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detailed answers to the questions we received about the functions of the
local authorities.
Now, the third speaker will be Mr. Jernej Rovsek, the Acting Ombudsman of
Slovenia. He will talk about Ombudsman and Anti-discrimination.
Please.

JERNEJ ROVŠEK (Acting Ombudsman of Slovenia) –

Thank you Chair,
Ombudsman,
Distinguished guests,

Thank you very much for invitation. This is my first time in Turkey also
first time in this seminar so in my first part I will very briefly introduced
the Ombudsman Institution of Slovenia. And on the second part I
will explain how we dealt with the cases of discrimination within the
ombudsman office.
I work for ombudsman for 20 years and before that I was at the
National Human Rights Institution so I worked in this area for 25
years already and probably this is the last year I will work before my
pension. So, very briefly the ombudsman institution was introduced
in 1991 constitution on the basis of this constitution provision the
ombudsman act was adopted at the national assembly in 1993. And
after the election of ombudsman and deputies we officially started 1
st
January 1995. According to constitution we have powers only in relation
to the public bodies. I will mention only one very specific feature of our
ombudsman act because it states that the ombudsman is obliged to
act only in accordance with a constitution provision and international
legal acts governing human rights and freedoms. And specific laws
are not intentionally stated in the law as the basis for ombudsman
operation. And we will use this these days in this migration crisis.
Because the laws also in my country are not adapted to the situation
which we face in this area so we will invoke only international legal
treaties and constitutional rights.

In our intervention according to the law we may refer to the principles
of justice and good administration and we use this very often. And on
this basis we can propose sometimes exceptional solution in cases not

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