Dear Sir or Madam!
In the current economic crisis, the pressure to cut costs in every sector is very important and means survival. Unfortunately, the removal of administrative burdens is happening more on paper than in the real world. Every industry is burdened with countless small conditions, forms, checks of something or other....Of course, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are diligently assisting in this and will find it difficult to support the complete liberalisation of the conditions for carrying out an activity. All these little conditions require a lot of time, effort and, above all, costs, which most industries find increasingly difficult or impossible to bear.
This time I would like to make a suggestion for one of the areas that I have recently seen in the public domain:http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/kako-uradniki-dodatno-sluzijo.html
The article does highlight the service of civil servants in the Department for Transport with the TPQ (Basic Vocational Qualification) examinations.
Here, however, the civil servants themselves have worked among themselves, as they have apparently been recruited by party affiliation to these commissions, which are the real cash cows for them. What civil servants do during or after working hours and whether things are compatible with each other should be decided by their conscience, the minister in charge and the anti-corruption commission. I would have a suggestion here to simplify and streamline procedures.
TPK - costs about €500, which means a few lectures and an exam consisting of a practical test and a theoretical test. Then there is the renewal of this examination every five years, which is done by having to go to lectures for 7 hours each year, so that it is 35 hours over five years. The training for the TPK itself, as well as for the renewals, is carried out by contractors designated by the Ministry. So far so good, but now comes the main point: the lecturers are almost exclusively employees of the same line ministry, the Transport Inspectorate, the two chambers, and some well-deserving, or rather retired, ex-officials of these institutions. Why these? Simply because the contractors do not dare to engage others, otherwise they would be the first to take away the hourly licence to implement, because they would quickly find something wrong or at least make life difficult. However, the Minister gives a special permission to conduct the TPK examinations, which is given almost exclusively by officials of the same Ministry, and that too exclusively by party affiliation.
So that was the background to it all. The affair is terribly expensive for the operators, but terribly profitable for the operators and the civil servants, as there are often 100 or more candidates on these courses. Now you can calculate for yourself how much profit is going into everyone's pockets.
 
I suggest:
1. That the appropriateness of this way of conducting the TPK be examined. I suggest that the entire TPK is carried out by driving schools that teach C,D;E categories as part of their programmes. In short, a system should be arranged so that a driver who passes one of the higher categories will automatically obtain TPK as part of the training. In the CPP course we would add some more content on transport on the tests and the CPP pole would contain an additional part which is the minimum required for obtaining a TPK. The driving test would take place at the same time before the driving test board as at present, and the elements required for the CPP would be added.
2. TPK renewals should take place once every five years, or when there are really big changes in the legislation, because this is also a yearly torture of people, collecting large sums of money and repeating more or less the same things, because there are not so many new things.
I know that there is a European directive behind this, the only problem is the way it is implemented in Slovenia, which is extremely risky and complicated in terms of corruption, precisely because of the involvement of state officials in the implementation.
This would certainly avoid the controversial activities of civil servants in line ministries who invent a system in order to make a fat buck in the afternoon, and certainly the integrity at stake here is compromised and the corruption risk is too great.
This would also give us uniform and low prices for the examination fee. The driving test would be administered by the driving test boards that we have, and the revenue would go directly into the budget instead of into the pockets of the organisers and the civil servants who work for them in the afternoon. For drivers, the test would be much cheaper and entry into the labour market much easier. For someone who is unemployed, it is too much of a cost.
If a doctor can graduate and do his doctorate in a civilian school, without the presence of civil servants, so could a chauffeur.