Restriction of movement between 21:00 and 6:00

Movement of people on the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia is temporarily prohibited between 22:00 and 6:00 with the following exceptions:

1. the elimination of immediate threats to health, life and property;
2. travel to and from work and the performance of urgent work duties;
3. access to and provision of emergency services;
4. delivery of food or medicines;
5. the travel of persons who have entered the Republic of Slovenia in order to transit to a neighbouring country or to their residence in the Republic of Slovenia.

Ban on gathering of people

A temporary ban on gathering is being imposed throughout the Republic of Slovenia.

Temporarily are prohibited all

• events,
• gatherings,
• celebrations,
• weddings and
• religious ceremonies.

Gatherings of more than ten people are prohibited.

The minister responsible for labour, family, social affairs and equal opportunities may also allow marriages and civil unions.

Mandatory use of face masks

Masks are mandatory:

• in all closed public spaces,
• on public transport,
• in open public spaces or outside if physical distancing of at least two metres cannot be maintained and
• in personal vehicles.

 Masks are not compulsory for:

• children younger than six years of age;
• pupils in primary schools and students in secondary schools but only when they are in their classrooms;
• preschool teachers and their assistants when they interact with children, primary school teachers up to and including the fifth grade when they interact with children or pupils;
• teachers at higher vocational colleges and universities if they lecture behind a protective barrier made of glass or a similar material;
• persons practicing individual sports if a distance of at least three metres is maintained;
• persons or members of the same household when taking a walk on green spaces or practicing sports or recreational activities if a distance of at least three metres is maintained at all times; 
• in personal vehicles when more than one person or member of the same household is in the vehicle;
• direct communication with deaf and hard-of-hearing people (if it is possible to maintain a distance of two metres) and Slovenian sign language interpreters.

Public passenger transport

This can be carried out in accordance with the normal timetables.

Ski lifts and ski resorts are allowed to operate for skiers who submit a negative COVID-19 test result or a certificate of vaccination or evidence proving they have already recovered from COVID-19 and for children under 12 years of age accompanied by their parents.

Education

Lessons can now take place on school premises for elementary school pupils, vocational secondary school students and final year secondary school students. For other students, distance learning is being carried out.

Exams, seminars and laboratory exercises are allowed for a maximum 10 people on the premises of the relevant faculties.

Restrictions in the sale of goods and services

The offering and sale of goods and services directly to consumers is prohibited with certain exceptions that are necessary to meet citizens’ basic needs. 

The offering and sale of goods and services within the group of exceptions that demand a test is permitted only if the employees are tested once a week for the presence of coronavirus using the HAGT (rapid test) or PCR method. Goods and services can therefore be offered and sold only by employees who have a negative test result obtained in the Republic of Slovenia. All employees must be tested, including those who do not have direct contact with consumers.

The following persons are excluded from mandatory testing:

• persons who provide a negative result for SARS-CoV-2 with a PCR or HAG test that is not older than 24 hours;
  • persons who have been tested during the weekend on a private basis, i.e. for skiing or visiting a relative;
• persons with a certificate of vaccination for COVID-19, proving that at least 7 days have passed since they received their second dose of the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine, 14 days since the second dose of the MODERNA, and 21 days since the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine;
• persons with a positive PCR or HAGT test result older than 21 days but not older than six months, and
• persons with a doctor’s certificate proving that they have recovered from COVID-19 and that not more than six months have passed since the start of their symptoms.
  • People who have not been tested for SARS-CoV-2 and became ill after the other members of their households who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 became ill will need a doctor’s certificate.

Consumers are not required to be tested for any other activity.

