The aim of Government Office for Legislation website is to improve the flow of helpful information about individual legislative procedures, to provide interested members of the public with information about the most interesting legal projects our Office is involved in, and to offer all users, in particular researchers and students, access to some of the most useful websites connected with the acquis and those belonging to other international organisations, where everything from the most basic information on individual institutions to detailed legal studies and analyses of various legal areas can be found.

Thus you can gain access to the Register of Legal Acts in Force, which since 1 January 2007 represents the core of Slovenia's Legal Information System. The development of this system is a demanding and important project that our Office is involved in and we hope that it will contribute towards greater transparency of the work of the state bodies participating in the drafting and adoption of regulations, and thus towards greater legal certainty. The Register of Legal Acts contains data relating to regulations via which the Register is linked to other existing databases and data collections, thus offering complete information. Another special feature of the Register is that it also contains information about regulations that are still in the process of adoption and that it offers an insight into the phases of the legislative procedure. Moreover, the Register provides information about EU legal acts which, since Slovenia became a full member, constitute a part of our legal order. In this respect it goes beyond other similar collections of regulations, enabling users to obtain complete information about the legislation currently in force, as well as about planned changes.

Since joining the EU, Slovenia has firmly established in its legal order and implemented the fundamental principles of the acquis. The basic principle established by EU legislation of achieving uniformity of the legal orders of Member States has in Slovenia, as elsewhere, had different influences and dictated changes in legal terminology, in the work of state bodies and in the general role of Slovenia as a Member State. Despite the fact that Slovenia has achieved virtually all the goals relating to the harmonisation of our legal order with that of the EU and the implementation thereof, this exceptionally complex and demanding process was not free of problems or errors, which will have to be gradually remedied during the next phase. This website thus also offers a number of topical themes and answers to questions dealt with by our Office in relation to EU legislation and the fulfilment of our obligations towards the European Commission.

We hope you will find on our website something of interest to you or useful in your work. We will continue to endeavour to regularly update the website and supplement it with new content.