19 Ruling of the Constitutional Court No. up-20/93, 19 June 1997

22 Ruling of the Constitutional Court U-I-172/94 of 9 November 1994 (Odlus III, 123) and Ruling of the Constitutional Court U-I-226/95 of 8 July 1999 (Odlus VIII, 2).

Municipalities are financed by income from taxes and other contributions, as provided by the Law on Local Self-Government (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 72/93, No. 6/94 - judicial decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, No. U-l-13/94-65, No. 45/94 - judicial decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, No. U-l-144/94-18 and the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 57/94), and by income from taxes, duties, fees and other dues in accordance with special laws.

Provisions of the Law on Financing of Public Consumption (the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, nos. 48/90, 34/91-l, 30/92, 52/92 - judicial decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, No. U-l-55/92-17, the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, nos. 7/93, 43/93 - judicial decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, No. U-l-22/93-10), which refer to municipalities and the Decree on the Allocation of Income Between Municipalities and the Republic (the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 34/91-l) shall cease to apply on 31 December 1994.

(4) lf a request or initiative to test the constitutionality of an act from the second paragraph of this Article has been filed, the lawsuit shall be considered as having been filed within the prescribed period if it was lodged within 30 days of the serving of the constitutional court decision, in which the court declares that it does not have jurisdiction.

(4) lf a request or initiative for constitutional review of an act from the second paragraph of this Article has been filed, the lawsuit shall be considered as having been filed within the prescribed period if it was lodged within 30 days of the serving of the constitutional court decision, in which the court declares that it does not have jurisdiction.

21 Ruling of the Constitutional Court No. UP-20/93 of 19 June 1997. Also, Ruling of the Supreme Court II Ips 602/97, Ruling of the Supreme Court II Ips 143/98, as in Ruling of the Supreme Court II Ips 38/98).

Based on the ruling of the Constitutional Court in the fall of 1999, the National Assembly adopted the Act Amending the rtv Slovenia Act, which introduced a change in the method of collecting the license fee (renamed contribution therein).

10 Those interested will find more on this subject in the above-mentioned book Protection of Human Rights, pp. 216-220. Some further interesting legal viewpoints can be found in the ruling of the Slovene Constitutional Court from 1997, for the time being the only one dealing with the freedom of the press (Ruling No. Up-20/ 93, published in Odlus under no. 181 - cf. especially points 23 and 35-42).

2 On the web conference the visitors could give their opinion about the following questions: What, in your opinion, should Bajuk's government accomplish before the end of its mandate? What do you think about the support that the group of MPs of SLS+SKD-The Slovenian People's Party, under the leadership of Dr. Franc Zagožen, gave to the constitutional changes through which the proportional system entered the Constitution despite the result of the referendum and the decision of the Constitutional Court which speak in favor of the two-round voting system? Do you support the proposal of the government of RS to reduce the number of ministerial sectors? Do you approve of the publishing of the names of all who did not pay tax? What do you think about the fact that Milan Kučan and Jorg Haider declared that the AVNOJ resolutions were political issue?