Activities permitted without the necessity of employees and consumers being tested for coronavirus:

• pharmacies,
• petrol stations,
• financial services,
• surveying and mapping services,
• post office,
• delivery services,
• chimney-sweeping services under the condition that only one provider is present at the premises where the services are performed; if this is not possible, one service provider and one person who is the user of the small combustion appliance can be present; chimney-sweeping services are not permitted in premises where a small combustion appliance is installed if this cannot be ventilated after the service is completed,
• construction works and uninhabited construction sites, houses or apartments where no contact with consumers can be ensured during the work,
• individual non-medical counselling and therapeutic services,
• personal collection of goods or food, with the exception of alcohol and alcoholic beverages, at collection locations where minimum contact with consumers is ensured, between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., whereby the consumption of collected food and beverages in public areas is not permitted,
• cleaning services and dry cleaners,
• workshops performing the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles and bicycles (tyre vulcanising workshops, car mechanics, car painting workshops, auto body repair workshops, bicycle repair workshops),
• other urgent services ensuring public safety and health,
• distance offering and selling goods and services to consumers as regulated by the act governing consumer protection;
• preparation of food and beverages for delivery purposes,
• preparation and serving of food and beverages in organisations that carry out catering activities for their employees or under their care.

Activities permitted with mandatory coronavirus tests for employees:

• trade activity as regulated by the act governing trade;
  • for the performance of trade activity as regulated by the Trade Act, i. e. trade activity carried out at sale facilities or outside them (travelling shops, movable stands, vending machines, distance trade or at the market), regardless of the type of goods and sales area.
  • This also applies to the valid exceptions of shops that mostly sell groceries, personal hygiene and cleaning supplies, shops selling medical and orthopaedic devices, shops specialised in selling products for children, shops with an area of up to 400 m2, regardless of the type of goods, markets, tobacconists and kiosks for the sale of newspapers and magazines and mobile stalls for the sale of agricultural produce and farm products.
• other service shops with an area of up to 400 m2 and production, maintenance and installation services.
  • The 400 m2 area limitation remains in place for service workshops, while there is no such limitation for production, maintenance and installation shops.
  • Production, maintenance and installation services comprise small-sized economy such as seamstresses, shoemakers, computer services, electricity and telecommunications services, water installation and heating installation, watchmakers, goldsmiths, joiners, installation technicians, photographers, car wash ...
  • This exception does not include construction services (e.g. plastering, roofing, outdoor building maintenance), because as per point 8 of Article 2 of the Decree, only construction works in or on unpopulated construction sites, houses or apartments are permitted, because a lack of contact with consumers can be guaranteed.
  • This exception includes car washes, regardless of their location. Therefore, testing is mandatory for all employees who work in the car wash industry. Employees who work in car washes must also be tested if the car washes are located within the scope of petrol stations or service workshops, where motor vehicles and bicycles are repaired and maintained.
• services of real estate brokerage;
• services of hygienic care (e.g. hair salons, cosmetic activity, pedicure, manicure, body care salons);
  • Employees must also be tested if they provide hairdressing services, medical pedicure and medical manicure, employees must also be tested in other cosmetic activities (make-up, manicure, artificial nails application, facial care), pedicure, body care salons (saunas and spas, solariums, massage salons);
• professional or business education and training of up to 10 people (e.g. tutoring, language schools, professional workshops);
  • The exception also applies to group education services for up to 10 persons.
  • The exception applies for tutoring, language schools, professional workshops of private music schools without concessions and those that do not carry out public school programmes, ...
• animal grooming services.

Accommodation, inns, bars

Accommodation capacities remain closed. Transactions with legal entities are permitted (e.g. a company can procure accommodation with an accommodation provider for their business partners or workers).

Inns, restaurants, pubs, cafés, confectioners, snack bars and bars remain closed. Food and beverages can be personally collected from designated takeaway locations from 6 am to 9 pm. The collected food and beverages cannot be consumed at the designated takeaway locations.

Recreation

Individual sport recreational activities and contactless sport exercises in groups with up to 10 people are permitted, but a social distance of at least two metres must be maintained. These activities can be carried out outdoors or in closed premises.

Ski lifts and ski resorts are allowed to operate for skiers who submit a negative COVID-19 test result or a certificate of vaccination or evidence proving they have already recovered from COVID-19 and for children under 12 years of age accompanied by their parents.

IMPORTANT: Due to the restriction of assembly in the Coastal-Karst statistical region, recreational activities can be carried out only by an individual or in a group, if it includes members of the same household.