Competencies of Regional Self Government

List of the most important legislative Acts regulating competencies of the Banská Bystrica self-governing region

A) Act No 302/2001 on self-government of higher territorial units (Act on self-government of regions - SGR)
This Act regulates position of the self-governing region. SGR is ex lege a corporation. It is possible to change the area and the seat of the Region only by law. Authorities of SGR are the Regional representative body – regional parliament and the President of the Region. Obligations and limitations regarding territorial self-government can be imposed only by law or international agreements.

B) Act no 416 / 2001 on conversion of some competences from authorities of the state administration to communes and higher territorial units (so called Small Competence Act).
This Act regulates the process of conversion of competences originally executed by state authorities, to authorities of self-governing Communes, Town and Regions. Self-governing region realizes execution of public administration through its original (by the Act established) competences or as a transferred execution of the state administration.

Conversion of competences on self-governing regions

Conversion of competences on self-governing regions concerns these areas:

a) ground communications
b) rails
c) road transport
d) civil defense
e) social help

1. providing social care in institutions of social services (shelter of social care for children, where social services are provided weekly, for adults, where care is provided yearly and weekly, institutions of protective accommodation, shelter for lonely parents, stations of care services, institutions of nursing care, harborage, rehabilitation centers, shelters of social services for children, where social care is provided daily),
2. creation and publication of social service conception, conception of social prevention and social consultation in its area,
3. making decisions,
3.1 concerning providing care services and its costs,
3.2 concerning providing transport services and its costs,
3.3 concerning providing care in institutions of social services, that has been founded by region as its organization units, termination of these provisions and costs for these services,
3.4 concerning obligation of citizens to pay costs of provided social care, that was provided without legal reason, without payment or at lower cost,
3.5 concerning obligation of citizens to pay costs of transport service provided without legal reason, without payment or at lower price,
3.6 concerning obligation of citizens to pay costs of provided care in institution of social services in its area, if the care was provided without the legal reason, without payment or at lower price,
3.7 concerning obligation to pay costs of provided social care in institutions, that have been created in its competency as its organization units and the high of costs, if there is no common agreement,
3.8 concerning taking social service away, ceasing of it, increase or decrease the costs of it and refusing the payments,
3.9 concerning refusal of application of corporations and persons for registration that is needed for providing social care,
3.10 concerning cancellation from relevant register of a subject providing social aid,
3.11 concerning restriction of providing social aid,
4. making decisions on the appeal degree, where the fist degree decision has been made by institution of social services, founded by region as a budgetary or subscription organization,
5. making agreements concerning,
5.1 payments for provided social service provided by institutions of social services founded by region as its organization unit,
5.2 amount of more food provided by the institution founded by it as its organization unit,
6. administrates register of institutions,
7. making agreements concerning providing financial subscriptions to pay the costs for provided social service, prevention, consultation or selected activities of social defense, subscriptions provided to towns/units and purpose bounded subscriptions,
8. control of
8.1 quality of providing social service or social consultation, of social prevention or selected activities of social defense,
8.2 management of financial subscriptions given to the subject, that provides social care according to this act, control of towns/units and management of single purpose bounded subscriptions,
9. creation of measures to eliminate defaults founded during control mentioned above
10. creation and publication of conception of social services in its territory,
11. administration of evidence of institutions providing social services in its territory,
12. coordination of activities of towns/units and other corporations and persons connected to social care services,
13. organization of educational and recreational camps for children,
14. organization of public catering,

f) territorial planning
g) education
h) sport
i) theatre
j) museums and galleries
k) enlightenment activities
l) libraries
m) health service
n) human pharmacy
o) regional development
p) travel and tourism

C) Act No 446 / 2001 on property of higher territorial units
Conversion of property of Slovak republic to regional self-governing authorities took place concurrently with conversion of competencies to self-government regions. SGRs exploit these resources while exercising their competences.
This Act regulates management with the property held in possession of territorial unit. It also stipulates which parts of the state property are conversed to the possession of higher territorial unit.