Reports on the State of the Environment

For more than three decades, the State of the Environment Reports of the Slovak Republic have provided a comprehensive overview of its state and development. They analyze the causes and consequences of this state and monitor development trends. Since 2020, the structure and processing of the report have been adapted to the assessment and implementation of the 2030 Envirostrategy. 

The reports are published by the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the Slovak Environment Agency. 

The citizen's right to information about the environment was enacted by Act No. 17/1992 Coll. on the Environment, which established the obligation for the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic to annually prepare a State of the Environment Report. 

These obligations have also been regulated in more detail by some other acts of the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic - most recently Act No. 205/2004 Coll. on the Collection, Storage and Dissemination of Environmental Information and on Amendments to Certain Acts. 

According to Section 7 of this Act, reports on the state of the environment must contain, in particular, data on the state of the environment and the causes and consequences of this state, as well as data on trends in its development and measures for the protection and improvement of the environment, including international cooperation. 

In contrast to previous legal norms, Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 205/2004 Coll. imposes an obligation for the report on the state of the environment to be disseminated primarily via public telecommunications networks, in particular the Internet.