Analysis of providing utility services to building sites and public utilities charges levied in relation to changing legislation in the Republic of Slovenia

摘要

Diploma thesis deals with the problem of calculating the public utilities charges and programsudproviding utility services to building sites in various municipalities in Slovenia, according toudvarious laws and regulations governing the calculation of utility charges. Theoretical partudintroduces the principles for the calculation of municipal public utilities charges, followed byudanalysis and comparison of the laws and regulations which, in the period from 1999 to 2007,udregulate the elaboration of programs providing utility services and calculation of municipaludpublic utilities charges. The empirical part presents concrete areas providing utility services,udthe municipality Škofja Loka – Kamnitnik I and the municipality Vodice – Pustnice, forudwhich public utilities charges are calculated and programs providing utility services areudpresented. The last chapter elaborates the calculations of the public utilities charges of the twoudareas with programs providing utility services under different applicable laws. It is establishedudthat the municipal contribution was never charged equally. Qualitatively, in the municipalityudof Škofja Loka, the said public utilities charge was under the laws and regulations of 1999udhigher than under the laws and regulations of 2004 and 2007, which, however, does not holdudtrue for municipality of Vodice, where it was lower under the laws and regulations of 1999udthan under the laws and regulations of 2004 and 2007. The legislation on the national leveludand regulations of local communities, governing elaboration of programs providing utilityudservices and calculation of municipal public utilities charges, should be – consistently takingudinto account of the theoretical origins, the elaboration of quality construction master plans andudthe establishment of official registers – adapted in a way that a public utility charge wouldudrepresent an investor’s just contribution for the municipal infrastructure construction ratherudthan a certain indispensable duty, to which actually resembles.