TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACT, official consolidated version, (ZPLD-1-UPB3)

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1 The Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 62/2009 of 4 August Travel Documents Act (official consolidated version) (ZPLD-1-UPB3), Page On the basis of Article 153 of the National Assembly's Rules of Procedure, the National Assembly adopted the official consolidated version of the Travel Documents Act at the meeting of 15 July The Act encompasses the following: The Travel Documents of the Citizens of the Republic of Slovenia Act ZPLD-1 (the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 65/00 of 21 July 2000), The Act Amending the Travel Documents of the Citizens of the Republic of Slovenia Act ZPLD-1A (the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 98/05 of 7 November 2005), The Act Amending the Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1B (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 44/08 of 7 May 2008), and The Act Amending the Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1C (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 41/09 of 1 June 2009). No /09-4/1 Written in Ljubljana on 15 July 2009 EPA 448-V The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia Dr. Pavel Gantar, signatory the President TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACT, official consolidated version, (ZPLD-1-UPB3) I. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 A travel document shall be an official document intended for a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia (hereinafter citizen) to cross the state border and prove his/her identity and citizenship. Article 2 A citizen may have only one travel document of the same type. Article 3 A citizen shall have the right to exit and return to the state with a valid travel document if not otherwise stipulated by an international agreement. The authority competent for the control of crossing the state border shall allow a citizen who does not have a valid travel document, when his/her citizenship and identity are unquestionable, to enter the state. Article 4 Giving, selling or lending one's own travel document to another person, or buying or using someone else's travel document as one's own, or changing or erasing any data from a travel document is prohibited. Selling a travel document or taking someone else's travel document in order to secure any benefits or rights is prohibited. Article 4.a Personal database operators may copy travel documents only in cases provided for by law. Besides its holder, the travel document may be copied by notaries and financial undertakings carrying out financial services if they need the travel document to prove the identity of a citizen in a certain procedure. The terms "financial undertaking" and "financial services" are defined by the act regulating banking. Copying a travel document is also permitted on the basis of written consent given by the travel document holder. Upon copying the travel document, an appropriate mark shall be made on the copy to prevent the use of the copy for any other purpose. Further copying of the copy is prohibited. In response to an application submitted by the travel document holder, a personal database operator shall be liable to issue a certificate on the travel document copy indicating the purpose of the copy's use and the time

2 period within which the operator shall need the copy. The travel document holder may mark the copy with his/her signature. Keeping a copy of a travel document in electronic form is prohibited. II. TYPES OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORISATIONS FOR THEIR ISSUE Article 5 Travel documents shall be: passports, diplomatic passports, service passports, emergency passports, travel documents issued under an international agreement. Article 6 The competent authority for the issue of a passport shall be an administrative unit (hereinafter: competent authority). Without prejudice to the provision of the preceding paragraph, in cases of urgency (e.g. health treatment, illness or death of a close family member, exigencies of the service), a passport shall be issued by the ministry responsible for internal affairs. To a citizen permanently or temporarily residing abroad, who due to health or other justified reasons cannot return to the state, a passport may also be issued by an authority of the Republic of Slovenia abroad authorised to conduct consular affairs. Diplomatic and service passports shall be issued by the ministry responsible for foreign affairs. Emergency passports shall be issued by an authority of the Republic of Slovenia abroad authorised to conduct consular affairs. Article 7 (deleted) Article 8 (deleted) Article 9 Diplomatic passports shall be issued to the president of the Republic of Slovenia; deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia; members of the European Parliament from the Republic of Slovenia; the president of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia; the prime minister of the Republic of Slovenia and members of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia; the president of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia; the president of the Court of Auditors of the Republic of Slovenia; employees of diplomatic missions and consular posts and missions of the Republic of Slovenia abroad holding diplomatic and consular titles; employees of the ministry responsible for foreign affairs conducting diplomatic and consular affairs and holding diplomatic titles; heads of national delegations of the Republic of Slovenia; persons who, by decision of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, are posted to work in international organisations as officials holding diplomatic ranks in these organisations; and to diplomatic couriers and certain other persons, when this shall be in the interest of the Republic of Slovenia. Diplomatic passports may also be issued to close family members of employees of diplomatic missions and consular posts and missions of the Republic of Slovenia abroad; to the family members of persons who, by decision of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, are posted to work in international organisations, if they live in the same household; and to close family members of persons referred to in the preceding paragraph, when they are accompanying those persons on a mission abroad. Article 10 Service passports shall be issued to members of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia, employees of the ministry responsible for foreign affairs and employees of diplomatic missions and consular posts of the Republic of Slovenia abroad not holding diplomatic passports. Service passports shall also be issued to members of national delegations of the Republic of Slovenia and to employees of other government authorities when travelling abroad, or to certain other persons when this shall be in the interest of the Republic of Slovenia. Service passports may also be issued to close family members of persons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article when they live in the same household abroad. Article 11

