Today, the Government set the text of proposed new amendments to the Auditing Act. The amendments partly transpose into the Slovenian legislation the EU Directive on corporate sustainability reporting and also introduce other improvements. The main objective of the proposed amendments is to partly transpose Directive 2022/2464/EU, which imposes new and extensive requirements on companies regarding sustainability reporting. The aim of this regulation is to achieve greater transparency, comparability and reliability of information on sustainability, which should improve the sustainability of business operations and decision-making of all stakeholders. In addition to the transposition of EU legislation into Slovenian law, the proposed new amendments to the Auditing Act also introduce improvements in the supervision of certified appraisers, the operation of the Agency for Public Oversight of Auditing, and the powers and responsibilities of the Slovenian Institute of Auditors.

The Government issued new amendments to the Decree on measures to control and prevent the spread of grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma. Due to the outbreak of grapevine flavescence dorée disease in Slovenia, last year the Government issued the Decree on measures to control and prevent the spread of grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma. The amendments supplement the Decree in the part concerning special requirements for grapevine propagating material in order to apply the relevant EU regulation and introduce a new measure requiring grapevine propagating material to be treated by the hot-water method in accordance with the international standard of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). They prescribe the conditions and procedure for obtaining a permit to provide hot-water treatment, the obligations of treatment providers and clients, and inspection procedures. The amendments to the Decree also set out more transparent procedures regarding financial compensation, in particular in relation to the status in the Register of Agricultural Holdings and the conditions for payment and time limits for applications. In addition, the amendments also include adjustments to the model calculation of eligible costs and to the content of the application for financial compensation.

Due to the spread of infected areas within the delimited areas for containing grapevine flavescence dorée in northeastern and southeastern Slovenia, the list of municipalities where the measures are to be carried out is amended.

The Government declared 28 September as Civil Defence Day. Civil defence consists of measures taken by state authorities and the bodies of self-governing local communities for the purposes of wartime operations, economic and psychological defence, and other non-military forms of defence performed by citizens, self-governing local communities, state authorities, companies, institutes and other organisations. The fundamental document defining defence planning is the Constitutional Act Implementing the Amendments XCVI and XCVII to the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia concerning people's defence, which granted the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia the power to regulate in detail the formulation of defence and defence development plans. As this Constitutional Act was adopted on 28 September 1990, 28 September was declared Civil Defence Day.