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first
address
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claims
to MPs
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of
teenage
girls
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cognise Kosovo as a sovereign country, despite a recent call by the European
OPINION
Parliament for the five EUmember holdouts
to do so.
Cautious
optimism
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Recent changes in the judiciary are a sign of positive
change. At the same time,
BUSINESS
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the
chance to reform
public
procurement cannot be
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missed.
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public procurement to prevent companies FOCUS
with vague
BUSINESS
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tenders,inexperts
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municate and engage with
the public. The Slovak judiciary might consider doing
Taxsame,
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says Dutch
AmSix law firms
active
in
bassador
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Van
Slovakia comment on leRijssen.
gislative changes adopted
pg 6
in 2014. They describe
changes to tax law as the
most controversial,
and
Presidential
partners
propose
some
revisions
As
Slovakia
takes
on the to
other laws.
European
Council’s rotating
pg 7
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investment cooperation
with Dutch companies to
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Prime Minister Robert Fico arrived in person at the Gabčíkovo hydropower plant on March 9 to announce that the
Photo: in
Sme
state was
taking over
controlgathered
of the facility.
Several
thousands
of people
at SNP Square in Bratislava on September 25 to protest against corruption
the healthcare sector.
Photo: Sme
Kiska
slams
health
Smer’s
Pellegrini
policy
of government
takes up
speaker role
PRESIDENT Andrej Kiska is dissatisfied with
the government’s
apPRIME
Minister
Robert Fico has
proach to
is openly
picked
a health
rising care
star and
of his
Smer
criticising
Minister
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Spectator staff
rallies intensify,
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fallout on
tivated
by Čislák’s statements
Slovak Radio
on March 7, that the CT
continues
scanner case, a major scandal that
forced the resignation of Čislák’s
predecessor
Zuzana
Zvolenská and
BY BEATA
BALOGOVÁ
speaker ofSpectator
parliament
Pavol Paška,
staff
and that prompted street protests,
was a “pseudo-case” and “business as
usual”.
statements
the
The Such
post of
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minister
personnel
that took state
place
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to the ministry’s
four months
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who in and
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think-tank,
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for European
When
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run-off
against Prime
on
science.
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Minister Robert Fico one year ago,
analysts
concerned
about
the
lic
anger were
over dubious
deals
in the
quality of the relations
between the
the
health-care
sector while
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office and
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organised
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number
of
ment. However,
Kiska’s
first yearon
in
opposition
deputies
culminated
office had until
now approximately
passed without
November
25 when
any major
public
clashes.
5,000
people
filled
the streets of
In his critical comments, Kiska
Bratislava.
listed
of issues
he believes
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protesters
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tenders;
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Spectator staff
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that opted
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judges supported
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Bratislava
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pute as well
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to Slovaks
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SLOVAKIA remains the world leader in car
production per capita, and planned investments
and the launch
of agreed
new models
mean
THE
ECONOMY
Ministry
to increase
it isbudget
likely on
to keep
thistwo
position.
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the
building
new reactors
at
another
carmaker,
Jaguar
Land
the
Mochovce
nuclearBritain’s
power plant
during
a
Rover is reported
to be considering
a new inSlovenské
Elektrárne
(SE) shareholder
vestment.
meeting
on November 21. Costs will balloon
“Slovakia
first
with the
produca further
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million
to €4.63
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2016
and
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bothInterfour
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than originallyofplanned.
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2014. The
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Republic followed
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118 cars
complete
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Economy
per 1,000
citizens.
Pavol
Pavlis
told the Hospodárske Noviny
Slovakia’s
carmakers
– Kiamoney,
Motors
daily,
referringthree
to already
invested
Slovakia, PSA
Peugeot
Citroën,
andblocks
Volkthousands
of people
working
on the
swagen
Slovakia – made
973,370
carssubconin 2014,
under
construction
as well
as 150
a decrease
14,348 are
carsfrom
compared
tractors,
halfof
of whom
Slovakia.with
987,718
cars
2013.
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Kia
While
SEmanufactured
will take out ain
loan
to cover
and PSA
revealed
last
year’s
resultscomplein Januextra
€830
million,
the
postponed
ary, ofthe
German
carmaker
tion
theSlovak
projectarm
also of
means
less money
in
Volkswagen
did so
in mid March.
the
state budget
as only
SE dividends
are used to
Volkswagen
Slovakia
(VWAtSK)
manufacfinance
completion
works.
the
sharetured ameeting,
total of 394,474
automobiles
in 2014,
holder
Enel agreed
to 14 measures
a drop
fromproject
426,313management.
manufactured in 2013.
to
improve
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State
takes
of Gabčíkovo
Harabin
outcontrol
of Judicial
Council
BY JANA LIPTÁKOVÁ
BY BSpectator
EATA BALOGOVÁ
staff
POLITICIANS can hardly keep convincing
YR
OMAN
CUPRIK
people thatBthe
biggest
problem
of health care
staffstate tolerates
is the lack of Spectator
money if the
murky deals and waste of public funds in the
healthcare sector, President Andrej Kiska said
CHARGES
relating
to to
thethe
abuse
of a close
in
his first key
address
parliament
on
person against
November
26 – withex-lawmaker
Prime MinisterVladimír
Robert
Jánoš
have sparked
a debate
about new
leFico
notably
absent. The
president’s
speech
gislation
onheels
domestic
violence,
as experts
came
on the
of a number
of changes
to
cite gaps
in theposts,
existing
law. that of the
senior
political
including
“There
are someafter
rules
are not
speaker
of parliament
thewhich
resignation
of
complete,”
Sylvia by
Gancárová,
a lawyer
Pavol
Paška provoked
a recent scandal
surwith Slniečko,
a centre
for abused
women,
rounding
overpriced
medical
equipment
and
told The Slovak
Spectator.rallies.
“On first
subsequent
anti-corruption
Ficosight
did
theyattend
seemand
to Kiska
provide
protection
for the
not
spoke
to a half-empty
victims,
butpresence
in real of
lifea single
they are
ineffecthouse
in the
cabinet
offiive.”Finance Minister Peter Kažimír, the Sme
cial,
dailyJánoš,
reported.who is also former vicechairman
of the parliamentary
human
“Understandably,
people in this case
rerights
committee,
resigned
a member
of
act
especially
sensitively
to as
profiting
from
parliament
for the
ruling Smer
on
illness
and human
misfortune,”
saidparty
Kiska in
March 4. to a series of anti-corruption ralresponse
came
in the
wake
ofin
a scandal
inlies. That
“There
are few
people
who
such a case
volving
transcriptions
ofand
audio
recordings
would
remain
indifferent
would
not be
published onand
theangry.
internet
in
disillusioned
ThisonisMarch
how I 3see
which he
appears
to verballythese
abuse
his wife
protests
and
demonstrations
days.”
andThe
issue
threats.
He also resigned
as Smer
protests
organised
by a number
of
party district
chief in
Prievidza.on Novemopposition
deputies
culminated
ber 25 when approximately 5,000 people
See
pg 5
filled the streets
of HOME
Bratislava.
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NEWS
March 23 – April 5, 2015
Court supported rejected judges
PRESIDENT Andrej Kiska
breached the fundamental
rights of selected candidates
for the posts of the Constitutional Court (CC) judges to
take up elected and nonelected public offices under
equal conditions when he
refused to appoint them last
July, according to a March 17
ruling by the Constitutional
Court’s third senate, the
TASR newswire reported.
The Court decided that
Kiska violated the rights of
judges Eva Fulcová, Juraj
Sopoliga and Miroslav Ďuriš.
The CC at the same time
overturned the respective decision of Kiska to reject the
three candidates on July 2,
2014 and obliged him to deal
with the issue again. Furthermore, the Kiska’s Office is
supposed to pay the three
judges the costs associated
with the court proceedings.
Back in July 2014, Kiska
decided not to appoint five
out of six candidates for
three vacant posts of judges
at the CC that were elected by
the Smer-dominated parliament. Following personal
interviews with the applicants, Kiska decided to appoint only one judge – Jana
Baricová. All five rejected
candidates subsequently
challenged the president’s
decision with the Constitutional Court.
The case of the two remaining judges – Ján Bernát
and Imrich Volkai – is being
dealt with by another CC
senate, which has not come
to a decision yet.
The decision is confusing
and does not explain when
the alleged violation of the
complainers’ rights occurs,
according to Kiska’s legal
representative and former
CC head Ján Mazák.
The most serious fact is
that it appears that actually
only one judge in the senate
made the difference, said
Mazák, adding that Kiska’s
complaint against possible
bias of senate member Jana
Baricová, who was personally involved in the appointments last year, was rejected.
Mazák pointed out that
Senate Chairman Rudolf
Tkáčik adopted a different
stance as he does not agree
with the verdict.
“There was a judge who
really lacked impartiality,”
Mazák said, as quoted by
TASR. “This means that one
vote in this senate decided on
the result of these proceedings. It’s a precedent that I
can’t understand.”
Police investigate Statistics Office
THE NEW website of the
Statistics Office (ŠÚ), sometimes fails to provide actual
statistics and information
promptly and users also say
that it is chaotic and frequently freezes.
The National Criminal
Agency has begun examining
the competition for the contract to build the website,
which cost €22 million and
was co-funded by the EU,
public service RTVS reported
March 13.
The Finance Ministry also
called on ŠÚ to return 25 percent of the funds, €5.39 million, which was allegedly
spent in ways irrelevant to
the project. However, ŠÚ refuses to pay, the office’s head
Ľudmila Benkovičová told
media March 17.
The ministry demands 25
percent of funds from all 16
projects of the EU’s operational programme informatisation of society checked by
the European Commission.
The investigation shows
similar results in all checked
projects and are related to
current legislation which
changed since those projects
were implemented, according to Benkovičová.
It is an “unacceptable
principle of retroactivity and
introducing of legal insecurity”, Benkovičová said, as
quoted by the TASR newswire, adding that during the
creation of the website
project nine inspections and
an audit of ŠÚ did not find any
violation of the law.
Head of the ŠÚ IT section
Štefan Tóth says that the new
portal functions without
problems.
European Commission
auditors pointed to mistakes
in competition rules which
could be beneficial for one
specific participant. The
Statistics Office only considered companies with an
annual turnover of €20 million or experts with individual publication activities, according to the Denník N daily.
Slovak Telekom and Microcomp Computersystém
won the competition, while
five firms participated. Tóth
previously worked for the
firm Vidos with Vojtech
Lukács of Microcomp
Computersystém company,
between 1990 and 1992.
Benkovičová told Denník N
that she does not know about
any personal connection
between Statistics Office
employees and the winning
firm.
Tóth did not answer a
question on his personal
connection.
“Do not answer such
questions, you are not a public
employee,” Benkovičová told
Tóth after the press conference, as quoted by Denník N.
Compiled by Spectator staff
from press reports
Slovakia copes with a
series of teen suicides
BY ROMAN CUPRIK
Spectator staff
ON the first day of her school
holidays Dominika, a 14-yearold living in Piešťany took her
own life with her father’s rifle
on 2 March. Even as the country’s parents were still asking
themselves why, Zdenka, a 16year-old girl living in Nové
Zámky, killed herself with a
pistol the next day, and Nina,
a 14-year-old, jumped from a
balcony three days later.
Three teen suicides in one
week is an extraordinary situation, say psychologists pointing out that the suicide rate of
children aged between 1-14 oscillates between zero and three
per year. And though it is too
early to say they are connected, it is possible the three girls
inspired one another, according to psychologist Eva Pálová.
“Young people have a
tendency to follow their idols
and it can happen that they
will copy even self-destructive
behaviour,” Pálová told The
Three teenage girls took their lives in one week.
Slovak Spectator. “Media
should not report about particular cases with such detail.”