3 An emergency passport shall be a travel document issued to a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia or a citizen of another EU Member State who has been stranded abroad without a passport. An emergency passport shall be issued to a citizen of another EU Member State when there is no diplomatic mission or consular post of his/her country, or there is no other representation of his/her country in the state where he/she was stranded without a passport. An emergency passport shall be issued to a citizen of another EU Member State only upon obtaining consent given by the competent authority of the state of which he/she is a citizen. Article 12 Travel documents shall be issued in a form prescribed by the minister responsible for internal affairs, in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs who also fix the price of travel documents to be paid to the competent authority by the citizen. Travel document forms and application forms for the issuing of travel documents shall be produced by an authorised undertaking or organisation selected by the minister responsible for internal affairs in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs, in accordance with the rules regulating public procurement. Travel document forms other than the emergency passport and travel documents issued under an international agreement shall be personalised by the authorised undertaking or organisation selected by the minister responsible for internal affairs in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs, in accordance with the rules regulating public procurement. The ministry responsible for internal affairs and the ministry responsible for foreign affairs, each regarding its specific field of work, when controlling the undertaking or organisation referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, shall have the right to check all documents related to procedures of production, personalisation and storage of the forms referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, along with the premises where the forms are produced, personalised and stored, as well as to verify whether the persons performing these tasks meet the following requirements for carrying out their tasks: they have reached the age of majority; they have not been, by a final judgment for premeditated criminal acts prosecuted ex officio, convicted of a final sentence of unconditional imprisonment for a duration of more than three months; they are not involved in a criminal proceeding due to a criminal act referred to in the preceding indent. Article 12a Transport of travel documents referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 12 of this Act, as well as applications for their issue, between the competent authorities or the ministry responsible for internal affairs and the ministry responsible for foreign affairs and the undertaking or organisation referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 12 of this Act, shall be performed by an undertaking or organisation registered for the transport of postal items in a way that ensures the protection, security and traceability of postal items. Article 13 The travel document forms shall be printed in Slovene, English and French, whereas, in areas specified by law, where members of Italian or Hungarian national communities live together with members of the Slovene nation, said forms shall also be printed in the Italian and Hungarian languages. Individual texts in travel documents specified by the legal acts and decisions of the European Union shall be printed in all official languages of the EU Member States. III. VALIDITY OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS Article 14 Passports shall be issued with a validity of 10 years. Notwithstanding the provision of the preceding paragraph, a citizen who has not yet reached 3 years of age shall be issued a passport with a validity of three (3) years, whereas a citizen aged between 3 and 18 years shall be issued a passport with a validity of five (5) years. A citizen who, within a period of five (5) years, loses, mislays or alienates two or more passports shall be issued a passport with a period of validity of one (1) year. After expiry of the passport from the previous paragraph, the citizen shall be issued a passport with a period of validity from the first or second paragraph of this Article if the passport was not lost, mislaid or alienated during its period of validity. In the case of any further loss, mislay or alienation of the passport, a new passport shall be issued according to the third paragraph of this Article. A passport with a period of validity of one year shall be issued to a citizen who, at the time of submitting a request for the issue of a passport, is unable to give fingerprints, as determined by Article 23 of this Act, due to temporary health reasons. The provisions from the third, fourth and fifth paragraph shall not apply if the citizen whose travel document has

4 been alienated can prove that he/she handled it with due care and reported the alienation as a criminal act to the competent authority. Article 15 (deleted) Article 16 Diplomatic and service passports shall be issued for the period of service due to which the holder is entitled to such a passport; however, the validity of these passports may not exceed five (5) years. Article 17 Emergency passports shall be issued for a period of validity of up to 30 days, or for the period of time needed to return the holder to the state of which he/she is a citizen, to the state on the territory of which the holder has registered his/her permanent residence, or, exceptionally, to the state on the territory of which the holder has registered his/her temporary residence. Article 18 (deleted) Article 19 (deleted) Article 20 No later than within 30 days of a change of permanent residence, a citizen shall submit the travel document to the competent authority to enter the change of permanent residence in the travel document. A citizen shall deliver the travel document to the competent authority no later than within 30 days, if: 1. he/she changes any personal data that is entered on the biographic page of the travel document; 2. he/she changes his/her permanent residence, and entering the change of permanent residence in the travel document referred to in the preceding paragraph is no longer possible; 3. the photograph no longer