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Solar power has seen the biggest growth of renewable energy sources in recent years. Solar energy is the cheapest and most accessible energy source for everyone. In Slovenia, solar power plants are regulated by regulations and laws relating to the production of electricity from renewable sources such as solar energy, wind, hydroelectricity and biomass.
The EU Blue Card allows highly skilled workers from outside the EU to live and work in any EU Member State, except Denmark and Ireland. EU Blue Card allows foreigners to enter and reside in the Republic of Slovenia, but it can only be obtained on the basis of highly qualified employment, therefore workers must have at least a university education.
As the title already suggests, a new Personal Data Protection Act (Slovenian abbreviation: ZVOP-2) is going to come into effect in Slovenia on the 26th of January 2023. This short note serves as a warning and highlights some of the novelties the new ZVOP-2 is going to introduce. Reader beware, that a new Consumer protection act also comes into effect on the 26th of January. We have already written about the novelties it brings in one of our previous notices.
As the title already suggests, a new Consumer protection act (Slovenian abbreviation: ZVPot-1) is going to come into effect in Slovenia on the 26th of January 2023. This short note serves as a warning and highlights some of the novelties the new ZVPot-1 is going to introduce.
The amendments of the Law on trade companies from September 2021 enabled the establishment of the limited liability company with symbolic minimum amount of the initial monetary investment of 1 euro, by the persons-citizens who have an idea for running a business, but they don’t have enough assets in amount of at least 5.000 euros founding capital, to start their own business.
Application of regulations on the storage of archival material in electronic form has been postponed until 1 January 2024, in accordance with the Regulation on the Amendment of the Regulation on Uniform Technological – Technical Requirements and Procedures for the Storage and Protection of Archival Material and Documentary Material in Electronic Form.
If a legal person wants to conduct business in the Republic of Slovenia it will have to sign in to the Slovenian tax register and therefore obtain a Slovenian tax number. Legal persons are entered into the Slovenian tax register either ex-officio by the relevant authorities based on data from the Business Register of Slovenia or based on the legal person’s application to enter the tax register, submitted to the tax office by a legal person on a special form.
When it comes to conducting business, Slovenia is not much different to other European countries. Taking this into consideration, a logical predisposition to conduct business is of course that a foreign person or legal entity opens a company in the form of one of the presented companies.