In fact Slovakia has a low
suicide rate. In 2013 there were
just 2.5 suicides by teens aged
15-19 per 100,000 citizens. The
average of 33 countries in the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) is 6.9.
Furthermore, the number
of teen suicide attempts has
been falling. There were 10
children who were less than 15years-old and 68 people
Photo: Sme
between ages 15 and 19 that
tried to commit suicide in 2013,
the latest year for which complete statistics are available. To
compare, in 2011 it was 18
people under 15 years old and 91
teens between 15 and 19 who
tried to commit suicide, according to statistics provided
by National Health Information Centre.
Copycat suicides
There are documented
cases of suicides inspired by
widely publicised suicides of
notable figures. For example,
Marilyn
Monroe’s
death
caused by barbiturate overdose in 1962 was followed by a
rise in the American suicide
rate by more than 10 percent
the month after.
The phenomenon received
the name the “Werther effect”
linked to the series of suicides
that occurred in 18th century
Germany after the publication
of Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther.” Many
young men followed the example of the novel’s main
character who shot himself
over unrequited love. Authorities subsequently banned the
novel in some regions.
The Austrian Association
for
Suicide
Prevention
launched a campaign urging
media not to report suicides by
people who jumped in front of
trains in the 1980s. After the
media stopped reporting on
them, or reported them only
briefly, suicides halved, according to Pálová.
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HEALTH: Kiska sees ‘avoidable deaths’
Continued from pg 1
“How is it possible that in all EU countries the DRG has been partially or fully
introduced, and not here?” he asked in his
speech.
Slovak health care does not have
normatively introduced standard diagnostic and treatment procedures, which
are the norm in other countries, Kiska
said, adding that their absence often leads
to what he called “avoidable deaths”.
Kiska also called on the ministry, the
public health insurer and other public offices to put together the data they have at
their disposal and use it to evaluate the
quality and effectiveness of health-care
providers.
Experts on health care mostly agree
with Kiska’s reservations towards the
state of the health-care sector.
“The president posed questions that
the Medical Trade Unions Association
(LOZ) has been posing for a long time,”
LOZ President Peter Visolajský told the
Sme daily.
Čislák: we took steps
Čislák rejected Kiska’s criticism of his
department, saying that among other
things the ministry has helped hospitals
cope with debts that have accumulated
over the course of years. He called Kiska’s
speech a pre-planned media performance.
“Regardless of the statement by the
president, who in the health-care sector
has no responsibility or competencies,
the government will continue fulfilling
its programme statement in this sector,”
Čislák said as quoted by TASR.
Čislák also insisted that in this election term the ministry has dealt with the
salaries of doctors and nurses, started
dealing with the lack of general practitioners, reconstructed several hospitals
with the use of EU funds, and “abolished
nonsensical fees” patients paid to doctors.
Prior to becoming president, Kiska ran
the Dobrý Anjel charity organisation,
which works with mainly cancer patients. In his election campaign he
stressed health-care-related problems as
major issues that the government needs
to deal with, and pledged that he would
keep pushing for improvement.
Past scandals
The achievements listed by Čislák,
however, are not what has kept the public focused on the healthcare sector in the
past few months, starting in November
2014, when news of the flawed CT tender
broke. This forced the resignation of Zuzana Zvolenská as health minister, as well
as Renáta Zmajkovičová – a key Smer official, who also led the supervisory board
of the Piešťany hospital which purchased the device – as deputy speaker of
parliament. The scandal eventually led to
the resignation of Pavol Paška, one of
Smer’s top officials, from his longstanding position as speaker of parliament. Then state secretary at the Health
Ministry Viliam Čislák was then appointed as the minister.
The fall of Zvolenská and Paška did
not, however, calm public anger over dubious deals in the health-care sector, and
protests organised by a number of opposition deputies culminated on November 25 when approximately 5,000 people
took to the streets of Bratislava. Kiska reacted to the scandal by going to speak to
parliamentarians about health-care issues.
In December, another scandal followed, when the Sme daily and Transparency International Slovensko (TIS) reviewed contracts at four large state hospitals and found that they would pay external caterers nearly €81 million including VAT over the course of 10 years. The
overpriced contracts saw the heads of the
state-owned hospitals forced out, along
with the Health Ministry’s service office
head.
Smaller-scale corruption in healthcare made the news in February 2015,
when famous cardiac surgeon Viliam
Fischer was charged with taking bribes,
and a well-known Bratislava-based GP,
Peter Lipták, spoke about small informal
payments he receives from patients as
gifts, provoking massive criticism.
Conflict with the government?
It is the first time that Kiska has directly criticised the government and a
specific cabinet member, but that does
not mean the president and the government have been of one mind all through
the first year of Kiska’s presidency.
Kiska, however, has never directly
criticised the government when expressing opinions that differed from the prime
minister. That was the case in foreign and
security policy, Institute for Public Affairs President Grigorij Mesežnikov told
The Slovak Spectator.
“Now the situation has reached the
point where problems cannot be criticised from a general viewpoint any more,”
Mesežnikov said, adding that Kiska now
seems to be willing to contribute to solving the problems he sees in health care, by
calling on the government to present
some solutions.
If the government does not want to
enter into useless conflicts with the president, it should answer pragmatically, by
proposing concrete steps in the healthcare sector, according to Mesežnikov.
Though Kiska was unusually critical
towards the health minister, it does not
mean that he will now maintain a direct, critical tone towards the government in the year ahead of the elections. At
the same time, Mesežnikov does not expect the president to remain silent.
NEWS
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March 23 – April 5, 2015
Book publishers fear
distribution changes
BY RADKA
MINARECHOVÁ
Spectator staff
MORE than two dozen publishers signed a joint statement in early March expressing concern about alleged attempts by the J&T financial
group to control Slovakia’s
biggest bookstore chain, Panta
Rhei, and its biggest book distribution company, Ikar, in
order, they allege, to eliminate competition.
The publishers accuse J&T
of attempting “to monopolise
the Slovak book market”.
“We do not consider the
procedures Panta Rhei uses in
this process to be fair and honest as they bring arrogance and
dishonest practices into the
book market,” reads the joint
statement.
The publishers referred to
proposals concerning what
they say are inappropriate and
– for them – disadvantageous
market and trading conditions, as well as proposals to
distribute books exclusively
via Ikar, which is owned by
J&T.
Panta Rhei dismissed the
accusations as “the expression
of feelings”. The bookstore
chain stressed that it does not
have a monopoly in the market, merely a share of about 30
percent. Nor will closer cooperation with Ikar result in
the creation of a monopoly, it
added in its official statement.
“The market is undergoing
natural development and the
proposed changes are the result of standard efforts by Panta
Rhei to improve the operation
of its supply processes,” the
company told The Slovak
Spectator in a statement. It
added that its aim is to have
reliable logistics and to ensure
that there would be the same
broad range of books available
in all its shops across Slovakia.
It also rejected the claim
that it is owned by J&T, stressing that it is only a client of J&T
Banka, which has provided it
with an operating loan. The
Antimonopoly Office at first
told the Sme daily that it had
nothing to investigate, but
later changed its position. It
has now said that it will check
the structure of the company
and the areas in which it is
active, as well as its position in
the book market, Sme wrote in
its March 18 issue.
Daniel Kollár, head of the
Association of Publishers and
Booksellers in Slovakia (ZVKS),
says that the distribution proposals recently received by
publishers are not normal. According to him, the changes
may affect smaller publishers
who issue non-commercial
books in particular.
“Signing the commission
agreement sent to publishers
by Ikar will limit their in-
Some book publishers warn against a monopoly.
comes and they will become
more dependent on distribution,” Kollár told The Slovak
Spectator. He added that if
they do not sign it, they will
face problems placing their
books, which together with
other factors could contribute
to them going out of business.
Meanwhile, Culture Minister Marek Maďarič entered
the discussion. Though it is
true that the publishing, distribution and sale of books are
economic activities which observe market rules, “the book
market cannot be considered a
purely economic sector”, he
said in a statement, as reported by the TASR newswire.
In this respect, Maďarič
said that if there are any attempts to dictate “inappropriate and disadvantageous conditions which would threaten
their [publishers’] existence
and would eventually unify
the Slovak book market”, there
will need to be some response.
“The current situation
points to the need to adopt some
kind of book law,” the ministry
wrote, as quoted by TASR. Such
a law may, however, be adopted only by the next government, he added.
Photo: Sme
“We do not consider it
right to let one distributor,
who will subsequently be able
to dictate the conditions to
publishers on one hand, and to
booksellers on the other, take
control of the Slovak book
market,” the publishers wrote
in their statement.
Kollár told The Slovak
Spectator that the proposed
commission contracts contain
nearly no rights for publishers
and that they are disadvantageous and unbalanced for
them.
The publishers were horrified by these proposals, and
as a result the ZVKS initiated
meetings with Panta Rhei in
October and November 2014 at
which they expressed their
disagreement, Kollár added.
However, the bookstore
said that the changes to its logistics should bring “more effective operation on both
sides”.
There were two factors
which influenced the decision
to extend and consolidate the
cooperation between Panta
Rhei and Ikar. First was “the
high level of professional trust
which we have been building
since 1993”, while the second
was “the high level of personal
trust”, the company said,
Problematic distribution
pointing to the fact that both
Panta Rhei sent publishers Ladislav Bödök and Igor Mrva
a letter in September 2014 in serve on the statutory bodies of
which it informed them that it both firms.
was reducing the number of
direct suppliers it uses, and miDispute over premises
grating towards Ikar. Subsequently, Ikar sent a letter in
Distribution was not the
which it announced its basic only problem cited by the pubbusiness conditions and in- lishers. They also referred to
cluded draft commission con- the activities of Panta Rhei,
tracts with its general business which tried to get new
conditions, Kollár explained.
premises in the City Arena
According to the proposal, Trnava shopping centre that is
the bookstore plans to move the currently under construction.
distribution of books, cur- According to them, “in an atrently made by several suppli- tempt to obtain commercial
ers, only to Ikar. Moreover, Ikar space the company crossed the
wants to increase its commis- borders of ethical behaviour
sion to 53 percent of the cover towards its rival”.
Though they did not name
price, plus additional fees for
various bonuses, maturity of the rival, several media outinvoices, damaged or lost lets mentioned its recent disbooks. The publishers will also pute with bookstore Martinus.
have to pay more money for Its head Michal Meško wrote
better placement of their books on the company’s blog on Febin the Panta Rhei bookshops, ruary 23 that they wanted to
open a shop with café in the
the Denník N daily wrote.
shopping centre. Though they
had been discussing the opening with the developer since
2012 and even signed an agreement in 2014, the developer
terminated the deal in midFebruary 2015.
“The letter reads that the
project changes allegedly occurred in our planned
premises, because of which
our bookshop cannot be
there,” Meško wrote. “And that
regarding the actual state of
pre-lease they cannot offer us
any alternative space in the
shopping centre.”
Meško continued that they
received the information in
summer 2014 that they should
terminate the agreement, as
Panta Rhei wanted to sell
books in the premises. The
bookstore’s representatives
subsequently confirmed the
information they were interested in having a shop in City
Arena.
Panta Rhei denies the allegations.
“It is natural that Panta
Rhei, as the biggest network of
brick-and-mortar bookshops,
tries to get the best commercial premises,” the bookstore
wrote in a statement, adding
that for this reason it showed
an interest in space in City
Arena in Trnava.
According to the company, it is up to the developer
to whom it chooses to rent
space. It stressed it does not
consider competition over
quality premises to be “unfair
behaviour”.
Next steps
Since the sales of most of
the publishers who signed the
statement have increased in
the past few years, Panta Rhei
considers all accusations as
“tendentious pressure from
our competitors, trying to
harm us”.
