Text file: 4855.txt
author: greselc1
downvotes: 0
end consideration date: 2013-08-13
id: '4855'
number comments: 2
number views: 2918
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport\n1. The Driving\
  \ Drivers Act replaced the wording \"driving school\" with \"driving school\" and\
  \ stipulated that motor vehicles used to train driver candidates must display a\
  \ light panel on the roof with the inscription \"DRIVING SCHOOL L\", with driving\
  \ schools being required to change the name on the light panels no later than one\
  \ year after the entry into force of the Act (i.e. no later than 1 January 2007),\
  \ and that driving schools must change the name on the light panels within one year\
  \ of the entry into force of the Act. Driving schools have complied with the law\
  \ and replaced the light boards with new ones, but due to the different naming in\
  \ the past, the term \"driving school\" is still sometimes used colloquially.\n\
  \ 2. Article 14(1)(21) of the Drivers Act provides that the Minister responsible\
  \ for transport shall designate the test centres organised as territorial branches\
  \ of a public agency and their areas, the place where the driving test is to be\
  \ held and the categories of vehicles for which driving tests are to be held at\
  \ each test centre, taking into account the density of traffic, the layout of traffic\
  \ areas, the equipment of intersections, the number of driver candidates and the\
  \ number of drivers to be tested. Changes to the areas and locations where driving\
  \ tests are conducted (or the abolition of individual test centres) would therefore\
  \ only be possible if the Regulation on test centres for drivers of motor vehicles,\
  \ signed and issued by the Minister responsible for transport, is amended.\nIn accordance\
  \ with the provisions of the Drivers Act and the by-laws issued on its basis, the\
  \ theoretical part of the test is conducted at a test centre as a territorial branch\
  \ of the Public Agency for Transport Safety.\nThe computerised administration of\
  \ the theoretical part of the test (e-checking) is provided for in the Regulation\
  \ on the driving test, which entered into force on 4 May 2013. Article 7 of the\
  \ Regulation provides that the theoretical part of the test will be administered\
  \ by computer (e-checking), and that individual test centres will be required to\
  \ comply with the prescribed technical and security requirements in order to use\
  \ this type of checking. The computer applications that will enable the e-testing\
  \ of the theoretical knowledge are expected to be provided and ready for use in\
  \ the next year.\nThe Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning, together\
  \ with the Public Agency for Transport Safety of the Republic of Slovenia, will\
  \ analyse the functioning of the test centres and examine the possibilities for\
  \ streamlining the work, provided that this does not worsen the conditions for the\
  \ candidate wishing to take and pass the driving test.\n The competence of the Minister\
  \ responsible for transport to issue regulations in the field of training of candidates\
  \ and the conduct of driving tests is laid down in Article 14 of the Law on Drivers.\
  \ The Minister responsible for transport may, on the basis of this provision, prescribe\
  \ a different training programme and also limit or extend the duration of the practical\
  \ part of the driving test. An amendment to the Drivers Act is currently being prepared\
  \ by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning. If the amendment of the\
  \ Law also affects these areas, it will also be necessary to amend the by-laws regulating\
  \ these areas. It is worth noting that extending the driving test may impose an\
  \ additional financial burden on both the driver candidate and the Public Agency\
  \ for Transport Safety (increase in the number of staff at the test centres, etc.).\n\
  \ 5. The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, at its 13th regular session\
  \ this year, adopted the Resolution on the National Road Traffic Safety Programme\
  \ for the period 2013 to 2022, which is a strategic document addressing road traffic\
  \ safety policy and the most technically challenging and safety-transparent problems\
  \ in the field of road traffic safety in the Republic of Slovenia for the period\
  \ 2013 to 2022. The document therefore sets out the priorities and fundamental objectives\
  \ for ensuring greater road traffic safety over a ten-year period. Based on the\
  \ European Road Safety Action Plan and the road safety policy guidelines, the European\
  \ Union aims to halve the number of road deaths in the period 2011-2020, which is\
  \ also reflected in the national programme, which foresees that the number of road\
  \ deaths in 2022 should be no more than 70 and the number of seriously injured no\
  \ more than 430.\n "
response date: 2013-09-18
response due date: null
sent date: 2013-07-15
title: Against centralisation of driving test centres
upvotes: 22
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/4855
