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Access to the status of public interest NGO should be simplified by removing the competence of individual ministries to decide on this - the decision-making should be centralised, and the condition of prior (2-year) operation should be removed.
In line with the purpose of the NGO Law (ZNOrg) to strengthen the contribution of NGOs to social well-being, cohesion, solidarity, democratic pluralism and sustainable development, I propose to amend the law to simplify access to the status of a public interest NGO by removing the decision-making power of individual ministries and centralising the decision-making, and by removing the condition of prior (2-year) operation.
The reason for this proposal is that individual ministries sometimes refuse or delay the granting of the status of public interest NGO, sometimes because of a garden-variety mentality, sometimes because of cronyism, i.e. fear of innovative practices that could be in competition with them.  The fact is that the role of ministries in this decision-making is often contradictory and completely unnecessary. Centralised decision-making would also contribute to increasing the number of NGOs covering cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary areas - bringing together different stakeholders from different fields, which has so far been one of the major shortcomings of the NGO and government sector in Slovenia, as identified in two recent studies: Health Inequalities, 2021 and the series of consultations on the research project "How to reach a new development concept in the field of building renovation", 2021.
Determining whether an NGO meets the provisions of Articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Law may also be carried out by another institution: AJPES, FURS or the Ministry responsible for the operation of NGOs.
At the same time as simplifying the process of obtaining the status, it should be possible to increase the ex-post control of the activities of such organisations, whether they continue to operate in accordance with Articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Law even after obtaining the status, especially in terms of the proper use of taxpayers' money obtained on the basis of the Regulation on the allocation of part of the personal income tax for donations.