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Prime Minister’s press conference
At today’s press conference, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, presented the key resolutions and decisions adopted at the 41st regular Government session.
Prime Minister Pahor first tackled the question of the draft amendment to the Personal Income Tax Act and stressed the Government’s intention, within the context of structural reforms in the field of social, pension and health security, to address changes in tax legislation, without, however, considering any additional burdening of work and knowledge. The Government today asked the Ministry of Finance to introduce into Government procedure those urgent amendments to the Personal Income Tax Act that do not modify tax classes.
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At today's session, the Government adopted the draft Act on alternative settlement of legal disputes, which opens the way for parties to legal proceedings to find alternative ways to settle disputes. At the same time, parties will have better access to appropriate legal protection and the possibility to choose among different settlement methods. The Government also adopted the proposed amendment to the Courts Act regarding modernisation of court organisation, management and administration. The Act provides, inter alia, for the establishment of a specialised section for trials of major cases involving organised and economic crime, and a judiciary budgetary committee tasked with analysing and coordinating the courts’ financial and human resources plans. Further, the authority to appoint the president of a court, except for the president of the Supreme Court, will be transferred to the Judicial Council.
As of today, press conferences on the website www.vlada.si following Government sessions will also be transmitted in sign language, as a response to the Government's commitment to offer equal opportunity of information and inclusion in social life to the deaf and hard of hearing. The representative of the Association of Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Slovenia, present at the press conference, thanked the Prime Minister.
Responding to questions on appointments in fully or partly state-owned enterprises, Mr Pahor said that he welcomed the enhanced responsibility of supervisory boards, which, in his view, is the only way for these boards to act with careful consideration and expected responsibility. "I am confident, he said, that it will eventually become clear that new standards have been introduced in human resources management policy. It is a good thing that supervisory boards may finally start doing their work and that politics will stop interfering with their decisions."