Law on spatial planning.

This Law determines the objectives, principles and rules of spatial planning, participants operating in this field, types of spatial acts, their content and mutual relations, procedures for their preparation and adoption, their implementation and placement procedures, detailed planning and permitting of spatial arrangements of national importance. It also determines spatial measures and other acts of spatial planning, land policy instruments and measures, and regulates the monitoring of the state of spatial development, the operation of the spatial information system and the issuing of certificates in the field of spatial planning. Spatial planning according to this Law is a continuous process, which includes spatial planning, the process of placement, detailed planning and permitting of spatial arrangements of national importance, the implementation of land policy measures and the preparation and adoption of other acts of spatial planning, monitoring of the state of spatial development, implementation of interventions in space, inspection control and provision of related information services. Spatial planning promotes sustainable spatial development, which, taking into account the goals of spatial planning and monitoring the state of spatial development, enables meeting the needs of the current generation, while at the same time not jeopardizing the meeting of the needs of future generations. Sustainable spatial development is achieved in spatial planning processes by coordinating social, economic and environmental aspects of development with the spatial potential of areas. Sustainable spatial development ensures the quality of life, the fair, rational and efficient use of spatial potential, land and facilities, the accessibility of services of social and economic importance, and the coordinated and complementary deployment of activities in space. Sustainable spatial development is ensured by checking the necessity of spatial arrangements and the adequacy of spatial potentials, weighing the appropriateness and evaluating the impacts of spatial arrangements in such a way as to choose an option that provides synergies between social, economic and environmental aspects in the most optimal way. Spatial planning takes into account the expected impacts of climate change and ensures adaptation to them. Spatial arrangements are planned in such a way that they are resistant to climate change, enable mitigating climate change and reducing its impacts.
The purpose of spatial planning is to achieve sustainable spatial development through the comprehensive consideration, coordination and management of its social, environmental and economic aspects, so that the goals of spatial planning, which are in the public interest: ensure the preparation, acceptance and implementation of spatial acts; protects space as a limited natural resource; enable quality living conditions and a healthy living environment; ensures rational use of space and preserves spatial capacities for current and future generations; ensure spatially coordinated and mutually complementary multi-functional deployment of various activities in the space; create and preserve recognizable features and cultural identity in the space; enables a polycentric system of settlement development; enables the urban development of cities and wider urban areas, based on smart city management according to the principle of smart cities; create, protect and develop quality cities and other settlements; enables appropriate and universal access to social and economic public infrastructure and public areas; creates and protects the variety, visibility and quality of the landscape; enables adaptation to climate change; enables the transition to a low-carbon society based on a circular economy, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, efficient use of energy and use of renewable energy sources; makes it possible to strengthen and protect people's health; enables environmental protection, nature conservation, protection of cultural heritage, protection of agricultural land and other spatial qualities; creates conditions for reducing and preventing natural or other disasters; enables the defense of the country. In the field of spatial planning, the state is responsible for: determining the goals of the country's spatial development; determination of starting points, rules and guidelines; preparation of programs to support spatial and urban development; preparation of the Spatial Development Strategy of Slovenia and action programs for its implementation; coordination of departments in the preparation of regional spatial plans; implementation of state spatial planning procedures; participation in the procedures for the preparation of spatial acts at the municipal and inter-municipal level; implementation of spatial measures and tasks of land policy, including the preparation of other spatial planning acts at the state level; exercising control over the legality of spatial planning at the level of municipalities and the implementation of land policy and land management measures; performing tasks related to the operation of the spatial information system and monitoring the state of spatial development; development tasks in the field of spatial planning; implementing and allocating funds for education and awareness programs on spatial planning; issuing opinions on compliance with state spatial implementing acts in procedures for issuing building permits in accordance with the regulations governing construction; inspection control over the implementation of state spatial acts, if this is not the subject of inspection procedures and powers established in accordance with another law. In the field of spatial planning, the municipality is responsible for: preparation of spatial acts at the municipal and inter-municipal level; cooperation in the preparation of regional spatial plans; participation in the preparation of spatial acts of the state; determining the goals and starting points of the spatial development of the municipality; planning spatial arrangements of local importance and determining the intended use of space and spatial implementation conditions in its area with spatial acts; implementation of spatial measures and tasks of land policy, including the preparation of other spatial planning acts at the local level; performing tasks related to the operation of the spatial information system; performing tasks related to the preparation of programs to support spatial and urban development; implementing and allocating funds for education and awareness programs on spatial planning; issuing consents or opinions on the compliance of interventions, construction or use of space with spatial implementing acts within their jurisdiction in accordance with this law and in the procedures for issuing building permits in accordance with the regulations governing construction; inspection control over the implementation of municipal zoning acts, if this is not the subject of inspection procedures and powers established in accordance with another law.