The company told The
Slovak Spectator that it had
started intensive negotiations
with all its partners and is
seeking ways that will benefit
them all.
“As we wrote in our statement, during the past 20 years
we have always succeeded [in
finding a solution], and we
hope we will do it also now,”
the bookstore added.
Kollár said that the ZVKS
will continue its role as mediator of this problem and will
try to “deepen the communication between the publishers
and Panta Rhei or Ikar”. He is
convinced that they will
eventually reach a compromise over the issues.
The
publishers
also
claimed in their statement
that the only solution for a
functioning book market in
Slovakia is “the way of mutual
respect, dialogue and cooperation on the principle of mutual benefit.”
3
No decision on
garages passed yet
SOME 12 hours of discussion
on March 17 failed to resolve
the future of excavation and
construction plans around
Bratislava Castle.
Though an expert commission agreed it is important to protect the site and ban
construction equipment
from the area, what will happen to the Celtic architecture
found on the site as work on a
planned parking garage got
under way is still unclear.
Parliament, which initiated
the construction of the garages, says a final decision will
be made after further talks.
Experts consider the archaeological site on the
northern terrace of Bratislava
Castle to be of high quality,
and they called for better protection via fencing around the
area. They also agreed that the
excavations should be exhibited on the site where they
were found. The commission
subsequently recommended
to accelerate renovating the
findings under the castle
courtyard and the northern
terrace, the SITA newswire
reported.
“These negotiations were
certainly not easy,” said Daniel
Guspan, head of the Parliamentary Office, as quoted by
the TASR newswire, “there are
different opinions among laymen and also experts about the
exhibition of the excavations,
the construction objects or the
archaeological solutions of
some parts of the reconstruction of Bratislava Castle.”
The commission,
however, did not agree on
what to do with the planned
underground garages, SITA
wrote.
It is necessary to complete the underground construction at the castle,
Speaker of Parliament Peter
Pellegrini said. Only time and
mutual agreement will show
whether there will be garages
or something else, he added.
“It may have multifunctional use,” Pellegrini said, as
quoted by TASR, adding that
in case of need it may be used
for parking, and otherwise for
other purposes.
He also said that the parliament will accept some of
the experts’ recommendations, like adopting measures
for better protection of the
findings and their exhibition.
However, he considers the
proposal to halt construction
at the castle to be unjustified,
TASR wrote.
The activists from SOS
Bratislavský Hrad civic initi-
Work at Bratislava Castle was
discussed.
Photo: TASR
ative welcomed the outcomes
of the commission.
“It is important that the
artefacts on the working site
will be protected,” said Monika
Kozelová of SOS Bratislavský
Hrad, as quoted by TASR.
What next?
While there was no problem with preserving two of
the excavated objects, there
is still discussion over a third
located under the winter riding school, a replica of an 18th
century building which parliament wanted to use for
public events.
According to the latest
plans, excavation was set to
continue under the ballroom’s stage. During the day
it will be open to visitors,
while in the evening it will be
used for various events, the
Denník N daily wrote.
SOS Bratislavský Hrad has
made its own proposals, including turning the building
into a concert hall and ballroom, or into part of the Slovak National Museum or the
Slovak National Gallery. Another possibility is to create a
new museum there.
This idea was also welcomed by Austrian archaeologist Heinrich Zabehlicky
who, as the first foreign expert, confirmed in the past
that it was Roman architects
who built the constructions
at Bratislava Castle for the
Celts, Denník N wrote.
“The modern museum
would not be much different
from the plans for the
Baroque riding school,” Zabehlicky told the daily.
Zabehlicky visited the
castle together with two other
foreign archaeologists, Bojan
Djurić (Slovenia) and Balász
Komoróczy (Czech Republic).
Though they agreed that the
archaeological research met
all standards and that the
protection is appropriate, Zabehlicky told Denník N that
he does not know any similar
site abroad near which underground garages were built.
One of the reasons parliament opposed any changes is
that it would force delays, and
the riding hall and garages are
set for use starting next July
when Slovakia’s presidency
over the European Council
begins, Denník N wrote.
“As an architect with 25year experience I estimate
that the architectural change
of the project should not take
more than two months if the
investor knows what they
want,” Ľubomír Boháč,
deputy mayor of Bratislava’s
Old Town district, who is also
responsible for the building
authority, told Denník N.
According to him, the
garages should not be situated on the site, regardless of
what is found there and how
it is protected.
By Radka Minarechová
with press reports
4
BUSINESS
March 23 – April 5, 2015
Slovaks with HSBC accounts
EARLIER in March the Slovak
Financial Administration received a list of 25 Slovak clients of the Swiss branch of
HSBC bank. The list, from
which several names have
since been leaked, includes
names identical to those of
high-profile businesspeople,
athletes, doctors and models.
The amounts in individual
accounts were up to €3.5 million, Financial Administration
(FA) spokeswoman Patrícia
Macíková told the SITA newswire.
The leaked names include
Daniela Hantuchová, Igor
Grošaft and Ján Sabol.
While the tennis player
Daniela Hantuchová has not
commented on the presence
of her name on the list, Igor
Grošaft, co-owner of the SITA
newswire, as well as Ján
Sabol, a former state secretary
of the Economy Ministry during the first Mikuláš Dzurinda
cabinet, have denied holding
accounts at the bank.
Lawyers point out that
having an account with a foreign banks is not illegal.
“For example, athletes or
productive artists, who practically do not have any income from Slovakia but from
various events abroad, commonly open accounts abroad,”
Radovan Pala, partner of the
law firm TaylorWessing
e/n/w/c told the Dennik N
daily.
The FA is now checking
the list, while further steps
should be taken within the
Tax Cobra, within which the
National Criminal Agency, the
Financial Administration and
the General Prosecutor’s Office collaborate.
FA President František
Imrecze asked for the list in
mid February after involvement of Slovaks in the ‘Swiss
Leaks’, a case in which the
role of the Swiss branch of
HSBC in assisting people from
other countries to dodge taxes
and change money into
difficult-to-trace cash was revealed. The leaked list includes 60 people with links to
Slovakia.
Igor Grošaft owns through
NAMAV a minority stake in Petit
Press, the co-owner of The Slovak
Spectator.
Business environment index falls
BASED on the perceptions of
business people, the quality of
the business environment in
Slovakia continued to worsen
during the final quarter of
2014. They objected especially
to constant changes in legislation and an increasing tax
burden caused by the revisions to the income tax law.
The business environment
index, which the Business
Alliance of Slovakia (PAS)
prepares based on a survey of
business people, decreased by
1.71 percent to 61.2 points over
the last quarter of 2014. The
drop was less dynamic than
during the previous quarter
when the index fell 2.58 percent. PAS revealed the latest
data on March 12.
Out of all monitored
parameters of the index, the
item assessing comprehens-
ibility, usage and stability of
legislation decreased the
most. This reflected the
changes in several important
laws for doing business which
took place at the end of 2014.
The main change was the revision to the income tax law
changing the depreciation
scheme.
The low enforceability of
laws and the functionality of
the judiciary was the second
item with the biggest drop,
followed by inconsistent enforcement of the principle of
equality before the law. The
latter was ascribed to restructuring of the construction company Váhostav,
which was disadvantageous
for small and medium-sized
businesses in particular.
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Students to get more
experience with new law
BY RADKA
MINARECHOVÁ
Spectator staff
AFTER nearly two years of discussion, parliament has adopted a new law on vocational
training which should meet
the requirements of employers for more professional
staffers. It will carry out the
theoretical part of the education process at schools, while
practical training will be entrusted to companies. Despite
support from employers’ associations, there still remain
some weak points that, they
hope, may be removed after
further negotiations.
“Vocational education in
Slovakia has a long and quality
tradition which was interrupted to a certain extent in past
years, so we have not built it on
a green field,” Education Minister Juraj Draxler said, as
quoted by the TASR newswire.
He referred to the fact that
there was dual education in the
past, but it gradually faded
Students will work directly in firms.
after the fall of communism.
An important part of the
new law, approved by 80 MPs
on March 12, is the implementation of the dual education scheme into vocational
training, including the mechanism of verification of employers’ abilities to offer practical training, Education Ministry spokeswoman Beáta
Dupaľová Ksenzsighová told
The Slovak Spectator.
In practice, employers who
decide to join the project will
enter into learning contracts
with secondary school stu-
Photo: TASR
dents, who will undergo practical training at the company.
The system is beneficial for
students in that they will be
entitled to receive remuneration for their work, while the
companies will be motivated by
tax relief. The government has
allocated €26 million for this
purpose up to 2018. The level of
the granted tax relief will be the
same for all participating firms.
Employers who want to
join the system but lack the
required equipment and
premises will be able to arrange for part of the practical
training to be carried out on
the premises of a different
employer, the law stipulates.
More powers within the certification process for employers will be assumed by the
State Institute of Vocational
Education (SIOV).
The time spent in the
company may be from 60 to 80
percent of the total number of
lessons.
After being signed by the
president, the new law will
become effective as of April 1,
and become part of school curricula as of September 1.
“We consider the adoption
of the law positively, as a success of employers to legitimise
their efforts for the transformation of vocational education and implementation of
the dual education system in
Slovakia,” Roman Conorto of
the Federation of Employers’
Associations (AZZZ) told The
Slovak Spectator.
Foreign chambers in Slovakia also welcomed the law,
though they say it is not ideal.
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The carmaker ascribed the drop to the
launch of new production lines as well as
the volatile car market, with declines in
sales in some markets, notably Russia, affecting car production in Bratislava.
Kia Motors Slovakia near Žilina produced 323,720 cars, up nearly 3.5 percent
and PSA Peugeot Citroën in Trnava increased its production by 2.7 percent to
255,176 cars, a new record.
New models to boost production
All three carmakers introduced new
products at the annual Geneva International Motor Show held March 5-15, hoping that new or improved models would
boost car sales and production.
“2015 will be a challenge for Volkswagen Slovakia,” Albrecht Reimold, the
president of the board of directors of VW
SK said at a press conference on March 16.
“We are starting production of the new
Audi Q7. Thus we will become the first
plant in the world to start manufacturing
a diesel-driven plug-in hybrid car – the
Audi Q7 e-tron.”
VW SK is also preparing for production of bodies for the new Bentley
Bentayga SUV expected to be launched on
the market in early 2016, while the Bratislava plant will, as of late 2017, also assemble the Porsche Cayenne. While VW
SK has previously manufactured several
of its parts, final assembly has been done
in Leipzig.
VW SK plans to invest €1.5 billion
between 2012 and 2016, while investments between 2012 and 2014 amounted
to €939.3 million.
PSA Peugeot Citroën introduced a revamped 208 model in Geneva.
“Out of all Peugeot 208 cars, 90 percent are manufactured in Trnava,”
Peugeot Slovakia spokeswoman Ivana
Orviská told the Pravda daily, adding that
the remaining 10 percent are manufactured in the French town of Poissy.
Peter Švec, spokesman for PSA
Peugeot Citroën, specified that the Trnava
plant introduced two new things in
Geneva, with the second being a twotoned bodym the technology for which
was designed by technicians from the
Trnava plant, offered under the Black Top
brand. Clients can choose the roof and
covers of driving mirrors in black in combination with one of three colour tones for
the body.
But the biggest news for Trnava is that
the plant should manufacture Citroën’s
crossover model which should replace
production of the Citroën C3 Picasso,
Pravda wrote. While total investments
related to the new model are calculated at
€300 million, €80 million of this should
go to Trnava.
Originally the carmaker planned to
make the announcement in a ceremonial
way with the presence of Prime Minister
Robert Fico on March 6, but Fico was unable to attend and no announcement was
made.
