Welcome, everyone. Today, the government passed two decrees
to help the agriculture sector. The first decree
talks about the help because of the loss of fodder in 2022.
This help is meant for farms with at least two animals per ha
and a stocking density of at least 0.9 that reported damage in 2022
and are registered as an agricultural holding.
The help is distributed in two categories.
In the first category, there are farms with 30-60% damage,
and in the second category, there are farms with more than 60% damage.
All together, we will distribute 4.5 million euros.
We decided to help because of high prices and the lack of fodder.
We don't want the farmers to reduce the number of livestock.
With the second decree, we will help the beekeepers.
The help will be distributed to all beekeepers
that have at least four bee families.
On average, they will get €10 per family.
The total amount is a little less than 2 million euros.
The Slovenian Beekeepers' Association committed
not to raise the price of honey, except for the inflation level.
This way, we will try to control inflation.
Thank you. Please.
Rok Šuligoj, TV Slovenija. Have you talked
with the agricultural and beekeeping organizations
and how did they react?
All the measures were accepted in consensus
with the Beekeepers Association, professional beekeepers
and organic beekeepers. We coordinated everything.
The help for livestock farms
was coordinated with the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry,
the Countryside Youth Association and the Farmers' Union.
Thank you.
Are there questions through Zoom?
Nobody applied. Thank you, minister. -You're welcome.
Goodbye. -We have another topic. One moment, please.
Go ahead, minister. -Hello.
The government has adopted basis for preparing normative solutions
in regards to misdemeanour proceedings
that were administered during the Covid 19 epidemic.
This basis shall be the framework of a normative solution,
which we are preparing on Ministry of Justice
in collaboration with Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Government Legislation Office.
The deadline for preparation of this basis is January 31st 2023.
The main emphasis of this solution that we can already communicate,
although the basis is not ready yet, are as follows:
We will make a legal basis for returning paid penalties,
costs of the procedures and costs for enforced recovery
in relation to those procedures that were introduced during the epidemic
based on invalid or unconstitutional legal basis.
The solution shall establish that current procedures should stop,
as well as procedures about community service
procedures of imprisonment, enforced recovery
and procedures of recovery of costs of criminal procedure.
The procedure of returning of fines will be governed of its own motion.
That means automatically. Affected don't have to act on their own.
The goal of this government is that the returning runs smoothly
and centralized. The affected shall automatically get a calculation,
they can dispute, but the payment shall also be automatic.
It will be modelled on restitution of overpaid advance on income tax.
Financial resources for the reimbursement
will of course be provided entirely
from the budget of the Republic of Slovenia.
Thank you. Go ahead. -Rok Šuligoj, TV Slovenia.
Do you have an estimate of how many resources will be needed?
When will people start receiving notifications?
When will all this be carried out?
What if there is an error, if someone is left out? Thank you.
The deadline for the preparation of a normative solution,
which will be a special law,
is January 31, 2023.
The preparation of the legal basis is going very well and very quickly.
The solutions for the legislative procedure might be prepared earlier,
but definitely by January 31 at the latest.
Then, of course, the law must be passed by the National Assembly
and it will be implemented as scheduled.
The minor offence authorities
that have introduced the minor offence procedures
will also carry out the calculations and send them to citizens
who were the subject of minor offence proceedings.
Then they will get an automatic calculation,
similar to income tax calculations.
They will be able to object to this calculation if there are mistakes.
In there is no objection, when the deadline expires
or when a replacement calculation is issued,
fines and costs will be refunded automatically.
Thank you. Go ahead. -What is the amount?
I'm sorry, I forgot to answer.
The fines imposed in these minor offence proceedings
amounted to a little over five million euros.
Voluntarily paid fines totalled around 1,700,000 euros.
This is also the estimated amount that will have to be paid back.
This is around 30% of all imposed fines.
We will have to add the costs of procedures.
Almost four million euros is the amount of fines
which are still in enforced recovery procedures.
When this law comes into force,
we will have a legal basis to stop these procedures.
Thank you. Any questions over Zoom?
No. Minister, thank you. -Thank you very much.
Thank you for your attention.