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Prime Minister’s press conference

At today's 61st regular session, the Slovenian Government, alongside other resolutions, adopted the Regulation on the Provision of Energy Savings with End-users and took note of the information related to the floods that struck Slovenia between 22 and 26 December 2009. The Slovenian Prime Minister, Borut Pahor, and the responsible ministers first outlined a number of major resolutions, and Mr Pahor then answered a number of topical questions.
 

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At today's session, the Slovenian Government took note of information related to the floods, which struck Slovenia between 22 and 26 December 2009, and established that timely meteorological and hydrological forecasts made it possible to carry out appropriate preparations and to early activate civil protection, firefighters and other rescue services, along with the police, the Slovenian Armed Forces and public utility services. Consequently, protection, rescue and relief activities in the threatened areas were well-organised, rational and effective. The Government also gave special acknowledgement to all rescue workers and voluntary firefighters. At the same time, it ordered the Slovenian Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning to speed up the evaluation of the direct damage caused by the floods in housing, infrastructure and other facilities, and watercourses, so that it could start discussing the damage at the beginning of February 2010.

 

The ministerial corps today adopted the Regulation on the Provision of Energy Savings with End-users, to be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. This regulation is an instrument that lays down the minimum amount of energy saving to be achieved with end-users, types of energy services and energy-efficiency improvement measures aimed at achieving energy savings, the scope and mandatory components of energy-efficiency improvement programmes, as well as the time limits and the extent of reporting to be prepared and implemented by energy suppliers. For the purpose of this regulation, savings for suppliers of all energy products have been fixed at 1% annually. The regulation also lays down the amount of the contribution for improving the end-use efficiency of electricity and the supplement to the heat and fuel price aimed at improving energy efficiency.