Nevertheless, even plans for production of a new model and thus actual guarantees that the carmaker would keep its
labour force, have not calmed the tense
situation in the plant, and trade unions
are threatening to strike if they do not receive a pay raise.
Unions have asked for a 9-percent
salary hike, but the company’s management has thus far refused. They proposed
a one-off contribution to the employees
instead, which was rejected by the trade
unions. The negotiations are now being
led by a mediator.
Two years ago the company management agreed with employees on a 24month salary freeze, because of lower
production, for the years 2013 and 2014.
The third shift was preserved even though
production was below the plant’s annual
capacity of 300,000 cars.
This March several employees, mostly
working on the lines, told the MY
Trnavské Noviny regional weekly that the
working conditions were not good.
“People work a lot and at a tempo
which is unthinkable in France,” one of
the employees said, adding they have to
work also on Saturdays. “And then they
learn that they will pay €1,000 bonuses in
France.”
Korean-owned Kia Motors Slovakia,
which produces cars in Teplička nad
Váhom near Žilina, unveiled the sport line
of its cee’d models under the GT Line
brand in Geneva.
“We will manufacture it in three body
versions,” said Jozef Bačé, spokesman for
Kia Motors Slovakia.
Fourth carmaker?
While car market watchers rather see
space in Slovakia for more auto subcontractors, the media have reported that
carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is considering opening a new facility here.
“They are addressing construction
companies for potential designs for their
premises,” an anonymous source told the
Hospodárske Noviny economic daily.
“They are deciding between Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary,”
he added.
The question remains, however,
whether this will be a logistics warehouse, additional production site, or even
a plant for car production. Several things
hint that the second option is more probable. Owned by India’s Tata Motors, the
company is building at full capacity and
needs to expand.
Jaguar Land Rover officials did not
comment for Hospodárske Noviny, but
Slovak analysts point out that this region
is a logical choice, due to its low costs, developed network of suppliers, flexible and
highly motivated labour, and the country’s growth potential, plus other factors.
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of the sanctity of intimate
verbal
expression,
claiming
Pellegrini
said he would
be
that
“many
allegations,
halfguided
by tolerance,
respect
truths
and untrue
claims”
and openness
in his
newhave
parbeen
published
in the
media
liamentary
job, and
has drawn
about
case.a He
also said
praisethe
from
number
ofthat
ophe
has a heavy
heartwho
when
it
position
deputies
said
comes
to his wife,
they believe
thatwith
thewhom
new
he
is in the
process
of confrontdivorce.
speaker
will
be less
ational than Paška.
Release
bailfor
questioned
“I am on
ready
constructive cooperation,” Pellegrini
Jánoš
spent four
days
in
said,
as quoted
by the
SITA
custody
he that
was imrenewswire,before
adding
leased
bail,
whichculture
was set
provingonthe
political
in
by
the judgeand
at the
€20,000.
The
parliament
credibility
of the institution
are a against
task for
prosecutor
appealed
bothrelease
the ruling
the
but majority
Trenčín and
Rethe opposition.
gional
Court approved the deOf 136
present,
120
cision
of deputies
Prievidza
District
supported
Court
to letPellegrini
him go. as speaker. Miroslav
Číž wasthe
elected
to
Ivan Katrinec,
lawyer
replace RenátaIveta
Zmajkovičová,
representing
Jánošová,
a key wife,
Smersaidofficial,
who
Jánoš’
he respects
stepped
down
in court,
connection
the
decision
of the
even
with the
CT scandal,
init.the
though
he disagrees
with
deputy
post.the judge
“Wespeaker
hope that
Chairmanto Béla
has Most-Híd
taken all measures
enBugárthe
said
he hopes
that and
Pelsure
safety
of the wife
legrini would
respect said,
the opdaughter,”
Katrinec
as
positionby
and
make“By
it possible
for
quoted
TASR.
releasing
it to perform
its controlling
role.
Vladimír
Jánoš
from custody,
said ashe
the Pellegrini
judge has has
de facto
would listen
to arguments
of
sumed
responsibility
over
the opposition
but he expects
everything
Vladimír
Jánoš
the same
will
do ininreturn.
the following
“People often view parliaweeks.”
ment
only as aProsecutor
political
General
theatre,” Čižnár
said Pellegrini,
as
Jaromír
said he disquoted with
by thethe
TASR
newswire.
agrees
decision.
He
Pellegrini’s
pointed
out that appointment
on March 6,
came asina Prievidza
surprise, as
many
police
charged
expected
Culture
Minister
two people with interfering in
Marek
Maďarič
of Smerin
to contake
the
process
of justice
up
the
post.
nection with the case. According to unofficial reports, a
lawyerPaška’s
and a departure
doctor issued a
false
medical
certificate
Paškathat
resigned
asnot
speaker
claiming
Jánoš is
fit to
of parliament
the same night
testify
before police.
as municipal
elections,evades
over“When someone
shadowingprosecution
reports on itoutcriminal
is
comes to
of at
mayoral
races across
reason
least consider
cusSlovakia.
Fico,said
who
been
tody,”
Čižnár
in had
an interbacking
Paška
since
the
view with the Sme daily. CT
scandal broke, said Paška
resigned
to protect his family
Recanting testimony
government adopted legislation making it impossible to do
so in 2002, according to the
daily.
and said he does not see it as a
should, in
signThe
thatprosecutor
Paška is necessarily
this
have launched a
done case,
in politics.
criminal
prosecution
for false
The scandal
surrounding
testimony,
Čižnár
said.
Furthe CT device
has also
claimed
ther
would show
headinvestigation
of Zuzana Zvolenská
as
why
Jánoš’
wife truly recalled
health
minister.
her testimony.
The Piešťany Hospital of
“This did
not purchased
happen,”
Alexander
Winter
Čižnár
earlier told
thisSme.
year“The
a CTquestion
scanner
is
whether
the silence
was bewith
a price
tag approximneficiary
someone,
beately threefor
times
higher than
cause
don’t see
any other
similarI devices
purchased
in
reason.”
the Czech Republic. Medical
Group SK won the criticised
Avoiding
tender
after investigation
facing a single
competitor, the Nitra-based
is a way
for offered
police
firmThere
Meditecon,
which
officers
to avoid
their duty to
a price €300
lower.
Fico cases.
called The
Paška’s
dealWhile
with such
abdecision
the files
gesture
of a
used
woman
a criminal
statesman, but
which
rare in
complaint
lateris amends
Slovakia, opposition
Daniel
testimony
instead ofMP
recalling
Lipšic
claims
CT scanit
and she
doesthat
it inthe
a way
that
dal must
end withwill
resigthe
wholenot
testimony
be
nations only,
but it also
negated,
according
to should
Jozef
continue atthe
a level
of criminal
Šotkovský,
lawyer
cooperresponsibility,
TASR
wrote. Alating
with Slovak
Women
The opposition put Paška
liance.
in hot
water over
whatis they
Another
option
to
say are the
his whole
ties tosituation.
medical
derogate
companies,
especially
the
For
example, to
say that conMedical
Group, which
won the
trary
to original
testimony
CT tender.
They with
also an
claimed
abuser
hit victim
open
that Paška
not publish
his
palm
to thedid
shoulder,
not with
income
from
the Police
sale of shares
fist
to the
face.
therein private
fore
deal companies.
with it as misdemeanour, not as criminal act.
protests
PoliceThe
are
authorised to
investigate even such comMoreespecially
than 1,000
plaints,
whenpeople
it apgathered
in Bratislava
to her
depears
a woman
changed
mand Paška’s
resignation
on
testimony
under
duress, but
November
14 during
a rally
many
officers
do not do
so asorit
ganised
by independent
is
more convenient
for themMP
to
Alojznothing,
Hlina, following
a similar
do
according
to
protest in Košice in front of
Šotkovský.
Paška’s
house
wherejust
around
300
“Police
officers
shelve
people
gathered
on November
the
criminal
complaint
and do
11, according
to TASR.
nothing
further
in the case,”
Bratislava
a rally
on
Šotkovský
toldsawThe
Slovak
November
25
organised
by
Spectator. “Then it will be forHlina, Daniel Lipšic of opposigotten.”
tion NOVA, Richard Sulík of
Freedom
and
Solidarity
(SaS)
Expelled
from
the house
and Igor Matovič of the Ordinary To
People
Independent
fightand
domestic
violPersonalities
(OĽaNO)
swellence, police propose to extend
ing to
a gathering
5,000-strong,
the
power
of police
officers to
according
to
the
Sme
daily.from
to expel alleged abusers
their households from the
Commenting on the ver- current two days to a new limdict, Katrinec pointed out that it of ten days, Police PresidiJánoš faced domestic violence um spokesman Michal Slivka
allegations as far back as 10 told The Slovak Spectator.
Professionals dealing with
years ago. In May 2005, his
wife Iveta filed a complaint abused women welcome the
with Prievidza police, but the idea.
next day she came to amend
“Two days are too short a
her complaint, and claimed time for abused person to dethat she had fabricated the cide what to do,” Gancárová
whole attack.
said. “A woman has to decide if
“My husband forced me to she wants to divorce or sue her
tell police that I fabricated it partner and those decisions are
after an hour of persuasion and not easy for a woman who is
threatening,” Jánošová told psychologically and economSme. “I had to recant my testi- ically dependent on a man.”
mony.”
Police registered 312 exAs victims of domestic vi- pulsions in 2014, Sme wrote,
olence often recant their testi- which is too low a number, acmonies because of fear of or cording to Čižnár.
threats
fromof Parliament
abusers with
When police officers
come
New Speaker
Peter Pellegrini
Photo:
SITA
whom they share a home, the to the crime scene, the violent
attack is usually over and
neighbours pretend that they
did not notice anything,
Šotkovský
Along said.
with a law to limit
Gancárová,
who in
past
shell
companies
in the
public
was
a police
officer
dealing with
tenders,
the
protesters
also
abused
added
that ofdemandwomen,
a law on
material
reficers
do not use
this power
as
sponsibility
of state
officials
they
often committee
frustrated by
the
and aare
special
overpoor
of their efforts.
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the investigation
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versations
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and
politicians
and are
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covertly
abusers
their homes
recordedreturn
by thetocountry’s
SIS
after
48 hours service
as if nothing
had
intelligence
between
happened,
2005 and she
2006said.
mainly about
is, however,
the There
privatisation
andanother
sale of
loophole
in legislation which
state property.
complicates
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callmeans
for thean
endabof
used
personnominations
can be protected
political
in
from
violent
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healtha care
and partner.
the election
of
Supreme
Audit
Office
head
the Jánoš
case,
a court
decides
proposed an
by the
opposition.
whether
alleged
abuser
Moreover,
they urgedand
Fico
to
should
be imprisoned
how
stepalleged
down, according
to Sme.be
the
victim should
Ice hockey
player
Michal
protected
during
a criminal
Handzuš
Zuzana
prosecution.
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may issue
a ban
Melicherčíková,
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preventing
the accused
from
with theclose
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corrupcoming
to Crow
the house
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as
their
accuser. However,
well as ado
number
of actors,
also
victims
not receive
an offiaddressed
the crowd.
cial
document
saying this, because they are not partiCT proceeding,
scandal
cipants The
in the
according to Gancárová.
The Piešťany
hospital
had
“Even
when the
abuser has
announced
a tender
to a pursome
restriction,
such as
ban
chase
a CT Somatom
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on
returning
to their
home,
AS produced
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the
victim by
does
not in
know
for roughly
€1 the
million
about
it because
court with
does
VAT; deliver
however,
officials
not
its after
decision
to
from theGancárová
ruling Smer
party took
them,”
said.
control over the hospital following New
the legislation
2012 election, the
management cancelled the
dealThe
andMinistry
announced
a new
of Labour,
tender Affairs
for a more
expensive
Social
and Family
is
device, TV Markíza
reported
on
preparing
a draft law
on doOctoberviolence
30.
mestic
which should
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winning
bid by Medbe finished
by the autumn.
