📋 Tender Overview
The Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia sent a request to the portal 24ur.com for the publication of a correction to the article entitled Wild recruitment of loyal personnel in the state administration?, published on May 28, 2026, by Brigita Potocnik.The article in the section titled Directorate for Water: one day application deadline contains false statements that the Directorate for Water has republished the tender it published on May 7, 2026.
The Directorate for Water did not publish the tender again, but when announcing the public tender for DM 102, there was an error in stating the application deadline. We corrected the error immediately after detection, whereby the call was not republished, but the wrongly stated application deadline was corrected. The application deadline was thus corrected from the erroneously stated one day to the statutory eight days.
We received a question from the same journalist regarding the aforementioned tender, to which we explained in writing that when the public tender for DM 102 was announced at the Directorate for Water, there was an error regarding the application deadline and that we corrected the error as soon as we detected it.
At the same time, the Directorate for Water also explains that the said tender was later annulled.
Since the article does not summarize the entire explanation of the Directorate for Water and creates the impression of non-transparent behavior of the Directorate for Water, we are republishing the questions of the journalist Brigita Potocnik and the answers of the Directorate for Water, which we provided to the journalist in writing and then additionally in the statement in front of the camera, which the d. director of the Directorate for Water Dr. Lidija Kegljevic Zagorc said at the signing of the agreement on the implementation of the project Remediation of damage near Ljubnica, Krumpah and Zep after the floods of August 2023, with which the Directorate for Water and the Municipality of Ljubno continue activities for the restoration of areas affected by the floods of August 2023 and the reduction of flood and erosion risks.
Questions from the journalist that we received on May 19, 2026:
How many permanent job vacancies have you published since March 23? What kind of jobs are these? Are there any other tenders currently in progress?
Have you already hired any of the cabinet staff? Are you planning to do that?
The response of the Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia, which we sent on May 22, 2026:
After 2022, investment in watercourses increased by more than 300 percent, and the Directorate of Water of the Republic of Slovenia achieved the realization of 772 million euros in funds between 2022 and 2026. Such an increase in investments in watercourses also significantly increases the volume of work, which is why the staffing of DRSV was one of the key goals of the ministry. The number of employees increased by 28.3 percent during this period, from 166 employees in 2022 to 213 employees. Thus, on March 23, 2026, there were 213 employees at DRSV, and the same number of employees was also on May 22, 2026. This means that the number of employees did not change during the period for which you are asking.
As of March 23, 2026, the Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia has 11 open-ended public tenders for employment, of which two are professional-technical positions, and nine are clerical positions. Of these, six are tenders for replacement jobs (departure to another job, retirement). Three-member selection committees are appointed at the DRSV for all job vacancies, and the procedures are conducted in accordance with applicable legislation and public sector rules.
The Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia has not employed any cabinet employee until May 22, 2026, but in the tender procedures, in accordance with the applicable regulations, this cannot be an exclusion criterion for candidates.
For a broader understanding of the activities of the Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia during this mandate period, the mandate report of the Water Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia is also publicly available.