shows the true likeness of the holder; 4. the photograph is damaged or worn, or no longer serves its purpose for some other reason. Article 21 Irrespective of the period of validity of the travel document, its validity shall cease: 1. upon the cessation of citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia; 2. when there are no longer grounds for the issue of a travel document under Articles 9 and 10 of this Act. In the case under point 1 of the preceding paragraph, the holder shall submit his/her travel document to the competent authority, diplomatic mission or consular post abroad when served the decision on the cessation of citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia. In the case under point 2 of the preceding paragraph, the holder shall submit his/her travel document to the ministry responsible for foreign affairs within 8 days after the appearance of grounds under point 2. IV. TRAVEL DOCUMENT ISSUE PROCEDURE Article 22 Citizens must submit an application for the issue of a travel document to the competent authority in person. The application may be submitted by a citizen who has reached the age of 18, or a citizen who has not yet reached the age of 18 but has entered into marriage. For a citizen of less than 18 years of age or a citizen who does not have legal capacity, the application shall be submitted by a legal representative. Article 23 The submitted application for the issue of a travel document shall be made on the prescribed application form. The application of a travel document shall contain complete and correct data. The form referred to in the preceding paragraph of this Article shall contain the following data: 1. registration number; 2. surname and forename; 3. personal registration number, or date of birth and sex if the personal registration number has not been specified;

5 4. place of birth; 5. permanent residence; 6. citizenship; 7. date and place of the application submission; 8. surname and forename and personal registration number, or date of birth and sex if the personal registration number has not been specified, and permanent residence and signature of the legal representative; 9. type of travel document; 10. service of travel document; 11. signature by the citizen if he/she is able and capable of signing. With the application for the issue of a new travel document other than an emergency passport, the citizen shall enclose the old travel document and a photograph of the prescribed size showing his/her true likeness. The photograph shall be submitted in physical or digital form. Photographs in digital form shall be kept in an electronic database of photographs for personal documents for one year and can be used, upon request by the citizen, for the issue of his/her other public document with photograph that is issued by a state authority. A photograph stored in digital form that is kept in the records of a citizen's other issued public documents issued by the national authority and that shows his/her true likeness may also be used to issue a travel document, except in the case of an emergency passport or a travel document that is issued under an international agreement. The method of submission, storage and use of a photograph in digital form shall be determined by the minister responsible for internal affairs in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs. With the application for the issue of an emergency passport, the citizen shall enclose two photographs of the prescribed size showing his/her true likeness. On the application for the issue of a passport, a diplomatic passport and a service passport, two fingerprints shall be taken, in the prescribed manner, from the citizen, if he/she is older than 12 years, except in cases in which, due to health reasons, only one fingerprint can be taken or no fingerprints can be taken. An application for the issue of a diplomatic or service passport shall include data from the third paragraph of this Article, as well as data on the diplomatic or consular title and the function of the holder. A travel document shall contain the following data: 1. type of passport and country code; 2. passport serial number; 3. a photograph of the citizen; 4. surname and forename; 5. citizenship; 6. date of birth; 7. personal registration number; 8. place of birth; 9. sex; 10. permanent residence; 11. date of issue and date of validity of the passport; 12. the competent authority 13. personal signature by the citizen, if he/she is capable and able to provide one; 14. the data medium that stores the facial likeness and the fingerprints or the fingerprint of a citizen as biometric data. A diplomatic and service passport shall include data from points one to nine and eleven to fourteen from the previous paragraph, as well as the diplomatic or consular title and the function of the holder. An emergency passport shall include data from points two to six and eight, nine, eleven and thirteen from paragraph 10 of this Article, as well as a signature by the public officer who issued the emergency passport. Article 23a Travel documents may be submitted directly to the competent authority or by postal delivery. A citizen shall select the type of service upon the submission of the application for the issue of a travel document. A travel document for a citizen under the age of 18 or a citizen without legal capacity shall be served to the legal representative who submitted the application for its issue, or to another legal representative, if so stated by the legal representative upon submission of the application. A citizen aged 15 or more at the time of submission of the application for the issue of a travel document may be served the travel document regardless of his/her legal capacity, as long as the legal representative did not oppose this scenario upon submission of the application. The postal item containing the travel document referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be addressed to the person to whom the travel document is to be served. Upon the submission of an authorisation or the statement of an authorised representative on the existence of an authorisation in accordance with the law governing general administrative procedure, the travel document may also be served to the authorised representative. Service by post shall be affected when the citizen collects the travel document. If the citizen does not collect the travel document within eight (8) days of receipt of notification about the postal item to be collected, the travel document shall be returned to the competent authority by which it was issued. A citizen referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 6 of this Act shall be served the travel document at the authority of the Republic of Slovenia abroad authorised to conduct consular affairs.