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at to
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too SK
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ations where there are redevice misdemeanours
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peated
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tender, Sme Labour
reported.
At the
household,”
Ministry
time of the deal,
Zmajkovičová
spokesman
Michal
Stuška told
headed
theSpectator.
hospital’s superThe
Slovak
visory
board. Slovakia adopMeanwhile
leadership
of the
ted The
several
measures
to hosimpital announced
on November
prove
the situation:
it trained
6 that they are
ways of
to
specialists
for seeking
these types
cancel the
contracttraining
with Medcrimes,
improved
of
ical Group SK. Yet, director of
regular
police officers and
the hospital Mária Domčeková
launched a hotline for abused
in an interview with Sme on
people on March 1, Čižnár said.
November 12, insisted that the
Slovak legislation is not
purchase came after a legitimbad in itself, but the rules are
ate tender.
overseen by incompetent or
In an unexpected turn, the
poorly
trained
people,
authorised representative of
Gancárová said. Police ofMedical Group SK, Juraj Koval,
ficers, prosecutors and judges
sacked its director Erika Bilá for
often
downplay the seriouswhat he called damaging the
ness
of
suchreputation.
cases, which
could
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said.
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23 – April
December
1 – 5,
7, 2015
2014
5
Recognise
There
is stillreality,
a long
and
roadKosovo
ahead
WAR
andHarabin
a brutal campaign
of
ŠTEFAN
failed in his
ethnic
leads
to in
a
last shotcleansing
at keeping
power
major
refugeejudiciary
crisis. Global
the Slovak
after
powers
intervene
in attempt
judges on
November
25 said
to
quell
the want
bloodshed
they
do not
to see and
the
implement
an over
imperfect
man who lorded
the secceasefire
stalemate.
Eventutor for much
of past decade
to
ally,
the Judicial
ground
have events
a seat on the
overtake
status
quo and
a
Council, the
which
oversees
the
new
countryofunilaterally
defunctioning
courts nationclares
independence.
A mawide. The
year 2014 is praised
by manyofas aUnited
year of change
in
jority
Nations
the judiciary,
proving
members,
butand
notisall,
recog-a
thorny
for Harabin
nise
theone
independence
of who
this
also failed
in his
bid to others
get renew
country
– while
elected inasdenying
Supreme
persist
theCourt
new
chairman
and departed as
reality
for years.
head
of theisJudicial
Council in
as
Israel
the country
well.
question,
but much as the
Harabin,
his
above
scenario true
appliestoto the
nature, East
did not
admit
Middle
of 1948,
sodefeat,
it corbut said with
instead
that Europe
“small
responds
eastern
defeats
always launched
of
2008 have
and Kosovo.
Slovakia
me to big the
victories”,
staterecognises
former,abut
not
ment
which indeed suggests
the
latter.
thatIthe
takestohis
role the
in the
is hard
figure
lojudiciary
very personally.
gic
behind Slovakia’s
contin“Have
I lost? What
are you
ued
reluctance
to recognise
talking
Harabin
the
plainabout?”
reality that
Kosovoreis
in has
an already
interview
asponded
country that
exearlierfor
this
year years.
after he
isted
seven
Insaw
rehis hopes
to return
to the
Sucent
days the
issue has
resurpreme Court
evaporating.
faced
as voices
from the
Harabin
indeed underEuropean Parliament
have
stands openly
the current
begun
callingsituation
for the
as a European
proverbialUnion
lost battle,
five
memwhile– atCyprus,
the same
time Rohis
bers
Greece,
rhetoric
indicates
an
unwillmania, Spain and Slovakia –
ingness
surrender
in the
that
havetostill
not recognised
larger
war.
Pristina as a sovereign capital
is so.
right in one thing.
cityHe
to do
JustAmong
becausethe
he was
removed
squeamish,
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the concerns
judicial that
steering
most
porwheel
does
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mean
that
tions of their own country
howsecede.
the courts
will
Some ofwork
thesewill
are
automatically,
even
legitimate,dramatically
and in the
improve.
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however
case
of Cyprus
the island
is
mean
that
there
is
now
already partitioned. Ina conthe
siderably
bigger the
chance
case
of Slovakia
idea for
is
letting
fresh
air
into
the
preposterous. The concept
country’s
court system
that
the country
must beand
on
for
the
atmosphere
of fear
and
guard against ethnic
Hunintimidation
by
garians
thatto be
arereplaced
secretly
transparency and accountabscheming to break away is
ility.
hallucinatory and leads to
Still, Harabin is far from
equally delusional public
being the sole problem of
policy.
Slovakia’s courts. As TransThis manifests itself in
parency International Slovany number of ways. Ignorensko (TIS) noted in a public
people
who seems
lost their
Slovak
It also
that
the
passport
did making
so because
protests are
the they
govtook
up nervous
Hungarian
citizenernment
because
last
ship.
significant
weekAthe
cabinetplurality
pitched ofa
those
whotowere
had
revision
thepunished
public proCzech
citizenship
curement
law to instead.
parliament
arguments
against
thatOther
purports
to eliminate
the
recognising
Kosovo
are even
possibility that
murky
shell
more
problematic.
goes
companies
can takeOne
part
in
that
Slovakia
mustHowever,
stay true toa
public
tenders.
its
Slavic
roots of
andthe
support
quick
review
law
already
seemsand
to sisters
show in
it
their
brothers
needs significant
revisions
to
Serbia.
A second alleges
that
actually make it effective.
acknowledging
Kosovo
Thea precedent
departure that
of clears
Pavol
means
Paškaway
fromfor,
the among
post of speakthe
other
er of parliament
is a strong
things,
Russian annexation
of
indicator of just how deep the
Crimea.
rabbit
hole goes, and
if the opSetting
government
position along
truly ethnic
cares orabout
policies
lintransparent
procureguistic
lines ispublic
not only
racist,
ment,
now ismore
the time
to press
but
causes
harm
than
the ruling
Smer
partysupport
and try
good.
Should
Slovaks
to come
up with
real
propos20th
century
Soviet
gulags
out
alsshared
in parliament
that would
of
Slavic identity?
As
actually
induce
progress.
setting
precedent,
there is
BY BBEATA
BALOGOVÁ for
Y BENJAMIN
If thezero
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speaker ofthat
the
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house Peter
Pellegrini
really
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stock in
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means what law.
he says,
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acternational
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tually will
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not listen
attorneys,
in
ments by the
opposition,
then
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a pro-reform
judge,
in Ukraine’s
Smer
is incapable
of adeastern
provinces.
is a chance
regions where
mitting
when the
theyso-called
make there
Slovakia
need something
not recoguseful Kosovo
could come
from this
judge family
stillmight
flour- nise
mistakes.
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law, one
because
the
situation.
If
this
turns
out to
ish.
According
to
TIS,
every
recall, was meant to discour- European Parliament wants
it
be It
another
way the opposififthethnic
active Hungarians
judge in Slovakia
age
from to.
should recognise
Kosovo
tion triesit to
make exists
votersand
revoted in
of Harabin,
taking
up favour
Hungarian
citizen- because
already
member their names
and dis-–
and thus
in some them
way his
ship
by stripping
of counterfactual
realities
tinguish
their
parties
from
world view
too. if they did. never
Slovak
citizenship
mind
foreign
policies
one emanate
another, from
then them
it will
go
Čimo
in an years,
inter- that
In
the noted
intervening
– are
down
as
a
missed
opportunview
with
the
Sme
daily
that
just 6 percent of the 1,000 best left to science fiction.
Harabin “still received relat- ity.
Changes to the judiciary
ively high support”. What can
induce a mental shift in heads and public procurement laws
of the 255 judges who still could of course work hand-inhand. If there was a watervoted for Harabin?
Society does seem to be proof prosecution and welllosing patience with well- functioning court system, the
connected public officials si- public could hope that anyphoning funds from the no- one who outrageously abused
toriously
cash-strapped their political connections to
healthcare sector. A recent make a fortune would actu5,000-strong protest rally ally pay for it by losing more
suggests that the scandal sur- than their political post.
rounding overpriced medical While there may be some
equipment hit a raw nerve reasons for tentative optimwith many who feel it takes ism about recent changes, the
both excessive greed and list of high ranking public ofstrong political connections ficials convicted of graft and
Kosovo celebrated the seventh anniversary of its independence
to make a mint at the expense sitting in jail remains shamePhoto: AP/TASR
in mid February.
of the sick.
fully low.
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is one, butwhen
the
post Kosovo
on Facebook,
most
the comical
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citizenship
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to the law
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mains
the books
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leadership
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ruling
feated
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LEGISLATION
Slovakia lacks law on cyber
security
Cabinet backs civil law
re-codification
New procurement law
lacks teeth
Opposition,
watchdogs
believe Smerbacked changes
are cosmetic
BY PETER ADAMOVSKÝ
Special to the Spectator
THE LATE-2014 scandal over an
overpriced computed tomography scanner forced changes
to public procurement laws.
Since the beginning of March,
the changes are meant to ban
companies with unclear ownership or those owned by public officials from taking part in
public procurements and also
liberalise purchasing associated with the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the
European Union (EU) in 2016.
Though opposition parties
as well as law experts have criticised the amendments,
Prime Minister Robert Fico and
his Smer party used their outright majority in parliament to
overrule President Andrej
Kiska’s veto and adopted the
bill in late January. “It is better
Management of state funds is at issue.
to have such a law than to have
nothing,” Fico said, as quoted
by the TASR newswire.
Opposition parties MostHíd and Sieť perceive the new
legislation as just a marketing
solution by the Smer government and that it does not force
firms to reveal the ultimate recipient of profits in practically
any shell firm.
“The official point of the
amendment – to exclude firms
with unknown ownership
from public procurement – remained on paper and in reality
it will fail,” MP Miroslav
Beblavý of the Sieť party, told
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The Slovak Spectator. The law
bans companies that have residence in a country with laws
that do not require the disclosure of all owners with a 10 percent or more share in a company from bidding on public
contracts. It also places limits
on companies in which public
officials have a 10 percent stake
or more. An exception is made
for limited liability companies
listed on stock exchanges in
the EU, the European Economic Area or an OECD country. At the last minute the government also added an
amendment that streamlines
purchasing made in preparation for the EU Council presidency in the latter half of 2016,
changes critics fear are open to
abuse.
Excluding certain companies from EU countries
where shareholders’ anonymity is permitted by law from
the public procurement process in Slovakia violates
European law on public procurement, Andrej Leontiev, a
partner at the law firm Taylor
Wessing e/n/w/c, told The
Slovak Spectator.
“Such a legislative approach is not correct,” said Leontiev.
Peter Kunder, an expert on
public procurement from the
non-governmental organisation Fair-Play Alliance, said
that the rules can be easily bypassed and that companies
with dummy owners can still
operate.
“It was only about passing
the exception [for the EU presidency] and political PR,”
Kunder told The Slovak Spectator. The government sought
simplified processes to make
purchases for the Council
presidency, he added.
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Institutions, organisations
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related to Slovak law
Ministry of Justice
Minister: Tomáš Borec
www.justice.gov.sk
Slovak Bar Association – an independent, self-governing
professional organisation of attorneys
www.sak.sk
Chamber of Notaries – a self-governing professional
organisation representing notaries in Slovakia
www.notar.sk
Public Defender of Rights
– Ombudswoman Jana Dubovcová
www.vop.gov.sk
A website publishing some Slovak court verdicts
(in Slovak):
http://www.justice.gov.sk/Stranky/
Sudne-rozhodnutia/Sudne-rozhodnutia.aspx
Collection of laws (in Slovak)
http://www.justice.gov.sk/Stranky/Zakony/
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right direction
BY ERIK RÉDLI
Special to the Spectator
THE PROPOSED amendment to the law on
the free access to information, which still
needs the approval of the Slovak parliament, is a welcomed step forward although most agree there is still more
room for improvement.
The Ministry of Justice, which oversaw the drafting of the bill, argues that
Slovakia has some of the most liberal laws
in Europe when it comes to public access to information and that the revision
keeps the current standard while removing bureaucratic barriers. The aim is that
the public administration does not need
to prepare extensive documents or background research instead of somebody else,
Justice Minister Tomáš Borec explained,
as cited by the SITA newswire.
“It is far from ideal, but nevertheless
improves the current state of affairs,” said
Peter Kunder from the Fair-Play Alliance, one of the organisations that consulted on preparing the draft law.
The Association of Towns and Villages of Slovakia (ZMOS) considers the
law on the freedom of information to be
one of the key tools in building the relationship between the people and the
public authorities, ZMOS spokeswoman Marta Bujňáková told The Slovak
Spectator. She said that there is a lot of
leeway for abuse in the old law, valid
since 2001.
“The revision of the law is a result of
not easy compromises and only its application in practice will show whether all
powers and duties were clearly and comprehensively formulated and space for its
abuse, either from the view of applicants as well as the obliged people, was
eliminated,” said Jozef Dvonč, the ZMOS
chair, as cited by SITA.
Problems with current law
In general, provisions of the existing
law are not clearly defined, according to
ZMOS, and open to ambiguous interpretation. It threatened the legal security of
the members of the public that were
seeking information from public authorities as well as those officials tasked with
providing access.
In order to prepare an amendment to
the law, the Justice Ministry formed a
group which included representatives
from non-governmental organisations
and ZMOS. It worked on the draft revision for two years. The revision to the law
on free access to information amends the
conditions, process and extent of the free
access to information. It requires the
government bodies, municipalities,
higher regional units, and the authorised legal and civil entities to enable access to information on management of
the public resources, administration of
the property of state, municipality or
higher regional unit; the environment
and about services and activities arising
from an agreement.
As the main obstacles Kunder lists the
limited enforceability of the law, and the
larger incapacity or lack of willingness of
the police, prosecutors and courts to reveal, explain and penalise corrupt behaviour.
The law helped to uncover an overpriced purchase of a computed tomography scanner for a hospital in Piešťany
which shocked Slovakia in November
2014. It resulted in the resignation of the
speaker of parliament Pavol Paška and
also other figures in top positions in
health care. In reaction to the Piešťany
purchase, but also other suspicious public procurements that followed, the parliament pushed forward a new public
procurement law.
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ners, Ľubomír Leško, attorney
at Peterka & Partners, and
Havel, Holásek & Partners law
firm.
THOUGH legal experts admit
that some revisions adopted in
2014 will improve the environment in Slovakia, they also
point to negative impacts
brought by measures adopted
by parliament last year. These
concern, in particular, the
changes to the Income Tax Act
which most of them view as
problematic.
The Slovak Spectator spoke
about these changes with
Daniel Futej, partner at Futej &
Partners, Allen & Overy Bratislava law firm, Tomáš Urban,
attorney at Čechová & Part-
The Slovak Spectator (TSS):
Which legislative changes or
new laws adopted in 2014 do
you consider to be most important, and why?
Daniel Futej (DF): The revision of the tax law, collective
bargaining and amending the
code concerning agency employees are pretty important.
Furthermore a new law on energy effectiveness is important in identification of energy
savings. Certain changes were
made even in the area of immigration law related to
double citizenship rules.
In spite of the corporate tax
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profit or not. Even though such
fees are tax deductible, they do
not contribute to simplification of the business environment. Mandatory electronic
VAT records introduced for
VAT-payers will allow fighting
of carousel fraud by accepting
monthly and quarterly VAT records only in electronic form.
Introduction of specific
rules related to whistleblowers
are very critical since it sends a
signal to the public at large
that the government is ready
to fight corruption. The introduction of transfer pricing
rules, even between two domestic companies, is a very
important tool for the tax office to fight tax evasion. Under
the new legislation, even domestic entities will be forced to
demonstrate that the prices
applied in their mutual business transactions, including
prices for services, credit and
loans; do not differ from the
prices used by non-related entities in comparable business
transactions.
Allen & Overy Bratislava:
In our view, two pieces of legislation governing arbitration and capital markets
which were adopted in 2014
were particularly encouraging
and will have a positive impact
on the business climate.
First, a major amendment
to the Arbitration Act has
aligned the Slovak framework
with the modernised 2006
UNICTRAL Model Law and
will, undoubtedly, facilitate
the settlement of commercial
disputes by arbitration. At the
same time, an entirely new Act
on Consumer Arbitration will
regulate an alternative method for resolving consumer disputes. The clear separation
between commercial and consumer arbitration will benefit
both by introducing greater
flexibility in commercial arbitration and more robust
protection in consumer arbitration. These changes will
send a strong signal that Slovakia wishes to be recognised as
an arbitration-friendly and
welcoming jurisdiction.
Secondly, the Slovak capital markets have been modernised by an amendment to
the Act on Bonds. Slovak legislation now expressly recognises established concepts
such as bondholder meetings
and joint trustees. The adopted
measures may facilitate the
development of the Slovak
capital market and bond financing by Slovak issuers.
Finally, an important piece
of EU legislation was also adopted in 2014 – the Directive on
Damages for Competition Law
Infringements. Once implemented into Slovak law, this
legislation will facilitate
claims for damages brought by
consumers or businesses on
the basis of anti-competitive
conduct, such as cartels or bidrigging.
Tomáš Urban (TU): We
believe that adoption of the
Whistleblowing Act deserves
to be marked as a breaking
point and an important step in
the corruption-fighting effort
within Slovakia. Even though
it has its shortcomings and it
creates a number of obligations and administrative burdens for businesses, it has the
potential to effectively protect
and thus encourage potential
whistleblowers. A whistleblower who reports one of
the so-called “serious antisocial activities” to the authorities may be granted protection and even a reward and
free legal assistance.
Further, we appreciate the
news that the Electronic Market Place, which was introduced by legislation adopted
earlier in 2013, was finally created on July 1, 2014 and since
March 1, 2015 is supposed to be
mandatorily used by the public
contracting authorities for all
specified
below-thethreshold-limit contracts. We
believe that this may significantly increase transparency in
the public procurement sector
and allow a wide range of businesses to compete for public
contracts.
Ľubomír Leško (ĽL): We
noticed several important
changes to tax laws in 2014, especially regarding income tax,
where we can mention the
tightening of duties in the field
of transfer pricing in the form
of more precise anchoring of its
content and extending the
group of taxpayers on whom
these rules apply (originally
the rules were applied only on
transactions between domestic and foreign related legal entities, while under the new
rules they also apply on transactions between domestic related legal entities). We can
also mention the changes to
the depreciation of tangible
property, introducing the rules
of low capitalisation, or allowing reduction of tax bases by
additional expenditures on research and development.
Regarding labour laws, the
amendment to the Protection,
Support and Development of
Public Health Act was adopted
which introduced a mandatory health service to every
employer, regardless of the
categorisation of work from
the point of evaluating health
risks. As of January 1, 2015 employers, including those having only one person in an employment relationship (including working agreements
outside employment), are obliged to secure health supervision by a working health service which can be implemented in two ways: either by having their own professional
employees or by signing an
agreement with an external
supplier. Another important
change is the amendment to
the Labour Code effective as of
July 1, 2014, which limited the
duration of agreements other
than those of employment to
no more than 12 months.
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March 23 – April 5, 2015
BUSINESS FOCUS
LAW: Other changes spark emotions too
Continued from pg 7
The
amendment
also
changed the maturity and payments of salaries, which increased the administrative burden on employers, especially in
relation to login and logout to
the health and social insurers.
As for businesses, also the
amendment to the Law on
Protection of Competition adopted in May 2014 was important. The changes pertain
mostly to the field of agreements limiting competition,
anchoring the institutes of
settlements and commitments directly into the law, or
their more detailed changes in
the law, new rules for leniency and changes in the field of
reporting
concentrations
which should simplify the access of participating parties
when reporting and assessing
the concentrations.
Havel, Holásek & Partners: An amendment to the
Public Procurement Act was
adopted in 2014 whose aim is to
prevent the participation of
the so-called “shell companies” in public procurements.
As a result, competitions can
involve only business entities
that can prove their ownership structure up to a natural
person (demonstration of
equity participation § 26a). The
bidders who will falsely inform about their ownership
structure will face a fine from
the Public Procurement Office
of up to €10,000 and ban from
participating in public procurement for three years.
Further, two important
new tax changes were adopted: the amendment to the Income Tax Act and the amendment to the Value Added Tax
Act which are expected to
contribute to an increase in the
state budget, to create a favourable and stable business
environment, to increase legal
certainty and to fight tax evasion. Unlike the amendment
to the Value Added Tax Act, the
amendment to the Income Tax
Act negatively interferes into
nearly every business sector.
A significant legislative
change is undoubtedly the adoption of the amendment to
the Arbitration Act and the
completely new Act on Consumer Arbitration, which became the only regulation
based on which decisions can
be passed in consumer disputes in Slovakia.
TSS:
Which
legislative
changes or new laws adopted in 2014 do you consider
controversial or problematic, and why?
DF: The amendment to
agency employees may cause
significant cost problems for
businesses. Under the new law
the user employer is obliged to
pay the difference in wages if
those of a temporary employee are lower than those of its
own comparable employees.
Such balance payment must be
paid within 15 days from the
payday agreed on between the
user employer and the agency.
It means that if temporary
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Changes to temporary employment are also seen as controversial.
employees get a lower wage
than a comparable employee of
the user employer, it may
mean that the temporary employees can enforce their right
directly against the user employer before a court!
Moreover, for the purposes of
payment of the difference in
wages, user employers shall be
obliged to make all obligatory
deductions (social security,
health insurance, tax advance
payments); for this purpose,
the user employer is considered a regular employer of a
temporary employee. It will
not be possible to conclude the
contract on providing other
services if these services
would basically mean that the
user employer is giving the instructions to the employees of
another employer or agency;
the services would be performed on the premises of the
user employer; and the scope
of activities performed by employees belong to the scope of
business of the user employer.
Such employees would be
considered as user employees
and would be entitled to get
the same wage as actual employees of the user employer.
Finally, the conditions of temporary assignment are stricter.
Allen & Overy Bratislava:
Another
consumer-related
amendment to the Civil Code
and the implementing legislation has underlined the often
non-conceptual and idiosyncratic method of protecting
Slovak consumers. Whilst consumer protection is certainly a
legitimate policy, it is questionable whether it is really advanced by setting a minimum
font size of 1.9 mm and, most
importantly, by sanctioning all
non-compliant contracts with
nullity. At the end of the day,
the nullity of contracts may
even be detrimental to consumers. In any event, at least
the legislator did not adopt the
bizarre proposal tabled in the
legislative process that all consumer contracts should be
printed in one specific font
(Times New Roman).
Another problematic piece
of legislation was the amendment to the Income Tax Act. In
addition to headline changes
such as the introduction of
thin cap rules, extension of
transfer pricing and restric-
tions on tax expenses, we have
encountered numerous problems concerning the practical
application of the withholding
tax on pharmaceutical companies, in particular regarding
non-monetary benefits.
