Area: Public Administration
Competent authority: MGRT
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1046
Initiative accepted and completed: '2020-06-24'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2020-06-19'
Initiative published: '2020-06-19'
Initiative submitted: '2020-06-17'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of Economic Development\
  \ and Technology:The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the Law\
  \ on Intervention Measures to Mitigate and Eliminate the Consequences of the COVID-19\
  \ Epidemic (ZIUOOPE) at its session on 29 May 2020, which includes a voucher to\
  \ improve the economic situation in the field of tourism consumption. The voucher\
  \ is redeemable for accommodation or bed and breakfast directly with service providers.Article\
  \ 35 of the Act on Intervention Measures to Mitigate and Eliminate the Consequences\
  \ of COVID-19 (Official Gazette of the RS, No 80/20, hereinafter: ZIUOOPE) stipulates\
  \ that the service provider with which the voucher can be redeemed is the business\
  \ entity that was, on 13 June 2010, the supplier of the services to which the voucher\
  \ was redeemed. On 13 March 2020, the voucher provider was registered in the Business\
  \ Register of Slovenia (PRS) and entered in the Register of Accommodation Establishments\
  \ (RNO), which is kept by the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal\
  \ Records and Services, as an accommodation establishment operator and carries out\
  \ activities according to the Standard Classification of Activities - NACE Rev.1\
  \ under the codes specified in the law. If the accommodation provider, as a business\
  \ entity, is removed from the Business Register of Slovenia (hereinafter: PRS),\
  \ its accommodation establishment automatically becomes inactive. The establishment\
  \ is still entered in the Register of Accommodation Establishments, but it is registered\
  \ as an accommodation establishment without an operator. According to the ZIUOOPE,\
  \ such a landlord cannot accept vouchers.\r\nIt is up to the individual landlord\
  \ to register or de-register the landlord as a business entity in/from the PRS.\
  \ We would like to point out that in this type of case, it is primarily the case\
  \ of hosts who, in accordance with the Hospitality Act (Official Journal of the\
  \ Republic of Slovenia, No 93/07 - Official consolidated text, 26/14 - ZKme-1B and\
  \ 52/16; hereinafter referred to as 'ZGos'), are natural persons and carry out their\
  \ activity only occasionally, for a total of no more than five months in a calendar\
  \ year (150 days), and offer up to 15 beds to guests. In practice, this means that\
  \ these room owners can be registered in the PRS several times in a calendar year\
  \ (obtaining a new registration number each time) and can be deleted from it, i.e.\
  \ they are only registered in the PRS when they actually rent out rooms. The main\
  \ reason for this is the flat-rate monthly insurance contributions charged to room\
  \ owners, which amount to around \u20AC360 per year, i.e. \u20AC30 per month. They\
  \ repeat this every year and thus avoid paying part of the contributions for the\
  \ time when they are not registered in the PRS. This also imposes more administrative\
  \ obligations on the Agency for Public Legal Records of Slovenia (AJPES), the Financial\
  \ Administration of the Republic of Slovenia (FURS), the Health Insurance Institution\
  \ of Slovenia (ZZZS) and, last but not least, on the landlords themselves. The tourist\
  \ voucher measure is primarily being introduced to boost domestic demand, which\
  \ is crucial for the preservation and development of the activity and for the preservation\
  \ of jobs in the tourism sector after the COVID-19 epidemic.   "
Text file: 1046.txt
Title: Intervention Measures Act - change to a condition
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1046