6 Article 24 In the Republic of Slovenia, a travel document holder shall report a mislaid, lost or stolen (hereinafter: mislaid) travel document as such to the competent authority immediately, and if this not possible, not later than within eight (8) days of the date it was mislaid. The report shall contain the data specified under points 2, 3, 5 and 8 of paragraph 3 of Article 23 of this Act, indicating the type of travel document and a statement as to the circumstances leading to the loss of the travel document. The holder shall report the mislaid travel document as such to the competent authority immediately after his/her arrival to the Republic of Slovenia, and if this not possible, not later than within eight (8) days of his/her arrival, in the manner specified in the preceding paragraph. A citizen not residing in the Republic of Slovenia shall report the mislaid document abroad to the nearest diplomatic mission or consular post of the Republic of Slovenia abroad no later than 30 days after the document was mislaid in the manner defined in the previous paragraph. True information on the circumstances leading to the loss of the travel document shall be stated in the report on the mislaid document. For reporting a mislaid travel document, the provisions of Article 22 of this Act shall apply mutatis mutandis. Article 25 The competent authority shall decide on the application for the issue of a travel document within 15 days of submitting the application. The competent authority may require from citizens born abroad and not registered in the Central Register or the Register of Citizens of the Republic of Slovenia, whose citizenship and other personal data are yet to be established, to submit an extract from the Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths and evidence of citizenship; otherwise the time period within which a travel document is to be issued may be extended for a further 30 days. In the event that the competent authority doubts the reliability of the submitted data referred to in paragraph 3 of the preceding Article, the time period of issue of the travel document may be extended for the time period necessary to establish the reliability of the data; however, this time period may not exceed 60 days. Article 26 The authority to which the application for the issue of a travel document was submitted shall refuse its issue if/when: 1. a criminal proceeding has been instituted or conducted against the citizen who applied for the issue of the travel document regarding matrimonial matters or matters arising from relations between parents and children, for the duration of the proceeding, when so requested by the competent court; 2. the interests of state defence, stipulated by the law, so require when this shall be requested by the ministry responsible for defence; 3. the citizen has been sentenced to imprisonment at least twice for criminal acts of illicit production of and/or trafficking in drugs, counterfeiting money, smuggling, falsification of documents, illegal manufacturing of and trafficking in arms or explosive substances, illegal crossing of a border or territory of a state, human trafficking, terrorism, financing terrorist acts, recruitment of conscripts and persons below 18 years of age, sexual offences and other criminal acts connected with a foreign country, for which a penalty of imprisonment of eight (8) years or more is prescribed by the law when this shall be requested by the Police. Regarding the final judgement for criminal acts referred to in point 3 of the preceding paragraph, the court shall notify the competent police unit in the territory where the citizen has registered permanent residence, or a police unit on the territory of the seat of the court, if the citizen who filed the request referred to in point 3 of the preceding paragraph has no permanent residence in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. If any of the reasons referred to in the preceding paragraph occur after the issue of the travel document, the competent authority shall withdraw the issued travel document. No appeal against the decision referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be allowed. Article 27 The competent court, the ministry responsible for defence or the Police shall immediately notify the administrative unit in the territory where the citizen has registered permanent residence or the ministry responsible for internal affairs, if the citizen has no permanent residence in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia, about facts resulting in the cessation of reasons for refusal of the application to issue a passport. It shall be deemed that reasons for refusal of an application to issue a passport referred to in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article no longer exist if the court, the ministry responsible for defence or the Police do not renew their request after a lapse of one year of filing the request for refusal to issue the passport. Article 28 The ministry responsible for internal affairs shall decide on an appeal against the decision on refusal to issue a travel document or the decision on withdrawal of a travel document, passed by the competent authority or an authority of the Republic of Slovenia abroad authorised for consular affairs. The Government shall decide on an appeal against the decision on refusal to issue a travel document or the