TU: Probably 2014’s most
controversial topic in Slovak
corporate law was adoption
and subsequent presidential
veto of the amendment to the
Commercial Code. The intent
of the amendment, among
others, was to make setting up
a company easier (which
should encourage new startups) by allowing creation of
new private limited liability
companies with registered
capital as low as €1 as opposed
to the currently required minimum amount of €5,000. At
the same time the amendment intended to introduce
new limitations in terms of
operation of such “small”
companies compared to the
“regular” private limited liability companies with minimum registered capital of
€25,000. The president vetoed
the amendment arguing it is
incomplete and insufficient,
criticising for example the
limitations applicable to the
“small” private liability limited companies, inconsistency
in the ban on returning the
contributions to the registered
capital or the ban on transactions between a company and
its shareholders that would be
applicable only to private liability limited companies but not
to joint-stock companies. As
the attempt of the governing
party to overcome the president’s veto in the parliament
was unsuccessful, the amendment has not become valid and
effective.
Also a new amendment to
the Competition Act, which
introduced the possibility to
reward an individual who informed authorities on a horizontal agreement restricting
competition and provided related essential evidence,
raised some controversies. The
reward may amount to 1 percent of the aggregate fines imposed on all members of the
cartel with a maximum of
€100,000. Critics of the
amendment argue that it is
rather a non-standard practice
within the EU to reward whis-
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tleblowing individuals in such
cases, and they warn that this
may encourage misuse of such
an institute and false allegations raised by bitter exemployees of the accused corporations.
ĽL: The amendment to the
Collective Bargaining Act,
which became effective on
January 1, 2014, limited employers in regard to extending
higher-level collective agreements in a given sector. According to the amendment,
higher-level collective agreements can be signed for a
whole sector or part of a sector. Their validity can be extended also to employees
without their consent, after
getting permission from the
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family. The proposal
to extend the higher-level collective agreements can be
submitted also by only one of
the contracting parties (for
example trade unions). In 2014
higher-level collective agreements were extended in several sectors.
Havel, Holásek & Partners:
The
controversial
amendment to the Public Procurement Act does not reveal
the final beneficiaries from
public procurements, but contains the identification of
people who have managing
rights in companies. In this respect a public register should be
created of final beneficiaries
from the order which,
however, still does not exist. In
our opinion the amendment
will not stop companies with
secret owners from winning
tenders, since it requires only
the revelation of the formal
owners of the bidders.
Within the amendment to
the Income Tax Act mostly the
following
problematic
changes were adopted: prolonging the depreciations of
some kinds of property; low
capitalisation on connected
business companies; transfer
pricing
of
transactions
between domestic related legal entities; extending the
group of services on which the
duty to register the revenues in
electronic or virtual cash registers applies, etc.
To read the whole survey,
please see www.spectator.sk.
IN SLOVAKIA, a law is lacking
that would integrally solve
the issue of cyber security,
the Concept of Cyber Security
filed by the Slovak Government Office for comments
states.
The lack of legislation in
this sphere is “the gravest
problem of cyber security in
Slovak conditions”, according
to the concept.
The responsible institution for the preparation of the
law is the Finance Ministry.
The ministry’s press department confirmed for the SITA
newswire at the beginning of
March that they are preparing
this law, but refused to disclose details. The draft should
be filed by the end of 2015 for
government approval. During
the preparatory phase, all
bodies of state administration
and experts from academia
have been approached.
One cannot say that we,
in Slovakia, would not solve
cyber threats – it is a hot topic
that arouses much interest,
security analyst Marian Majer of the Center for European
and North Atlantic Affairs
(CENAA) told SITA. As there
are several subjects and institutions involved, it is
questionable, however,
whether we are dealing with
it in a sufficiently effective
way, he said and added that
already, it is too late to adopt
the concept, a law and to
elaborate other related issues.
In Slovakia, the level of
preparedness for cyber
threats is different, the
concept finds. As the networks and systems are interconnected, those lacking a
sufficient level of protection
weaken the overall security of
the networks and information in the whole country.
The issue of cyber threats is
not considered enough of a
problem yet.
The concept considers a
priority in protecting cyberspace not just by adopting the
planned legislation, but also
by increasing security consciousness, education and
training in this sphere, as
well as support for research
and development in information and communication
technologies and their security. According to the Concept,
a cyber-security committee of
the Security Council of Slovakia shall be established that
would operate as a permanent working body for the coordination of measures of cyber security.
More time to re-think
EVERY woman will have two
months to change her mind
after giving so-called secret
birth to a child – according to
a draft amendment to the
Law on Family. Currently,
she can ask for her identity
to be secret, but can revoke
this decision within six
weeks after the birth.
The explanatory report
to the amendment – elaborated by the Justice Ministry –
proposes to handle cases of
births the same as cases
when parents fail to show an
interest in ababy for at least
two months after its birth.
Anna Ghannamová, head
of the civic association
Chance for the Unwanted ,
who focuses on the issue of
secret births, told the SITA
newswire that she sees no
logical reason for this change
– according to their statistics, only six mothers out of a
total of 238 returned to their
babies by the end of 2013. In
the 10 years since the Safety
Nests (where mothers can
leave newborn babies to be
rescued by medical staff)
have been in operation, six
mothers returned to their
children, out of 47 in all who
left them in baby-boxes.
Cabinet backs civil law re-codification
THE SLOVAK cabinet has
backed a proposal by the
Justice Ministry to re-codify
the civil law. The Code of Civil
Procedure, Civil Suit Procedure
and Civil Non-suit Procedure
shall replace the Civil Procedure Code dating back to 1963.
The proposed laws belong
among the biggest and most
important legal reforms since
Slovakia became independent
in 1993, each of them having
around 500 paragraphs.
Justice Minister Tomáš Borec
stressed that the recodification of civil law
“brings a whole complex of
changes that shall speed up,
simplify and improve civil
proceedings to a completely
new level. They should mean
an important move forward,”
he stressed, as quoted by the
SITA newswire. He called the
approved laws “a Christmas
gift for citizens who can look
forward to them”.
Borec said that after the
first reading in January 2015,
the draft shall be commented
upon and changed; until summer, the draft should be
passed and become effective
only in July 2016 – taking into
consideration how crucial
they are.
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please go to www.spectator.sk.
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Romeo and Juliet staged
BY ZUZANA VILIKOVSKÁ
Spectator staff
WILLIAM Shakespeare is an
unfailing inspiration for many
artists, including opera composers. His Romeo and Juliet is
the basis for several operas,
including one by Frenchmen
Charles Gounod. The Slovak
National Theatre (SND) is set to
produce it for the first time in
its 95th history.
“Shakespeare is such apt
material for musical works
because of its structure, its
composition – other writers in
drama also used Shakespeare,”
Diego de Brea, the Slovenian
director of this staging, told
The Slovak Spectator. “Because of the plot, the conflicts
among the characters, just like
Dostoyevsky… In contrast,
modern texts are veristic and
do not open ontological
themes; they open just small
cuts of life.”
De Brea has previously
directed two drama pieces for
the SND and received the Slovak Dosky award for his staging
of Coriolanus, also emphasised that in his view the plot of
Romeo and Juliet is not as
much a love story of those two
as it is a conflict between her
father’s power ambitions, including his selected match for
her husband, and her free, unyielding spirit that desires for
a love and a partner selected on
her own.
Moreover, de Brea likened
the crucial conflict between
two rival families to a fight for
power and for keeping it –
“imagine two families ruling
the whole city state of Verona,
something like Putin and
Medvedev are in today’s Russia”, he said at the matinee on
March 1.
The SND’s Romeo and Juliet is conducted by Rastislav
D. Čapkovič, J. Ďurčo and T. Kružliaková in Romeo and Juliet.
Štúr. “I try to stick to the model and the score as much as
possible, it should be played
very sensitively, beautifully,”
he told the SND’s monthly
magazine. “It is an opera based
on the solo parts to a great extent.”
De Brea said that apart
from the fact that the original
story is one about family conflict, power, opportunism and
political weddings, or about
infatuation that lasts for only
a few days – and not about love
– it is the “smaller” characters
like Father Capuleto, Thybault
or Mercuzio who pull the
strings of fate of the main
characters, Romeo and Juliet.
Unlike the big operas of
Giuseppe Verdi, Gounod’s version is more intimate, more
focused on the conspiracies,
the relationships among the
characters and the impossibility for the lovers to develop
their relationship, or even to
be alone and enjoy it fully.
Gounod’s version has only
been staged once before in
Slovakia, at the Zvolen Castle
Plays.
“For me, it was interesting
that the music is lyrical and
romantic, the situation is dramatic,” de Brea said at at the
press conference. “There are
three crucial issues in it: war,
faith and love.”
The scenery made by Slovenian Marko Japelj, is sophisticated but minimalist, putting all the focus on the happenings and the actors. The
complex cordage and the
hanging balcony offer a great
background for one of the crucial scenes. The costumes by
Blagoj Micevski are also neutral and low-key.
What is even more sophisticated is the lighting – “the
lights and the fog alone took 60
hours to make,” de Brea said.
“At a certain level, opera is
even harder than drama,” he
told the Slovak Spectator, “as it
is more limited by music.
Modern opera does quite the
contrary to what the music
says, but for me, it is impossible as you must follow the
dramaturgy of the music. You
cannot escape it, you must be
very precise because music
tells all the structure of the dynamics.”
Opera singers often know
where they are supposed to go
and what they should sing,
while not knowing what the
conflict is and where it is leading, de Brea said, but he
praised the Slovak cast and added that they were able enter
the story, rather than to tell or
approach it from outside.
“This brings the crucial
question of art and its performing – are we experiencing
and living it, or just illustrating and showing it?” de Brea
said.
Romeo
and
Juliet
premiered on March 6 and 8.
The cast includes Eva
Hornyáková, Kyungho Kim,
Sergej
Tostov,
Denisa
Šlepkovská, Aleš Jenis, Martin
Gyimesi, Roman Krško, Ján
Gallo, Monika Fabianová and
others.
This opera is sung in
French and returns to the SND
stage on April 2, May 17 and
June 20 this theatre season.
More details are available at
www.snd.sk.
Šlepkovská, Galla, Hornyáková, Tolstov
Photos: Jozef Barinka
Leontiev added he believes the
change will not decrease the risks of corruption and non-transparent spending
of public resources.
“All goods and services should and
could be purchased through the standard methods of public procurement,”
said Leontiev. “There has been plenty of
time to prepare for this situation.”
Opposition proposals
In January, Beblavý and MEP Lucia
Žitňanská from Most-Híd presented their
own proposals to change procurement
laws. They proposed a registry of final
beneficiaries at a meeting with officials
from the Office for Public Procurement
(ÚVO).
The registry would be used in all cases
of state spending including public procurement, sales and rental of state property, investment subsidies and incentives, EU funding and in handling of public resources in health insurance.
ÚVO should submit the bill on registry of final beneficiaries by the end of
March.
But Beblavý and Žitňanská point out
that the bill does not apply to handling
with all public funds.
“The office has been developing the
registry of final benefit users only for the
purpose of public procurement,” said
Žitňanská during a press conference she
held with Beblavý on March 5, as cited by
TASR, adding that the ruling Smer does
not want to prepare a comprehensive
law.
The law has to show the definitive
recipient of benefits, offer a means to adjudicate doubtful cases and also offer
public control, Gabriel Gilányi, spokesman for Most-Híd, told The Slovak Spectator.
“Public control would not be left only
to politicians and their nominees,” he
said.
Leontiev agrees that the registry
would enhance public control, if it is accessible for all.
The public registry will be managed
by the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS),
according to the amendment. Gilányi of
Most-Híd points out that extending of
scope of NBS must be cleared by the
European Central Bank (ECB).
Further steps
Experts from the Fair-Play Alliance
think that the registry will do little to
solve major issues.
Beblavý perceives the establishment
of the registry as a partial step. The real
change will come with a new law on
public procurement which will change
the current system so that it stops being
complicated, pretend competition.
