The question of spatial planning and building comprises one of the most complex and comprehensive areas of law. The fact that it has a direct or at least indirect impact on all spheres of life and human activity exerts an additional pressure on the legislative branch of government to ensure a transparent, understandable and time- as well as cost-efficient legal basis and regulatory acts.
The Republic of Slovenia stands on a very important milestone of a comprehensive renovation and upgrade of this normative corpus. Expert consultations and extensive observations and comments of core stakeholders as to the suggested arrangement, as well as guidelines for the future, show light on the shortcomings and the inappropriateness of the present arrangement. The latter are more or less present in the process of decision-making of any competent authority and participant in the process of getting the building permit, resulting in a decreasing safety of the investment.
A short history of legislative activities and the original intertwinement of the areas of spatial planning and issuing the building permissions serve as a serious reminder to the authorities that quick and particular solutions do not result in achieving the desired goals. Trends in Europe show that is more rational to raise the level of expertise and to ensure cooperation on the level of interdisciplinary ruling. Only on the basis of such an approach, it will be possible to implement certain measures to remove administrative obstacles and to raise the competitive edge of The Republic of Slovenia in the European as well as in the worldwide scale.
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