7 decision on withdrawal of the travel document that has been passed at the first instance by the ministry responsible for internal affairs. Article 29 For the application of a citizen for whom the issue of a travel document was refused or a seized travel document was revoked, the court or the administrative authority that requested the prohibition of the issue may, for particularly justified reasons (death of a family member, health treatment abroad, urgent business), permit the issue of a travel document with a limited validity period not exceeding 60 days. V. RECORDS Article 30 Authorities competent for the issue of travel documents according to this Act shall keep and maintain special records on the issued travel documents (hereinafter: records). The records shall contain the following data: data specified under points 4 to 13 of paragraph 8 of Article 23 of this Act; diplomatic or consular title and function in the case of issue of a diplomatic or consular passport; photograph of the holder in digital form that cannot be read with biometric data reading devices; fingerprints or fingerprint and data on the hand and the finger; type of travel document; serial and register numbers of the travel document; data on service of the travel document; data on lost, mislaid and stolen travel documents; data specified under Article 26 of this Act. To ensure the security of legal transactions, data on the lost, mislaid and stolen travel documents referred to in indent seven of the preceding paragraph shall be published on the e-government single national portal, as follows: name of the authority that issued the travel document; serial number of the travel document; date of issue and validity date of the travel document; date when the travel document was reported mislaid. Records shall be kept by the competent authority for the period of five (5) years after the expiry of the travel document validity, other than data specified under Article 26 of this Act, which shall be destroyed by the competent authority after five (5) years of cessation of the reason for their keeping. Fingerprints or the fingerprint shall be kept in the records from paragraph 2 until the travel document is served. The competent authority shall also keep the records in the central computer of the ministry responsible for internal affairs. Article 30a If a citizen submits an application for the issue of a travel document outside the seat of a diplomatic mission or a consular post of the Republic of Slovenia in a country where encrypted electronic transfer of personal data is not allowed or possible, the personal data of the citizen referred to in points 2 and 3 of paragraph 3 of Article 23 and paragraph 8 of Article 23 of the Act shall be kept on and transferred over an appropriately secure and encrypted electronic medium until they are transferred into the travel document records; however, this data shall not be kept for more than 15 days after it is obtained. The provision from the previous paragraph shall also apply if a citizen submits an application for the issue of a travel document at a diplomatic mission or a consular post, but only when encrypted personal data transfer into the travel document records is not possible. As long as data is stored on an electronic medium from the first paragraph of this Article, the personal data of a citizen shall be protected in accordance with provisions regulating personal data protection. After personal data from the first paragraph of this article is transferred into the travel document records, the personal data on the electronic medium shall be destroyed. Article 31 Data contained in the records may be used by employees of the competent authority, the ministry responsible for internal affairs or the ministry responsible for foreign affairs when carrying out tasks within their field of work; this data may also be used by police officers when carrying out tasks stipulated by law, in the cases referred to in Article 26 of this Act, and by the competent courts and the ministry responsible for defence. Personal data held on the electronic medium mentioned in the first paragraph of the previous Article may only be used by authoried personnel of diplomatic missions or consular posts of the Republic of Slovenia. The image of the face of the travel document holder stored as biometric data, and fingerprints or a fingerprint stored as biometric data on a data medium may only be used to verify the authenticity of the travel document and to identify the travel document holder upon his/her crossing a state border.

