Area: Javna uprava
Competent authority: MF, MNZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 273
Initiative accepted and completed: '2014-03-05'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2014-01-09'
Initiative published: '2014-01-09'
Initiative submitted: '2014-01-08'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reply from the Ministry of the Interior, Directorate
  for Administrative Internal Affairs, Migration and Naturalisation: The registration
  or withdrawal of permanent and temporary residence is governed by the Act on Registration
  of Residence (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No.59/06 - UPB-1, 111/07),
  the primary purpose of which is to ensure up-to-date and complete records on the
  status, movements and accommodation of individuals. However, this purpose is only
  achieved if individuals are registered as residing where they actually reside. In
  accordance with its purpose, the Act provides that an individual must declare his/her
  permanent residence and change of address when he/she permanently settles in a settlement
  or changes the address of his/her dwelling, and must de-register when he/she permanently
  leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. An individual shall also register
  a change of address of permanent residence abroad on the basis of the Act on the
  Registration of the Right to Vote (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,
  No. 1/07 - UPB-1). The registration or deregistration of residence may be done in
  person at any administrative unit or local office in the territory of the Republic
  of Slovenia, diplomatic-consular mission of the Republic of Slovenia abroad, or
  by electronic means through the single state portal of the Republic of Slovenia
  e-Government with a qualified digital certificate. The information required by law
  must be provided; if the individual has more than one registered residence in the
  Republic of Slovenia, the address for service must also be provided.The address
  for service is intended for the service of postal items of state bodies and other
  legal and natural persons. It may be only one of the registered addresses of permanent
  residence or temporary residence in the Republic of Slovenia; therefore, the address
  for service is always the address in Slovenia at which the individual has a registered
  permanent or temporary residence and cannot be at an address abroad. In accordance
  with the provisions of the Law on Registration of Residence, a distinction must
  be made between residence in the Republic of Slovenia and permanent residence abroad.
  Registration of residence means the declaration of an address or the declaration
  of a change of address in the Republic of Slovenia at which the individual is actually
  permanently resident. The address of the permanent residence must be entered in
  the register of spatial units, which is verified by the administrative unit when
  the residence is registered. In case of doubt, it may also verify the fact of the
  individual''s actual residence at the address he/she is declaring. However, by giving
  up their permanent residence or changing their permanent address abroad, the individual
  is declaring that they have moved abroad or that they have moved from one address
  abroad to another address abroad and are simply providing the competent authority
  with their address abroad. The authority does not check the correctness of the address
  in the register of spatial units or in other official records, as is usual when
  registering residence in the Republic of Slovenia, nor does it check the actual
  occupation of the address, but simply registers it in the register of permanent
  residents and uses it as the address at which the individual can be contacted. Since
  the institution of service of process plays an important role in administrative
  and judicial proceedings, the proposer of the law has decided that the address for
  service of process may only be at an address at which the actual residence can be
  verified.The Republic of Slovenia is a registry-oriented country. The Central Register
  of Population is a computerised database of statutory data which, on the one hand,
  collects data centrally and, on the other hand, transmits it to eligible users.
  Therefore, when the competent authority registers a registration, withdrawal or
  change of permanent residence in the population register, information on the new
  address and the address for service is transmitted electronically to the Central
  Population Register. However, personal data from the Central Population Register
  may be obtained by authorised users, such as municipalities, the Tax Administration
  of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice, the
  Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Pension and Disability
  Insurance Institute, the Health Insurance Institute, the Statistical Office of the
  Republic of Slovenia, the Social Work Centres, the Employment Office of the Republic
  of Slovenia, etc. If an individual does not have a registered or temporary residence
  in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia because he/she has moved out of the
  territory of the Republic of Slovenia and has declared his/her permanent residence,
  then he/she does not have a registered address for service in the Register of Permanent
  Residents. Notwithstanding the fact that the individual does not have an address
  for service in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia, his contact with his home
  country is the address of his permanent residence abroad, which is available to
  all authorities using the Central Population Register. With regard to service, the
  rules governing the manner of service in each case must be observed. In your case,
  the provisions of the General Administrative Procedure Act, which provide that natural
  and legal persons abroad may be served directly or through diplomatic channels,
  unless otherwise provided for in an international treaty, at the address entered
  in the permanent population register and, consequently, in the central population
  register, must be followed.It follows from the above that all your data entered
  in the permanent population register are transmitted to the central population register.
  All users of the Central Population Register are therefore obtaining their data
  from a single database. This means that the authorities whose data records are directly
  linked to the Central Population Register have your up-to-date address, and you
  should receive their mailings at your new address. You can check your address details
  with a qualified digital certificate via the "Access to your personal data" service
  at http://ecrp.gov.si/. You also do not need to visit the administrative unit in
  person to make the change, as you can do it electronically via the e-Government,
  the single national portal of the Republic of Slovenia.'
Text file: 273.txt
Title: Declaration/declaration of permanent residence
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=273
