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Temporary entry in the ZAPS register

Individuals who wish to provide temporary/cross-border engineering services and other professional work concerning responsible design in architecture, landscape architecture or responsible spatial planning must meet all prescribed conditions. If they do, they are temporarily entered in the ZAPS register.

An individual must lodge an application for cross-border/temporary provision of services with ZAPS on the prescribed form.

When ZAPS finds that the applicant meets the conditions, they are temporarily entered in the ZAPS register. On the date of the entry, the applicant becomes a temporary member of the Chamber.

An identity card and a unified stamp are issued only at the applicant's explicit request.

Permits can be obtained here.

Conditions

  • The individual concerned must be a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia or any other Member State of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) or the Swiss Confederation.

  • An individual must meet all the prescribed conditions for exercising a regulated profession in his or her country of origin.

    An individual must have appropriate professional qualifications for performing services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    If the profession is not regulated in the country of origin, the individual must have provided the services to be provided in the Republic of Slovenia continuously or cumulatively for at least two years in the last 10-year period before he or she may start providing these services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    Evidence

    A diploma, a certificate and other documents confirming the applicant's level of education, professional competence, experience and other competencies, and certificates attesting to the type and content of training completed.

    Legal basis

  • Insurance against liability for damages that might be incurred by an investor or a third party in connection with the pursuit of architectural and engineering activities may be concluded as:

    • a comprehensive guarantee, which shall be renewed annually; or
    • as collateral for a particular transaction falling within the scope of the economic operator’s activity.

    The insurance shall cover the liability for negligence resulting in damage or material defect and including among direct material damage (damage and destruction) also the costs directly required for the elimination or prevention of damage without the occurrence of any actual damage.

    The damage that must be covered by insurance also includes:

    • damage in the form of a reduction in the value of the business transaction or construction, and
    • other damage resulting from a claim made by an investor or a third party.

    The liability insurance must cover the damage for actions taken during the period of insurance or for actions for which a loss event notice has been filed during the period of the insurance.

    The insurance amount for all insurance cases in a given year or for an individual transaction, if the insurance is taken out for a particular business operation, shall not be less than EUR 50,000.

    The insurance policy must contain the following:

    • the names of the certified architects and engineers covered by the insurance, or
    • the general clause that the liability insurance covers all certified architects and engineers in the economic operator.

    Insurance may also take the form of collective insurance through the Chamber.

    Evidence

    Proof of liability insurance shall be a document showing that liability insurance was established in the Republic of Slovenia or in a state party, under the condition that such insurance covers any damage caused in the Republic of Slovenia.

    The competent authority shall accept as sufficient evidence a certificate to that effect issued by a bank or insurance undertaking of the Contracting State of origin. Where the competent authority has reasonable doubt as to the validity of older evidence, it may request that evidence not be older than three months.

    Legal basis

  • The individual concerned must be a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia or any other Member State of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) or the Swiss Confederation.

  • The applicant shall have:

    suitable university degree in the field of architectural design and at least three years work experience in the field of the preparation of spatial planning documents or

    suitable professionally oriented higher education in the field of architectural design and at least five years work experience in the field of the preparation of spatial planning documents.

    Evidence

    For education obtained in Slovenia:

    • diploma or certificate – original, certified copy or non-certified copy with the possibility to see the original;

    for education obtained in the EU:

    • diploma, certificate, other evidence of formal education obtained in the EU – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene;
    • evidence on the content and course of training including information about the duration and syllabus of the study programme, demonstrating the number of hours or credit points of individual subjects – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene;

    for work experience:

    • written statement of a natural person or legal entity, which fulfils the conditions for a responsible designer for spatial planning with the A licence prescribed by law, that the applicant has performed a certain type of desingning services with them including the type and time of performing such services and also responsible designera for spatial planning with the A licence the applicant cooperated with – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene.

    Legal basis

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  • An individual must meet all the prescribed conditions for exercising a regulated profession in his or her country of origin.

    An individual must have appropriate professional qualifications for performing services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    If the profession is not regulated in the country of origin, the individual must have provided the services to be provided in the Republic of Slovenia continuously or cumulatively for at least two years in the last 10-year period before he or she may start providing these services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    Evidence

    A diploma, a certificate and other documents confirming the applicant's level of education, professional competence, experience and other competencies, and certificates attesting to the type and content of training completed.

    Legal basis

  • Insurance against liability for damages that might be incurred by an investor or a third party in connection with the pursuit of architectural and engineering activities may be concluded as:

    • a comprehensive guarantee, which shall be renewed annually; or
    • as collateral for a particular transaction falling within the scope of the economic operator’s activity.

