CREATING A MODERN SYSTEM OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN SLOVENIA THROUGH THE TRANSFORMATION AND UPGRADING OF ESTABLISHED SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The existing system of civil defence in Slovenia features a whole range of problems and deficiencies, so it needs to be conceptually and organisationally adapted to the changed security and social circumstances. We need faster and above all more open acceptance and implementation of more modern theoretical solutions and practical experiences represented by the concept of a crisis or crisis conditions and crisis management. There is no need to start from scratch, since we should simply upgrade the substance of certain existing solutions and structures, transform them organisationally and provide them with a more appropriate position in the system and hierarchy, thereby strengthening their role. This, therefore, points increasingly to the need to draft a Crisis Management Act, which would represent an appropriate legal and regulatory basis on which it would be possible to establish in Slovenia the functional whole of a modern system of crisis management, which could, for instance, be directed by a national Crisis Management Agency.