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Prime Minister’s press conference

At today's press conference, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, outlined the major resolutions and decisions adopted by the Government at its 27th regular session. He opened by saying that next week the Government would consider the supplementary budget, which is one of the frameworks and fundamental measures established by the Government to tackle the financial and economic crisis. He went on to add that the Government would outline the activities undertaken to deal with the crisis at tomorrow’s session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.
 

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The Government will respond to the deterioration of public finance with additional economic policy measures, which will have an immediate effect. The measures are aimed at addressing the structural shortcomings of the Slovenian economy and at maintaining the counter-cyclical nature of macroeconomic and fiscal policies. The proposed measures are designed to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis and to regulate areas in which structural differences are present.

 

The ministers in office adopted a resolution proposal for cooperation of external experts in drawing up regulations and other documents.  In accordance with the proposal, external experts will be invited to cooperate if the production of particular legislative solutions requires the knowledge and competence of experts in various disciplines, if the drawing up of documents requires particular knowledge which civil servants within a competent authority do not have, or if a document cannot be drawn up within the competent authority due to the urgency of the matter, unforeseen tasks or the scope of work.  With this proposal, the Government has specified the manner and form of cooperation between public authorities and external contractors.