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
f) territorial planning
g) education
h) sport
i) theatre
j) museums and galleries
k) enlightenment activities
l) libraries
m) health service

1. foundation of policlinics and hospitals with policlinics of II. category,
2. direction of register of health-care institutions,
3. issuing of allowances for providing of health care in these non-state health care institutions:
3.1 hospital premises, including stations of pharmacy services of first aid and hospital premises in the institutions of social services,
3.2 specialized institutions of ambulance care,
3.3 agency of domestic care services,
3.4 dialysis center,
3.5 policlinics,
3.6 independent arrangement of common examination and health care processes,
3.7 hospitals of I. category,
3.8 hospitals with policlinic of I. category,
3.9 hospitals with policlinic of II. category,
3.10 sanatoria for long-term patients,
3.11 geriatric center,
3.12 hospice,
3.13 psychiatric sanatoria, psychiatric hospital and centers for drug-addicted persons,
3.14 stomatology techniques, if region is not its founder,
4. making decisions about appeals against decisions of administrative leaders of health care institutions,
5. making decisions about obligation of health care institutions to provide health care for a person, that refused proposal for a contract concerning providing health care or in the case of avoiding this contract for the reason of change of specialized orientation of health care institution or working congestion,
6. providing representation, if it is necessary to provide health care in other state health care institution,
7. creation, foundation and administration of secondary health care schools,
8. collaboration on prevention programs,

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.