The Government Office for Legislation monitors and examines the influence of the acquis on the internal legal order and issues relating to the implementation of the acquis, and delivers its opinions and makes suggestions to the government and ministries.

Among other responsibilities, the Government Office for Legislation enters information on the legal acts of the European Union in the Register of Legal Acts in Force with the aim of ensuring timely and efficient review of the legal suitability of the transposition of Directives and the compliance of the national legal order with that of the European Union, which is done both during inter-ministerial and inter-office coordination of regulations and then again during the notification procedure. Particularly relevant during these procedures are the legally binding legal acts of the European Union, which have been addressed directly to the Member States (Directives, Regulations, Decisions of the Commission and the Council, and of the Council and the European Parliament). These are the legal acts of the European Union the publication of which in the Official Journal of the European Union L Series is obligatory.

On 1 January 2007, in line with an agreement between the Government Office for Legislation, the Government Office for European Affairs and the Government Secretariat-General, a new method was introduced for monitoring obligations based on an EU legal act, a national regulation, a decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia or an international agreement.

The basic elements of the new method are laid down in the Instructions for the drawing up of the Programme of the Work of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for 2007, which was submitted to all ministries and government offices on 27 October 2006. In line with paragraph two of Article 2 of the Instructions, the entry of legal acts and the obligations based on them into the Register of Legal Acts in Force shall be carried out by the Government Office for Legislation.