    The insurance shall cover the liability for negligence resulting in damage or material defect and including among direct material damage (damage and destruction) also the costs directly required for the elimination or prevention of damage without the occurrence of any actual damage.

    The damage that must be covered by insurance also includes:

    • damage in the form of a reduction in the value of the business transaction or construction, and
    • other damage resulting from a claim made by an investor or a third party.

    The liability insurance must cover the damage for actions taken during the period of insurance or for actions for which a loss event notice has been filed during the period of the insurance.

    The insurance amount for all insurance cases in a given year or for an individual transaction, if the insurance is taken out for a particular business operation, shall not be less than EUR 50,000.

    The insurance policy must contain the following:

    • the names of the certified architects and engineers covered by the insurance, or
    • the general clause that the liability insurance covers all certified architects and engineers in the economic operator.

    Insurance may also take the form of collective insurance through the Chamber.

    Evidence

    Proof of liability insurance shall be a document showing that liability insurance was established in the Republic of Slovenia or in a state party, under the condition that such insurance covers any damage caused in the Republic of Slovenia.

    The competent authority shall accept as sufficient evidence a certificate to that effect issued by a bank or insurance undertaking of the Contracting State of origin. Where the competent authority has reasonable doubt as to the validity of older evidence, it may request that evidence not be older than three months.

    Legal basis

  • The individual concerned must be a citizen of the Republic of Slovenia or any other Member State of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) or the Swiss Confederation.

  • The applicant shall have:

    • suitable university degree in the field of landscape architectural design and :
      • at least three years work experience in the field of landscape architectural design or
    • suitable professionally oriented higher education in the field of landscape architectural design and:
      • at least five years of service in the field of landscape architectural design.

    Evidence

    For education obtained in Slovenia:

    • diploma or certificate – original, certified copy or non-certified copy with the possibility to see the original;

    For education obtained in the EU:

    • diploma, certificate, other evidence of formal education obtained in the EU – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene;
    • evidence on the content and course of training including information about the duration and syllabus of the study programme, demonstrating the number of hours or credit points of individual subjects – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene;

    For work experience:

    • written statement of a natural person or legal entity, which fulfils the conditions for a responsible designer in landscape architecture prescribed by law, that the applicant has performed a certain type of services with them including the type and time of performing such services and also responsible designers in landscape architecture the applicant cooperated with – original or certified copy with attached certified translation into Slovene.

    Legal basis

  • An individual must meet all the prescribed conditions for exercising a regulated profession in his or her country of origin.

    An individual must have appropriate professional qualifications for performing services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    If the profession is not regulated in the country of origin, the individual must have provided the services to be provided in the Republic of Slovenia continuously or cumulatively for at least two years in the last 10-year period before he or she may start providing these services in the Republic of Slovenia.

    Evidence

    A diploma, a certificate and other documents confirming the applicant's level of education, professional competence, experience and other competencies, and certificates attesting to the type and content of training completed.

    Legal basis

  • Insurance against liability for damages that might be incurred by an investor or a third party in connection with the pursuit of architectural and engineering activities may be concluded as:

    • a comprehensive guarantee, which shall be renewed annually; or
    • as collateral for a particular transaction falling within the scope of the economic operator’s activity.

    The insurance shall cover the liability for negligence resulting in damage or material defect and including among direct material damage (damage and destruction) also the costs directly required for the elimination or prevention of damage without the occurrence of any actual damage.

    The damage that must be covered by insurance also includes:

    • damage in the form of a reduction in the value of the business transaction or construction, and
    • other damage resulting from a claim made by an investor or a third party.

    The liability insurance must cover the damage for actions taken during the period of insurance or for actions for which a loss event notice has been filed during the period of the insurance.

    The insurance amount for all insurance cases in a given year or for an individual transaction, if the insurance is taken out for a particular business operation, shall not be less than EUR 50,000.

    The insurance policy must contain the following:

    • the names of the certified architects and engineers covered by the insurance, or
    • the general clause that the liability insurance covers all certified architects and engineers in the economic operator.

    Insurance may also take the form of collective insurance through the Chamber.

    Evidence

    Proof of liability insurance shall be a document showing that liability insurance was established in the Republic of Slovenia or in a state party, under the condition that such insurance covers any damage caused in the Republic of Slovenia.

    The competent authority shall accept as sufficient evidence a certificate to that effect issued by a bank or insurance undertaking of the Contracting State of origin. Where the competent authority has reasonable doubt as to the validity of older evidence, it may request that evidence not be older than three months.

    Legal basis