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Issues excluded from being the subject of referendums at the national level

Slovenia

Slovenia

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  • Adoption of international treaties
  • National sovereignty, national self-determination
  • Taxes and public expenditure commitments
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CONSTITUTION OF THEREPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA

(Adopted 1991; last amended May 2013)

http://www.us-rs.si/en/about-the-court/legal-basis/constitution/

IV. Organisation ofthe State; a) The National Assembly

Art.90:Legislative Referendum

(1) The National Assembly calls a referendum on the entryinto force of a law that it has adopted if so required by at least fortythousand voters.

(2) It isinadmissible to call a referendum:

?        on laws on urgentmeasures for ensuring the defence of the state, security, or the elimination ofthe consequences of natural disasters;

?        on laws on taxes,customs duties, and other compulsory charges, and on laws adopted for theimplementation of the state budget;

?        on laws on theratification of treaties;

?        on laws eliminatingan unconstitutionality in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms orany other unconstitutionality.

Comment

The NationalAssembly can call a referendum on the adoption of an international treatybefore the treaty is ratified. Once the treaty is ratified by law, the treatycannot be the subject of a referendum.

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