Slovakia
1. Legal Gazette
1.1. Overview
Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky
The Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic
Published by:
Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky, sekcia edičných
činností
(Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic, Editorial Activities
Department)
Župné námestie 13 — 811 01 Bratislava
Slovakia
Tel. +421 288891131
E-mail: ms.sec.sek@justice.sk ; helpdesk@slovlex.sk
Website: https://www.justice.gov.sk/
| Official journal / legal gazette |
The Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky (Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic) - paper edition Elektronická Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky; eZbierka (Electronic Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic; e-Collection) available on SLOV-LEX portal - online edition |
| First edition |
January 1993 |
| First online edition |
January 2016 |
| Paper edition |
Zbierka zákonov
Slovenskej republiky
Price
Depends on the number of laws in the specific edition
Legally binding |
| Online edition |
1. Public sector services
eZbierka (e-Collection) is available on SLOV-LEX (Legislative and Information Portal of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic)
https://www.slov-lex.sk/ezz
Legally binding
Access and price
Free
2. Private sector service
https://www.epi.sk/
https://www.zakonypreludi.sk/
https://www.noveaspi.sk/
Access and price
Free |
| CD/DVD edition |
No CD/DVD edition |
1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general
| Content |
Zbierka zákonov (Z.z.) contains:
- Constitution, constitutional laws
- Laws passed by the National Council of the Slovak Republic (parliament)
- Government ordinances
- Generally binding legal regulations issued by ministries and other central bodies of the state administration
- International agreements and treaties
- Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
- Legal notices
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| Legal basis |
Act No 400/2015 Coll. on the Creation of Legal Acts and on the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic (zákon č. 400/2015 Z. z. o tvorbe právnych predpisov a o Zbierke zákonov Slovenskej republiky a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov) |
| Legally binding |
Paper edition and online edition |
| Financing |
The printing and distribution of Zbierka zákonov is carried out by a private company (legal person) on a contractual basis with the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic. All related costs are covered by the private company. |
| Other gazettes |
Apart from the notices published in the Zbierka zákonov, there are also the following main official gazettes containing official notices and other legal announcements:
- Obchodný vestník (Commercial Journal), published by the Ministry of Justice, Editorial Activities Department, contains data, decisions and notifications that must be published in the Commercial Journal if the Commercial Code and a specific law require it.
- Vestník verejného obstarávania (Public Procurement Journal), published by the Office for Public Procurement, contains preliminary notifications, regular notifications, notifications concerning methods of public procurement and their results, list of businessmen.
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1.3. Details on the online edition
Legally binding eZbierka (e-Collection) is available on SLOV-LEX (Legislative and Information Portal of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic)
https://www.slov-lex.sk/ezz
| Functionalities |
- Download (not available for all texts)
- Hyperlinks (not available for all texts)
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| Format description |
- HTML
- PDF (available only for texts difficult to convert into HTML)
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| Authenticity |
Online texts are directly created from the sources (data) of the Ministry of Justice. The same data are used for the paper edition (legally binding) as well as for the online edition (legally binding) |
| Archiving |
- Archive on the SLOV-LEX portal containes a compressed file of the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic since 1918
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1.4. Details on the publishing institution
Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky
(Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic)
For contact details, please refer to point 1.1
| Form and nature |
Public body (ministry) |
| Basic tasks |
- Pre-press: yes
- Printing: carried out by a private company
- Dissemination/distribution: carried out by a private company
- Legal gazette online: yes
- Legislation database: yes
- Consolidation: yes
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| Other services offered |
Information concerning individual parts of the Zbierka zákonov or information concerning the activity of the department itself |
1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures
Text processing
systems |
The e-Collection module enables free access to the legal system of the Slovak Republic at any time, regardless of geographical location. It offers the following features:
- fast and efficient search engine to find electronically signed PDF versions of legal acts with both informative and legally binding content
- chronological register of legal acts as published in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic
- discussion on legal acts
- archive - a compressed file of the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic since 1918
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| Workflow |
The primary function of the e-Legislation module is to provide its users with access to the law-making process at any time, regardless of geographical location. It offers the following features:
- fast and efficient search engine to find ongoing legislative processes and comments
- discussion on legislative processes
- preliminary information
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| Publishing |
- Following approval and signing, laws are delivered from the Office of the National Council (the parliament) directly to the Office of the Collection of Laws. As for secondary legislation, it is delivered from the proposer (e.g. government office) to the Office of the Collection of Laws.
- Electronic editions are delivered via portal (mentioned above).
- Legal regulations should be published at the latest 15 days after delivery to the Office of the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic (Act No 400/2015 Coll. on the Creation of Legal Acts and on the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic).
- Paper and electronic editions are derived from the same file.
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2. Collections of consolidated Legislation
See full details >>
SLOV-LEX: Legislative and Information Portal of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
https://www.slov-lex.sk/ezz
Body carrying out
consolidation |
Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic |
Status of the
consolidated texts |
Consolidation is for information purposes only. |
| Access |
Free of charge |
Deadline for
consolidation |
Consolidated text is published online on the day of publication of an amendment |
3. Legislative portals and online databases
3.1. Official portals
SLOV-LEX
Legislative and Information Portal of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
https://www.slov-lex.sk/
Organisation
responsible |
Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky
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3.2. Official databases
eZbierka (e-Collection) on SLOV-LEX portal
https://www.slov-lex.sk/ezz
Organisation
responsible |
Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky
SLOV-LEX Unit |
| Content |
SLOV-LEX portal provides professionals and general public with electronic access to applicable law and all the relevant information regarding law. It provides lawmakers with effective legislative tools too.
The portal also enables the public to acquaint itself with proposed bills and take an active role in the law-making process using commenting tools. One of the greatest advantages of the system, however, is publishing of set versions of legal enactments. This permits its users to get easily familiar with numerous changes and amendments. Moreover, this system allows one to display, print or otherwise process the content of a legal enactment in its subsequently amended forms.
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| Access |
Free of charge |
| Access via N-Lex (see Annex 2) |
Yes |
3.3. Additional information: other commonly used legal databases
The following hosts disseminate an online edition of EUR-Lex under licence from the Publications Office:
