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
n) human pharmacy

1. coordination and vocational direction of activities in the field of human pharmacy,
2. issuing of allowances for public pharmacies, branches of it and institutions specialized to provide health care equipment,
3. control of providing pharmacy service,
4. approval of service timing for public pharmacies, its branches and institution specialized to provide health care services,
5. organizing of providing emergency services in public drug stores,
6. control in public drug stores, in its branches and in institutions specialized to provide health care equipment,
7. making decisions concerning usage of reserves of drugs and health care equipment,
8. providing information to health care institutions concerning lack of quality of drugs and health care equipment, concerning suspension of drug registration and/or retirement of drugs and health care equipment,
9. deciding stimuli and complaints,

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.