Text file: 514.txt
author: "\u010Disto\u010Da"
downvotes: 0
end consideration date: 2010-03-30
id: '514'
number comments: 9
number views: 5363
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of the Interior\nFirst of all, it should be\
  \ stressed that waste management is the responsibility of local authorities, as\
  \ far as non-hazardous waste is concerned.  As the petitioner has already noted,\
  \ the dumping of waste is regulated in a specific article of the Road Traffic Safety\
  \ Act, where the legislator has stipulated in Article 113(3): 'It is prohibited\
  \ to discharge, leave, deposit, dump or place anything on or near the road which\
  \ would obstruct the flow of traffic, endanger its safety, harm people, animals,\
  \ plants or pollute the environment. In particular, it shall be prohibited to wet\
  \ the carriageway or obstruct the drainage of water from it, to deposit snow or\
  \ ice on it, to erect bollards, chains or other devices to enclose parking spaces\
  \ or to prevent parking, to leave litter containers or other objects on it, to spread\
  \ loose material on it, to smear it with ointments or other substances, or to otherwise\
  \ pollute it.\" And it also provided for a fine for that offence in paragraph 8\
  \ of the same Article: \"A driver or other natural person who contravenes the provisions\
  \ of the third or fourth paragraph of this Article shall be liable to a fine of\
  \ EUR 250.\"  The proposal does not require further consideration, since, as stated\
  \ in the introduction, the regulation of other areas which do not form part of the\
  \ so-called road infrastructure is a matter for the municipalities, which regulate\
  \ this in their municipal ordinances.  By way of comparison, two recently adopted\
  \ ordinances:\n Ordinance on Public Order in the Municipality of Tabor (published\
  \ on 5 March 2010) and Ordinance on Public Order in the Municipality of Slovenske\
  \ Konjice (published on 30 December 2009).\n The Act on the Restriction of the Use\
  \ of Tobacco Products does not regulate this area.  As the draft legislation does\
  \ not indicate from which local environment the applicant comes, it is not possible\
  \ to verify whether a specific local community has regulated this area in its ordinance.\
  \   "
response date: 2010-03-30
response due date: null
sent date: 2010-02-26
title: a fine on littering and cigarette butts in the streets
upvotes: 32
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/514
