Area: Javna uprava
Competent authority: Policija
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 151
Initiative accepted and completed: '2013-08-08'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-06-19'
Initiative published: '2013-06-19'
Initiative submitted: '2013-06-17'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of the Interior -\
  \ Police The introduction of POS terminals as a means of payment in modern society\
  \ is a necessity, as people no longer carry cash or only small amounts of cash for\
  \ security reasons. The Police have also faced this fact and in 2012 the Police\
  \ and the expert services of the Ministry of Interior and Home Affairs considered\
  \ the possibility of introducing POS terminals for the payment of fines in the Police.\
  \ On 20 July 2012, a document No 224-279/2012/3 (212-07) was prepared on the possibility\
  \ of introducing POS terminals, which was submitted to the then State Secretary\
  \ of the MoI. The document identified the advantages as well as the disadvantages\
  \ and the financial, organisational and technical aspects of the introduction of\
  \ POS terminals.On 13 March 2013, the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,\
  \ no. 21/2013 was published on 13.13.2013, the Act on Amendments and Additions to\
  \ the Act on Misdemeanour (ZP-1H), which in Article 57c allows the offender to pay\
  \ the fine and the costs of the proceedings imposed in the misdemeanour proceedings\
  \ by means of a non-cash means of payment, and the misdemeanour authority may also\
  \ charge the offender for the costs of non-cash payment by means of payment cards.\
  \ The cost of non-cash payment of the fine and the costs of the proceedings may\
  \ be charged to the offender in summary proceedings for an offence by issuing a\
  \ payment order and in proceedings by issuing a decision on the offence.Based on\
  \ the Ministry of Finance's Explanatory Note No 450-98/2013/2 of 31 May 2013 \u02DD\
  Explanation regarding 15. On the basis of the Minister of Finance's opinion on Article\
  \ 15 of the Law on Amendments and Additions to the Law on Misdemeanours\u02DD, the\
  \ misdemeanour authority may charge the offender for the costs of non-cash payment\
  \ in the amount of the fee or in the amount of the actual costs incurred by the\
  \ misdemeanour authority for non-cash transactions, if it allows the offender to\
  \ pay by payment card. The offender shall be informed of the possibility of such\
  \ payment in the legal notice of the payment order, decision or order. At the same\
  \ time, the offender should also be informed of the amount of the costs of the non-cash\
  \ payment.On 4 July 2013, the Police, by document number 007-159/2013/9 (212-02),\
  \ again informed the expert service of the Ministry of the Interior of the Ministry\
  \ of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia about the possibility of introducing\
  \ POS terminals. The document suggested that the expert service should prepare the\
  \ appropriate grounds for the introduction (at least on a trial basis) of POS terminals\
  \ for the payment of fines, but given the state of financial resources this is unlikely\
  \ to be possible in 2013.  "
Text file: 151.txt
Title: Payment of fines imposed by the Police at police stations in cash or by credit
  card
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=151
