Area: Javna uprava
Competent authority: MNZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 736
Initiative accepted and completed: .nan
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2016-03-24'
Initiative published: '2016-03-24'
Initiative submitted: '2016-03-02'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reason: The Law on Weapons (Official Gazette
  of the Republic of Slovenia, No 23/05 - UPB1 and 85/09) provides in Article 8(4)
  that an individual may carry a weapon if he or she is in possession of a weapon
  certificate, or may carry a weapon if he or she is in possession of a proper weapon
  certificate and a document of identification issued by a state authority and bearing
  a photograph. Furthermore, Article 8a(1) provides, inter alia, that weapons documents
  shall be issued by the administrative unit in whose territory the person has his/her
  permanent residence. Article 11(3) provides that a weapons certificate authorises
  a person to possess and carry a registered weapon and is issued for hunting and
  sporting weapons with a validity of 20 years and for security weapons with a validity
  of 10 years. After expiry of its validity, the weapon certificate shall authorise
  the individual to possess the weapon without the right to carry and transfer it.
  It follows from the above-mentioned provisions of the law that a weapons certificate
  (unlike other weapons certificates) is a public document used as an identification
  document with an administrative authority or in legal transactions, and which makes
  it possible to identify both the individual who carries the weapon and the weapon
  for which the weapons certificate is issued. Weapon certificates are also one of
  the State''s instruments for exercising control. They are the means by which an
  individual demonstrates the right to acquire, possess and carry a specific weapon.
  The information on residence in arms certificates can be found in most arms certificates
  of other European countries, as well as in the European pass, which is the travel
  document for arms in the EU Member States and is provided for by Directive 91/477/EEC
  of 18 June 1991 on the control of the acquisition and possession of weapons.In addition,
  the abolition of the registration of the holder''s place of residence in the Weapons
  Certificate would result in the loss of its function as an identification document,
  as the holder would not be able to properly identify himself in legal transactions.For
  the reasons set out above, we consider that there are no grounds for the proposal
  to amend the Weapons Act as proposed by the applicant.'
Text file: 736.txt
Title: Proposal to amend the Weapons Act
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=736
