Registration for/deregistration from insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases (M12 form)

Insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases is a specific type of insurance that is compulsory for persons who pursue the activities referred to in Articles 17 and 18 of the Healthcare and Health Insurance Act (Zakon o zdravstvenem varstvu in zdravstvenem zavarovanju – ZZVZZ). Company employees already have this insurance based on their registration for compulsory social security insurance submitted using the M-1 form. For the activities referred to in Articles 17 and 18 of the ZZVZZ, the insured person is registered for or withdraws from insurance using the M12 form.

Electronically via the SPOT website:

• Business entities liable for registration that are registered in the Slovenian Business Register (e.g. company, sole trader, person who independently pursues a professional activity, institute).

In person at a SPOT point:

• Business entities liable for registration that are registered in the Slovenian Business Register (e.g. company, sole trader, person who independently pursues a professional activity, institute).

In person at the ZZZS or by post to the ZZZS 

• Natural persons – persons liable for registration that are not registered in the Slovenian Business Register (e.g. farmers, members of farm holdings and other persons pursuing agricultural activities in Slovenia as their sole or main occupation).

The natural persons liable for registration shall use the electronically formatted M12 form (PDF) for the application. This format allows you to fill it out and print it on your computer, or you can print a blank form and fill it out manually. Please enter the details for the person you are registering for insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases.

Send the completed form by post or submit it in person at any regional unit or branch office of the ZZZS.

• Registration for/deregistration from insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases (M12 form)

• Instructions for the completion of an electronic application for the registration for/deregistration from insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases (M12 form)
• Navodila za izpolnjevanje obrazca M12 (in Slovene)

The last day for filing application for deregistration from insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases via the SPOT website or at a SPOT point is one day before the date of deletion of business entity from the Slovenian Business Register (PRS).

Once a company is removed from the Slovenian Business Register (PRS), an application for deregistration from insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases is no longer possible via the SPOT website or at a SPOT point. Instead, you will only be able to apply by post, or in person at any regional unit or branch office of the ZZZS.

Under Article 17 of the ZZVZZ, the following are insured against accidents at work and occupational diseases:

• school pupils and students undertaking practical instruction, while working in production or on an internship or educational trips;
• children and adolescents with physical and mental developmental difficulties and children and adolescents who have sustained an accidental head injury and brain damage undertaking practical instruction at training organisations or during obligatory practical work;
• persons who, upon completing their education, undertake voluntary practical training, regardless of whether they receive remuneration for such training;
• disabled military personnel, war-disabled civilians and other disabled persons undergoing occupational rehabilitation or training via practical work and exercises;
• persons who, on the basis of another legal relationship, perform work or provide services for payment, where the earnings received under that legal relationship are treated as income and are not exempt from income tax under the law governing income tax, or are not treated as other income under the law governing income tax (for example, work under a copyright contract or work contract). This applies only in cases where these persons are not at the same time insured on the basis of another point of Article 16 or 18 of the ZZVZZ;
• secondary school pupils and post-secondary and university-level students performing work via authorised organisations;
• volunteers;
• persons performing work of general benefit and other work under penal regulations;
• persons pursuing an activity as a secondary occupation;
• persons performing short-term work under the regulations governing the prevention of undeclared work and employment, and persons performing work on a temporary or casual basis under the regulations governing the labour market.

Under Article 18 of the ZZVZZ, the following are insured against accidents at work:

• persons engaged in organised public works of general importance, in rescue operations or in protection, rescue and relief in natural and other disasters;
• participants in youth camps in Slovenia;
• persons performing work or tasks in military service or civilian service in lieu of military service, civil protection, the surveillance and intelligence services, or general rescue and relief services or communications units, or persons being trained for defence, protection, rescue and relief;
• persons assisting home affairs authorities and the persons authorised by those authorities to perform their tasks in accordance with the law;
• persons performing the tasks of home affairs authorities as persons in the reserve formations of home affairs authorities;
• persons who perform public and other socially beneficial functions or national duties at the request of state and other authorised authorities.

Insurance for specific cases under ZPIZ-2 is intended for persons carrying out certain activities which create a risk of injury at work or an occupational disease but are not already compulsorily insured by the performance of these activities (for example, as workers, sole proprietors, company members or farmers). Such persons must be insured to be entitled to disability pension, if the performance of these activities results in injury or occupational disease and results in invalidity or death as a result of such injury at work or occupational disease. They are mostly the same persons who are insured for accidents at work and occupational diseases according to the ZZVZZ.

Article 20 of the Pension and Disability Insurance Act (Zakon o pokojninskem in invalidskem zavarovanju – ZPIZ-2) governs the obligation to provide insurance for special cases and sets out who must be insured for these cases, and Article 154 of the ZPIZ-2 provides for contributors. For these persons, contributions are paid for special cases of insurance in lump-sums determined by the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia in accordance with the Decision on the determination of contributions for special cases of insurance, or at the rate of 8.85 %. This Decision specifies the insured persons and contributors, and the method of payment of contributions.

Rights under disability insurance are acquired by insured persons if, during their activities based on which they are insured, there is an injury or occupational disease and a disability or death occurs as a result of such injury at work or occupational disease (special cases insurance). In addition to the occurrence of an insurance case, the payment of contributions is also a condition for the acquisition of rights.

Thus, in the event of injury at work or occupational disease in the performance of a particular work or activity outside compulsory insurance, insured persons acquire the right to a disability pension or, in the event of death, the survivors of the family shall obtain a right to a widow's or survivor's pension equal to that of the insurance case in compulsory insurance.

The period of such insurance for special cases under the provisions of ZPIZ-2 shall not be counted in the insurance period.

More explanations on insurance for special cases according to ZPIZ-2, including a detailed description of insured persons and persons liable to pay the contribution to this insurance can be found on the website of the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia (https://www.zpiz.si/cms/content2019/posebni-primeri-zavarovanja#x1 )