Area: .nan
Competent authority: EKO Sklad, MGRT, MOP, SPIRIT
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1172
Initiative accepted and completed: '2021-12-08'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2021-10-28'
Initiative published: '2021-10-28'
Initiative submitted: '2021-10-27'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from EcoFund - Slovenian Environmental\
  \ Public FundDear Sir,\r\nFirst of all, thank you for your suggestions and your\
  \ willingness to help. We would like to further inform you that we are aware of\
  \ the length and complexity of the procedures for obtaining incentives from the\
  \ EcoFund, j.s., and we have therefore taken an active approach to solving the problem.\
  \ As the EcoFund is publishing more and more calls for proposals and, as a consequence,\
  \ receiving significantly more applications than in the past, the procedure for\
  \ granting EcoFund incentives is in urgent need of an overhaul in order to speed\
  \ up, increase efficiency and simplify the process. Currently, the procedure for\
  \ granting incentives to the EcoFund is governed by the Environmental Protection\
  \ Act (ZVO-1) and, subsidiarily, by the General Administrative Procedure Act (ZUP).\
  \ In particular, the strict and rigid provisions of the ZUP in the form and signing\
  \ of applications, as well as in the procedure for supplementing applications, serving\
  \ administrative acts (including calls for supplementation), etc., considerably\
  \ prolong the procedures for granting the incentives in question. In line with the\
  \ above, we have already submitted several legislative proposals to simplify the\
  \ procedure for granting incentives to the EcoFund, j.s. Among others, we have thus\
  \ proposed new articles that would re-regulate and modernise the procedure for granting\
  \ incentives in the Law on Efficient Use of Energy (ZURE), the Law on Environmental\
  \ Protection (ZVO-1J), which were adopted last year, and the Law on De-bureaucratisation,\
  \ which is currently undergoing the legislative process in the National Assembly.\
  \ Our proposals have not been adopted in the relevant laws. However, the proposal\
  \ to simplify the procedure for granting incentives to the EcoFund, j.s. is currently\
  \ included in the draft Environmental Protection Act - ZVO-2, which has undergone\
  \ inter-ministerial discussion and was initialled by the SVZ on 29.11.2021, and\
  \ we hope that it will be adopted and that all the proposed changes will be enacted,\
  \ which would make the procedure for granting incentives to the EcoFund, j.s. more\
  \ efficient and user-friendly. You can read the proposal of all the new articles\
  \ in the draft of the HPA-2, which is published on the E-Government website, and\
  \ includes in particular: electronic submission of applications without a secure\
  \ electronic signature, simplified calls for completion, more communication with\
  \ customers via e-mail and telephone, data record links, fiction of service, etc.\
  \ Furthermore, we are actively updating our IT system to be able to process the\
  \ new way of submitting and processing applications.As regards your specific application,\
  \ the statement is not true. However, as a general rule, the subject of the Call\
  \ for Proposals 71SUB-SO19 Non-grantable financial incentives/assistances for electricity\
  \ self-supply installations is non-grantable financial incentives/assistances for\
  \ new investments for the purchase and installation of electricity self-supply installations.\
  \ A new investment is an investment that has not yet been completed at the time\
  \ of application and will be put into operation after the submission of the application\
  \ for the grant.Accordingly, and on the basis of the information provided by you,\
  \ we assume that you have made your investment before the submission of the application\
  \ (which is why you have been able to provide both the application and the bank\
  \ receipt for the invoice). As this does not achieve the incentive effect of the\
  \ new investment, such an investment cannot qualify for the EcoFund incentive. In\
  \ this context, we urge you to read the text of the call carefully for any further\
  \ investment for which you would like to receive a grant from the EcoFund and, if\
  \ you are unclear, to call our call centre, where we will be happy to assist you."
Text file: 1172.txt
Title: Automating the approval of grants from the ECO Fund
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1172
