The processes of Slovenian law-making are in many respects determined by the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly. The provision requiring, as an essential component of the introduction to a draft law, a presentation of the regulation of a legal matter in the legal systems of at least three European Union Member States, is one of the interesting peculiarities, but its purpose and implementation are relatively unexplored. The present thesis explores the understanding of the role of the legislative process and the socio-political context that led to the introduction of such a requirement and, as its central part, presents an empirical analysis of the presentations of foreign legal systems in draft laws adopted during the VIII. National Assembly. The empirical analysis outlines how the requirement has been implemented in practice in terms of the most commonly presented foreign regulations, the detail and extent of the presentations, and the various functions that the presentations perform in the draft law. The depiction of foreign regimes is also linked to the Slovenian legislator's perception of the foreign legal regimes of the EU Member States and thus also to the perception of its own legal order.
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