Kunder has suggested that future
changes must define shell firms in a
meaningful way and initiate effective
steps to increase their transaction costs.
According to Leontiev, it is essential
to choose the way that does not discriminate any legal forms acknowledged in
other EU countries and requires consistent disclosure of ownership structure as
the requirement to be eligible for public
contracts.
He sees a possibility in extending
laws that target money laundering to
public procurement.
“It has a foothold in European public
procurement law,” Leontiev said.
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Delight for body
and soul
THE SLOVAK National Gallery
(SNG) tries, in its Nestex exhibition, to present old Slovak
art in a very modern way. In
March, this offer is being enhanced with a lecture in
English.
Art had a different function in the past, trying to divert the focus of people’s
minds from everyday trivial
issues to the more spiritual,
elevating matters, or to
present extraordinary grace
and embellishments.
People usually view
Gothic and Baroque artworks
in religious buildings or in
the places where they have
been created. Thus, it may
seem something of a challenge to try to exhibit them
in a modern gallery.
However, the SNG has
undertaken this challenge
and on the 1st floor of its
Esterházy palace in Bratislava, it presents the paintings, altars and statues from
the 14th-18th centuries exhibited in a special, impressive design and lighting.
It may seem that unlike
modern art, old art needs no
explanation or additional
background information. This
is not absolutely true for
Nestex (Nestála expozícia, or
Non-Permanent Exposition),
as the selection of works
from the SNG’s historical collections, as well as the design
and work with architecture,
space and light, are better
clarified and illustrated.
On March 24, all this will
be offered – and in English –
as both one of the curators,
Dušan Buran (the other one
being Katarína Chmelinová),
and the architects and authors of the visual side of the
exposition, Martin Jančok
and Aleš Šedivec will lead the
Nestex events of the Talking
Art series of evenings in the
SNG. The lecture will start at
18:00, with a glass of wine
and more informal talks are
planned for 19:15.
More information on both
the lecture and the Nestex
exhibition can be found at
www.sng.sk.
By Zuzana Vilikovská
Nestex: Gothic and Baroque at the SNG.
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Kunder of Fair-Play Alliance considers the proposed
changes as something that
enables the state to guarantee access to at least the most
necessary information.
“To maintain correctness, it is necessary that the
law states the rights and duties clearly and does not give
leeway for abuse,” said
Bujňáková.
What to expect
from the new law
All the participating
parties agree that corruption
is a complex issue that cannot be solved by a single law.
However, they hope that the
proposed law can help.
The original law on the
free access to information was
passed with an aim to enable
the public to access the contracts, agreements and invoices of the state and regional administration.
However, publicly owned
companies could opt out of
the law easily as uncovering
their financial statements and
transactions would give an
advantage to their opposition.
“The amendment brings
more specific definition of
the duties of the responsible
people, including the responsibilities of the municipalities, and also addresses
the application of the requirements up to the degree
that they can be compelled
legally,” said Bujňáková.
“However, not all the requirements on the part of the
citizen sector or from the
representatives of the public
administration can be evaluated as fully acceptable.”
Access to information
does not apply to information that is not available, including the opinions and unwritten viewpoints.
Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) says the
new law will deal with technical problems, but also admits continued reservations.
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FEATURE
March 23 – April 5, 2015
SPECTATOR COLLEGE
For exercises linked
to the Spectator College
programme please visit
www.spectator.sk
Spectator College is a programme to
support the study and teaching of
English in Slovakia, as well as to inspire interest in important public
issues among young people. The
project was created by The Slovak
Spectator and the Petit Academy
Foundation. Please see our online
Spectator
College
section
at
www.spectator.sk for articles,
glossaries and tips for exercises
which can be used in English lessons.
Glossary
accommodation – bývanie
affect – ovplyvniť
affordable – dostupný
and the like – a podobne
appropriate – primeraný
board of directors – predstavenstvo
burden – záťaž
bustle – ruch
cease to exist – zaniknúť
comfortable – pohodlný
community amenities –
občianska vybavenosť
comparable – porovnateľný
contribution – príspevok
draw – ťahať
duty – povinnosť
emphasise – zdôrazňovať
expansion – rozmach
fee – poplatok
flat – byt
gap – rozdiel, medzera
housing – bývanie
impact – ovplyvniť
income – príjem
income tax – daň z príjmu
inhabitant – obyvateľ
insufficient – nedostatočný
interest rate – úroková
sadzba
lease – nájomná zmluva
lifestyle – životný štýl
living – život, bývanie
local authority – miestny
úrad
long for – túžiť
maintain – udržiavať
mortgage – hypotéka
municipality – obec
new building – novostavba
notice period – výpovedná
lehota
offer – ponuka
owner – vlastník
peak – vrchol
perceive – vnímať
permanent residency – trvalý
pobyt
plot – pozemok
populate – obývať
property – majetok
real estate – nehnuteľnosť
regional capital – krajské
mesto
rent – prenajať (si); nájom
rental – prenájom
resident – miestny obyvateľ
rural – vidiecky
sewer system – kanalizácia
share – podiel
short-term – krátkodobý
schoolchild – školák
significantly – významne
solution – riešenie
spread – rozšíriť sa
sufficient – dostatočný
surrounding – okolie
temporary – dočasný
tenant – nájomník
tension – napätie
terminate – ukončiť
terraced house – dom v
radovej zástavbe
traffic jam – dopravná zápcha
wane – slabnúť
working trip – pracovná cesta
Lesson 14
Housing
Slovaks still drawn to satellite towns
THOUGH the experts say interest in moving to satellite
towns in rural areas near big
cities has waned, there are still
people longing for their own
house with a garden, close to
nature and for an affordable
price.
“The advantage [of this
kind of housing] is that we
have a family house which offers more comfortable living,”
Jana Jakubíková, 32, told The
Slovak Spectator. She lives in
the
satellite
town
of
Kalinkovo, some 20 kilometres
from Bratislava’s city centre.
Typical inhabitants of
satellite towns were once
people with higher incomes,
but statistics show that at
present they are mostly populated by people with secondary school education aged 3050, and especially families
with children, said Imrich
Béreš, chair of the board of directors of the Prvá Stavebná
Sporiteľňa company.
“Better prices play a significant role compared to the city
and a higher quality flat or
house for the price,” Béreš told
The Slovak Spectator.
Andrea Michalcová, 44,
who lives in Bernolákovo (22
kilometres from Bratislava),
says it was mostly the price
which attracted her family to
move to a satellite town. According to her, eight years ago
the price of a house with a
small plot of land was comparable with the price of a flat in
Bratislava.
Another reason for moving to the satellite towns is
that people are closer to nature
and have better possibilities
for sports or free time, said
Robert Longauer, 34, who lives
in Hainburg in Austria.
Changing lifestyles
The first satellite towns
appeared in Slovakia in the
1990s. They were built close to
Bratislava, but later spread to
the surroundings of regional
capitals as well. Since 1996 the
Terraced houses were built also in Dunajská Lužná.
towns lost some 132,000 inhabitants, most of who moved to
the satellite towns, Béreš said.
The peak came in 2000
when several developers started to buy agricultural lands
close to the municipalities and
transform them into complexes of houses and flats.
“The first decade after 2000
was typical also for the expansion of the terraced houses in
several regions of Slovakia,”
Béreš said.
According to him, the development of the satellite
towns also impacted the number of inhabitants in the villages near which they stand.
For example in Rovinka, located just outside Bratislava,
the number of inhabitants
doubled to 2,873 in 2014, the
Trend economic weekly wrote
on its website.
Béreš, however, warns
that the new inhabitants often do not ask for permanent
residency in the municipalities, meaning they do not pay
their share of income taxes to
the local authorities.
“Then they [municipalities] are not able to finance the
necessary
infrastructure
which the developers do not
always build and certainly do
not maintain,” Béreš added.
Rovinka Mayor Milan
Bombala confirmed this problem to Trend in August 2014.
His village however agreed
with some of the new inhabitants that they will pay some
Photo: Sme
kind of contribution which
equals their share of income
tax. He also persuaded two developers who have built the
houses in the local satellite
town to make a contribution to
extension of the primary
school, Trend wrote.
The town planners say that
a fee for investment activities
may be one of the ways to solve
the problems with financing
the infrastructure in satellite
towns.
In summer 2014, several
media outlets illustrated the
problem of missing infrastructure in Čierna Voda, a satellite
town belonging to Chorvátsky
Grob (24 kilometres from Bratislava). Among the problems
was the insufficient sewer system, the gap between the new
and old parts of the town and
conflicts which resulted in
tensions between the old and
new inhabitants, according to
the reports.
A return to cities
People addressed by The
Slovak Spectator consider the
community amenities in the
satellites they live in appropriate, though often less developed as in the bigger cities.
Often there is a small shop,
post office, kindergarten,
school and a doctor. On the
other hand there are few possibilities for cultural life and
residents must often travel to
the nearby bigger town or city.
“Most people also keep
doctors in the city centre,
though they move to the
satellites,” Longauer said.
The main problem cited by
both
Jakubíková
and
Michalcová is the resulting
traffic. Though they live relatively close to Bratislava, they
still spend hours in traffic jams.
“Eight years ago commuting was one of the advantages,
but since then the situation
has radically worsened as the
number of people moving to
satellite towns increased,”
Michalcová said. “The roads,
however, have been neither
widened nor enlarged, so their
capacity remains the same.”
The problematic transport
and the fact that children still
go to schools in bigger towns
and have other activities there
is seeing some families with
schoolchildren move back to
the bigger cities, Béreš said.
However, he does not expect that satellite towns will
cease to exist, rather that people
will be more careful when analysing the reasons to stay in the
main city or town or move to a
satellite town, Béreš said.
Since there are still people
who prefer the rural way of life
rather than the bustle of the
city, the trend of moving to
satellite towns may continue
for 10-15 years, he added. One
of the reasons is that Slovaks
live in their own accommodation rather than in rented
flats or houses.
“If municipalities will care
about observing and developing their land plan, and will
approach it effectively so the
satellite is not a burden for inhabitants, then this way of
housing and lifestyle should
not experience major problems in the coming years,”
Béreš concluded.
Nevertheless
Bombala
stressed to Trend that every
village needs to control growth
in order to secure the services
residents need.
By Radka Minarechová
Rentals perceived as temporary solution for the young
SLOVAKIA has one of the highest shares of privately owned housing,
and fewer than 10 percent of people live in rental properties. Most
people consider this kind of accommodation a short-term solution,
according to real estate experts.
“This means that mostly young people use this possibility as
their first housing or temporary accommodation during a working
trip and the like,” Filip Žoldák of Herrys real estate agency told the
TASR newswire.
One big group living in rented housing is students.
“We expect that the interest in rentals will increase shortly
before the summer holidays and especially during the third
quarter when the statistics are significantly affected by the movement of students,” said Lexxus analyst Michal Zajíček, as quoted
by TASR.
Tenants, as compared to owners, have the advantage of flexibilPeople prefer their own housing rather than rentals. Photo: Sme
ity and can terminate leases quickly in a case where they change jobs
or face changing accommodation needs, said head of the National
Association of Real Estate Agencies in Slovakia (NARKS) Ján
Palenčár. Moreover, they do not have as many duties as owners.
Experts emphasise that the lease needs to contain the time of
renting the flat, the price of rent, the way and notice period for terminating the agreement and the responsibility for possible repairs,
TASR wrote.
The most frequent factors impacting the decision to buy a flat
are a stable job, enough money and the desire to have a family.
Moreover, people are motivated to have their own housing also by
historically low interest rates on mortgages, good prices and the sufficient offer of new buildings, TASR reported.
Compiled by Spectator staff