUR 1.5 billion administrative burdens were assessed on the basis of the common methodology for measuring administrative costs. The analyses showed that greater emphasis regarding unburdening will have to be put on the area of environment and spatial planning, labour legislation, cohesion (drawing on European funds), finance (including taxes and excise duties), the economy (including status related legal affairs, and business or financial reports), and taxes and other duties.