Area: Kmetijstvo
Competent authority: MOP
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 167
Initiative accepted and completed: '2013-08-12'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-06-27'
Initiative published: '2013-06-27'
Initiative submitted: '2013-06-27'
Response from the competent authority: RESPONSE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA ENVIRONMENTAL
  ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY The petition shows the petitioner's indignation or disappointment
  with the "bureaucratic" mentality and procedure of the officials at the Environment
  Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, according to which they are not supposed to
  assess the matter beforehand and determine from the very beginning whether the intervention
  is of such a nature as to have any impact at all on the state of the waters and
  the like. Although this is a criticism of the performance of the staff of the Slovenian
  Environment Agency, the petition is, in its essence, a criticism of the regulation
  which stipulates that a water consent must be obtained before any development which
  may have a permanent or temporary impact on the status of waters or the water regime
  is carried out (Article 150(1) of the Water Act). Under all the applicable rules,
  the officials in charge of water consent procedures are not legally able to weigh
  and determine in advance whether a particular development is such that it cannot
  in itself have an impact on the status of waters or the water regime, but must carry
  out a full assessment based on various expert bases, including so-called flood studies.
  It is therefore not a question of the bureaucratic mentality of individual officials,
  but of the rules that they are obliged to implement, to act in accordance with,
  and to decide on an application on the basis of.The difficulties described by the
  initiative are recognised by the relevant public authorities, which is why some
  activities are already underway to amend the rules in order to make the work of
  both users of public services (investors, owners, etc.) and public officials easier
  by simplifying procedures and other rules.
Text file: 167.txt
Title: Mandatory time limits for issuing consents
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=167
