Area: Zdravstvo
Competent authority: MDDSZ, ZZZS
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 269
Initiative accepted and completed: '2014-01-22'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-12-18'
Initiative published: '2013-12-18'
Initiative submitted: '2013-12-13'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reply from the Ministry of Labour, Family,
  Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities The Marriage and Family Relations Act (Official
  Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No.69/04 - Official Consolidated Text 1, 101/07
  - US Decree No.101/07, 122/07 - US Decree No.122/07, 90/11 - US Decree No.90/11
  and 84/12 - US Decree No.84/12; hereinafter referred to as the "MHRRA") stipulates
  in the first paragraph of Article 107 that minor children shall be represented by
  their parents. If a minor child is to be served or communicated with something,
  it may be validly served or communicated to one or the other parent, or, if the
  parents do not live together, to the parent with whom the child lives (Article 107(2)
  ZZZDR). If both parents have custody of the child, they must agree on the child''s
  domicile and on which of them is to be served with parcels for the child (Article
  107(3) ZZZDR). Reply from the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia: Thank you
  for your initiative on the procedure for sending health insurance cards to newborns
  and we agree that the situation that arose when the parcel was picked up was "unlifelike".Please
  allow us to clarify the grounds for forwarding the health insurance card (hereinafter:
  the card) to the cardholder.The transaction with the card is regulated by the Regulation
  on the health insurance card (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No 39/2012).
  This Regulation provides, inter alia, that the card is a personal document which
  the insured person uses to prove that he/she is covered by health insurance when
  visiting a doctor or on other occasions when exercising his/her health insurance
  rights. Therefore, new EHIC cards cannot be sent in the name of the legal representative
  of the cardholder, nor can they be sent by ordinary mail. Such mail could be lost
  and untraceable. This would increase the possibility of the card falling into the
  hands of the wrong person and, consequently, the possibility of misuse. On the contrary,
  the entire route of a registered item from sender to receiver is recorded, thus
  ensuring traceability of the item.ZZZS has a contract with Post Slovenije for the
  distribution of items, which is governed by the Postal Services Act in the distribution
  and delivery of items. So far, despite more than 10,000 mailings per month, ZZZS
  has not been aware of any problems of insured persons in relation to the distribution
  or receipt of mailings. However, based on your alert, we will examine the procedure
  for the delivery of parcels in more detail and improve it as far as possible due
  to security constraints and as far as it is within the competence of the Institute,
  which is constantly striving to modernise and simplify the procedures for insured
  persons. Insured persons will be informed of the new possibilities through the media.Thank
  you for your understanding and best regards.'
Text file: 269.txt
Title: Handing the ZZ card to newborn babies
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=269
