​Central

The central government is responsible for the overall policy and legislation in the field of transport.[1]

At the national level, the central government is responsible for:

• Transport infrastructure;
• Transport safety;
• Research and development in transport;
• Transport market liberalisation;
• Public passenger transport policy, and
• The development of environmentally‑friendly transport etc.

Furthermore, Central Administration bodies have the following powers and responsibilities by Transport area:

Railway Transport[2]:

• State administration over railroads.
• investigates accidents and incidents occurring on the rail road.
• Determines priorities of state transport policy and regulation of traffic on the railroad.
• Is the ordering party of the rail transport in personal public transport

Road Transport[3]:

• Manages and supervises state administration in the field of road transport.
• Manages driving schools and instructor licenses, curriculum courses, and technical requirements for trainers.
• Oversees the national system of technical inspections, and emission checks.
• Licenses for regular bus services and approves international bus service timetables
• Ensures proportional development of motorways and expressways with respect to considered international road routes
• Ensures adequate quality of transport routes
• Impose penalties for any administrative offences and resolve any violations within its jurisdiction.
• Execution of competences of special construction office for highways and motorways.

Aviation:

• Formulates air transport policy
• The development of air transport.

• Inspecting compliance with the rules for determining the amount and collection of charges for the use of public airports and air traffic services on international flights,
• Imposes fines on legal entities and natural persons authorised to do business in the field of air traffic and air traffic,

• Modernises international airports and other airports with the potential of regional and local use. 

Water Transport (Department Waterway Maritime Authority) and Maritime (Department of Naval Authority):

• Development of water transport,
• Assesses proposals for the construction of new ports and waterways and the reconstruction and modernisation of existing public ports.
• Enforcing the regulation of inland navigation, including licenses for land-use and determining the establishment and territory of ports.
• Grants and withdraws licenses for the technical inspection of vessels.

Imposes sanctions under the law on inland waterway transport.

Regional

Regional authorities are responsible for:

• Planning, preparation and construction of roads owned by the region in compliance with the State Concept of Highways and Roads and in accordance with the main direction of transport policy;
• Providing information on planning, preparation, and construction of  roads owned by the Region;
• Ensuring of constructive and technical equipment of roads owned by the region;
• Ensuring the efficiency of expenditure for providing public transport services in their area of responsibility.
• Execution of state administration in the field of local public transport (tram and trolley transport);
• Imposing fines for other administrative offenses committed in regular bus transport in its territory, except urban public transport;
• The granting and withdrawal of transport licenses for regular bus transport
• Is the ordering party of bus transport in regional territory,
• Preparing the plans for insurance of transport services in the Region and concluding contracts on transport services with the carriers of regular transport, excepted urban public transport
• Controlling of transport services' performance and providing them benefits  
• Is the ordering party of the regional rail transport and urban and suburban rail transport in personal public transport whose ordering party is not the ministry,
• covering losses according to contract for transport services in the public interest, and this in the limited amount approved in the regional budget for this purpose   
•  Approving timetables of regular bus transport, except urban public transport

Execution of state administration dedicated to:

• Execution of competences of special construction office for second and third class roads.

• The construction of urban roads and buildings in their protected zone,
• The issuance and the cancelation of authorisation of running (administration) of urban roads
• The issuance and the withdrawal of driving licence for the public transport vehicle
• The imposition of fine on the keepers (operators) of public transport
• The imposition of fine for offences regarding the construction of urban roads against the Uniform building code
• The issuance and the deprivation of licences for the provision of public transport services on urban roads

Local

Municipal authorities are responsible for:

• The construction, maintenance, and administration of local roads.

• Creating conditions for preferring public transport by modernisation and development of road infrastructure of towns and villages to satisfy the needs of regional and urban transport.

• Improving the technical parameters of local communications and ensuring their development and necessary standard of maintenance, repair and systematic renewal.
• The provision of technical data from the records of roads and local roads.
• Ensuring of constructive and technical equipment of roads owned by the municipality.
• Ensuring the efficiency of expenditure for providing public transport services in their area of responsibility.
• The planning, financing, and organisation of Urban Public Transport services in their area of responsibility (if municipality is Urban).

Execution of competences of special construction office for local roads.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunication of the Slovak Republic

[1] Ministry Website, https://www.mindop.sk/en

[2] Article 3 (3) of the Transport Policy Statute.

[3] National Transport Authority, Ministry of Transport Website, https://www.mindop.sk/ministry-5191/transport/national-transport-authority

Sources

National Council of the Slovak Republic Act No.221/1996 on the Slovak Republic Territorial and Administrative Organisation, last amendment 453/2001.

National Council of the Slovak Republic Act No.302/2001 on the Government of Higher Territorial Units (Law on the region), last amendment 177/2018.

National Council of the Slovak Republic Act No.416/2001 on the transfer of some competences from State administration to Municipalities and higher territorial units, last amendment 440/2015.

National Council of the Slovak Republic Act No.222/1996 on the Organisation of Local State Administration, last amendment 180/2014.

Slovak National Council Act No. 369/1990 on Municipalities, last amendment 5/2019.

National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Act No. 135/1996 on Roads, last amendment 106/2018.