8 Personal data specified under Article 23 of this Act may be used by an authorised enterprise or organisation referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 12 of this Act for the purpose of entering the data in the travel document form; this data shall be destroyed within 30 days of its use. Data on the register number of the travel document may be used by an authorised enterprise or organisation referred to in paragraph 12a of this Act for the purpose of confirmation of receipt of postal items referred to in paragraph 12a of this Act; this data shall be destroyed within 30 days of its use. VI. SUPERVISION Article 32 The ministry responsible for internal affairs and the ministry responsible for foreign affairs shall monitor the implementation of the provisions of this Act, each regarding its specific field of work. The inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia responsible for internal affairs shall monitor the implementation of the provisions of Article 2 and Article 4 and paragraph 1 of Article 20 and paragraph 2 of Article 21 and paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Article 24 of this Act. The Police shall also monitor the implementation of the provisions of Article 4 of this Act. The inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia responsible for internal affairs and the Police shall implement their competences from the previous paragraph as misdemeanor authorities. An enterprise or organisation referred to in Article 12 of this Act shall enable persons authorised for such a task by the minister responsible for internal affairs and the minister responsible for foreign affairs, each regarding its specific field of work, to control the premises where the production, personalisation and storage of forms indicated in Article 12 of this Act are carried out; it shall also make available to said authorised persons all the necessary documents related to the procedures and fulfilment of the conditions prescribed for persons performing the tasks of production, personalisation and storage of the aforementioned forms. In carrying out the control, the official referred to in the preceding paragraph has the right and duty to: order the elimination of established irregularities and shortcomings in production, personalisation and storage of the forms referred to in Article 12 of this Act within the time limit he/she specifies; order a person performing the tasks of production, personalisation and storage of forms referred to in Article 12 of this Act, who does not fulfil the conditions referred to in the second paragraph of this Article, to stop performing these tasks, and order a replacement of this person with another person fulfilling the prescribed conditions; notify the authority responsible for personal data protection if he/she establishes that personal data is being used contrary to the second paragraph of Article 31 of this Act; temporarily suspend production and personalisation of the forms referred to in Article 12 of this Act, and propose that the minister responsible for internal affairs commence procedures for the withdrawal of the authorisation for production and personalisation of the forms referred to in Article 12 of this Act, if he/she establishes that the irregularities or shortcomings referred to in the first indent were not eliminated within the specified time limit or that a company or organisation is not capable of performing the tasks to which it was assigned. VII. PENAL PROVISIONS Article 33 A fine between EUR 400 and EUR 830 shall be imposed on an individual who: 1. while already having a valid travel document, acquires another travel document of the same type (Article 2); 2. gives, sells or lends his/her travel document to another person, buys or uses another person's travel document as his/her own, or edits or erases data in the travel document, in the event that this act is without elements of a criminal act (paragraph 1 of Article 4); 3. in the report on a mislaid travel document, states untrue information on the circumstances leading to the loss of the travel document (paragraph 2 of Article 23 and paragraph 3 of Article 24). Article 34 A fine between EUR 125 and EUR 400 shall be imposed on an individual who: 1. pawns a travel document or takes another person s travel document for the purpose of securing benefits or rights (paragraph 2 of Article 4); 2. fails to hand over the travel document to the competent authority within the specified time limit after the occurrence of reasons for the cessation of its validity (paragraph 2 of Article 21); 3. fails to hand the travel document over to the competent authority within a specified time limit (paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 20); 4. fails to report the mislaying of a travel document (paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 24). A fine between EUR 400 and EUR 1,250 shall be imposed on a legal entity or entrepreneur for the offence of taking another person s travel document for the purpose of securing benefits or rights (paragraph 2 of Article 4). A fine between EUR 125 and EUR 400 shall also be imposed on the responsible person of a legal entity or the responsible person of an entrepreneur for the offences referred to in the preceding paragraph.

