Materials to accompany an application for registration

Erik L?štic, “If It Works, Fine, If Not, So What? Initiatives in Slovakia,” in Maija Set?l? and Theo Schiller, eds.: Citizens’ Initiatives in Europe: Procedures and Consequences of Agenda-Setting by Citizens. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

“It is possible to argue that the procedure is not very restrictive. For example, an initiative does not have to be formally registered with state or local authorities, and neither the law on petitions nor the law on referendums establishes precise conditions about the process of collecting signatures. Formally, the process starts with the establishment of a petition committee; at least one of the members has to be older than 18.” (p. 157)

PETITIONLAW

(Adopted 1990; last amended 2010)

http://www.bratislava.sk/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?id_org=700000&id=11025535&p1=15346

Article 3 Petičn? v?bor

(1) Na zostavenie pet?cie,obstaranie podpisov pod ňu a doručenie pet?cie org?nu verejnej spr?vy m?žuosoby pod?vaj?ce pet?ciu vytvoriť petičn? v?bor.

(2) Petičn? v?bor nie jepr?vnickou osobou.

(3) Členovia petičn?ho v?borus? povinn? určiť osobu, ktor? dovŕšila vek 18 rokov, na ich zastupovanie vstyku s org?nom verejnej spr?vy.

(4) Ak nie je vytvoren?petičn? v?bor, mus? sa v pet?cii určiť osoba, ktor? dovŕšila vek 18 rokov, nastyk s org?nom verejnej spr?vy.

The initiative doesnot need to be formally registered with government authorities. The Petition Law does not specify thematerials that must be submitted for establishing the petition committee.