9 Article 34a A fee higher than the prescribed lowest fee, as determined in this Act, can be imposed by fast-track procedure for offences from Articles 33 and 34 of this Act. Article 34b A fine between EUR 4,170 and EUR 12,510 shall be imposed on a legal entity, entrepreneur or self-employed person for the offence of copying a travel document contrary to Article 4a of this Act A fine between EUR 200 and EUR 2,080 shall be imposed on the responsible person of a legal entity, entrepreneur or self-employed person, and on the responsible person of a government authority or the authority of a self-governing local community, for an offence referred to in the preceding paragraph of this Article. A fine between EUR 200 and EUR 830 shall be imposed on an individual committing an act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. The implementation of Article 4a of this Act shall be supervised by the national supervisory authority responsible for personal data protection. The Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1 (Uradni list RS [Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia], No. 65/00) includes the following transitional and final provisions: VIII. TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS Article 35 Within three (3) months of the entry into force of this Act, the minister responsible for administration, in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs, shall: 1. prescribe the forms referred to in Articles 7, 12, 23 and 24 of this Act; 2. prescribe the manner of keeping records referred to in Article 30 of this Act; 3. prescribe the procedure and manner of producing, issuing and cancelling travel documents, and prescribe the procedure and manner of approval of authorisation of the legal representative referred to Article 7 of this Act, as well as the transmission, storage, use, return and destruction of data under Article 23 of this Act that is used by the authorised enterprise or organisation referred to in Article 12 of this Act; 4. determine the price of a travel document to be paid by the citizen to the competent authority. Article 36 Within three (3) months after the entry into force of this Act, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, on the basis of a proposal by the minister responsible for foreign affairs, shall determine criteria for establishing the interest of the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of which a diplomatic or service passport may be issued. Article 37 Travel documents other than those that are issued under an international agreement and visas issued under the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1-10/91) may be used until the date of their expiry; however, this shall not be longer than two (2) years after the entry into force of this Act. Article 38 On the day of the entry into force of this Act, the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1-10/91) shall cease to have effect. The Rules on travel documents and visas and on the manner of keeping records of travel documents and visas (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 19/91 and 52/94) and the Rules on diplomatic and service travel documents (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 5/92) shall continue to apply, unless contrary to this Act, until the issue of rules based on this Act. Article 39 This Act shall enter into force on the fifteenth day following the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. The Act amending the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1A (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 98/05) includes the following transitional and final provisions: Article 27 Provisions of the Act related to biometric data shall not apply to travel documents issued under an international agreement, if not otherwise stipulated in such agreement. Article 28

10 Travel documents and visas issued in accordance with the current provisions of the Act may be used until their expiry. In accordance with Article 32 of this Act, prior to the expiry of such a travel document, its holder may request its replacement with a document issued in accordance with this Act. Article 29 Until their amendment or the issue of new regulations, the Rules on implementation of the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 10/01 and 100/03) and the Decree on criteria for establishing the interest of the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of which a diplomatic or service passport may be issued (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 58/01) shall apply, unless contrary to this Act. Article 30 Until computerised records on reports related to the circumstances of mislaying a travel document are established, a citizen shall report his/her mislaid travel document to the competent authority in the territory of his/her permanent residence, or temporary residence if he/she has no permanent residence in the Republic of Slovenia. Article 31 On the day of the entry into force of this Act, paragraph 3 of Article 153 of the Maritime Code (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 37/04 official consolidated text) shall cease to have effect. Article 32 Provisions of this Act related to biometric data shall become applicable after the regulations referred to in Article 29 of this Act are harmonised with this Act. Article 33 This Act shall enter into force on the fifteenth day following the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. The Act Amending the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1B (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 44/08) includes the following transitional and final provisions: TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS Article 6 Articles 3 and 4 of this Act shall become applicable after the provision of technical and technological means for the publication of data on the e-administration single national portal no later than 1 October Until then, paragraphs 5 and 6 of Article 24 of the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act shall continue to apply (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 3/06 official consolidated text). Article 7 This Act shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. The Act Amending the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act ZPLD-1C (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 41/09) includes the following transitional and final provisions: TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS Article 22 Within three (3) months of the entry into force of this Act, the minister responsible for internal affairs, in agreement with the minister responsible for foreign affairs, shall determine or harmonise the following: 1. forms from Articles 12 and 23 of this Act; 2. the method of submission, storage and use of a photograph in digital form from Article 23 of this Act; 3. the manner of taking fingerprints from paragraph 8 of Article 23 of this Act; 4. the manner of keeping records from Article 30 of this Act; 5. the procedure and manner of producing and issuing travel documents, as well as reporting mislaid travel documents, and the transmission, storage, use, and destruction of data (under Article 23) used by the authorised enterprise or organisation referred to in Articles 12 and 12a of this Act; 6. the price of travel document forms to be paid by the citizen to the competent authority. Article 23

11 Travel documents issued under the existing legal provisions and on forms determined by the Rules on implementation of the Republic of Slovenia Citizens' Travel Documents Act (Official Gazette, No. 84/06) may be used until their respective dates of expiry. Before such a travel document expires, its holder may apply for a replacement travel document issued in accordance with this Act. Article 24 Until the provisions are harmonised or until new provisions are published, the Rules from the previous Article shall be used, unless contrary to this Act. Article 25 The provisions of this Act referring to fingerprints shall enter into force on 28 June Article 26 The fifth paragraph of Article 23 of this Act shall enter into force when technical and technological means become available for using photographs in digital form from records of other public documents; however, this shall be no later than on 28 June Article 27 This Act shall enter into force on the fifteenth day following the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia.