📋 Tender Overview
The Electronic Communications Act imposed on providers of publicly available mobile communication services the obligation to establish and provide a public information and alarm system via mobile phones in the event of current or impending natural or other disasters.
The necessity of this type of notification to secure property and save human lives was also demonstrated in the case of the recent floods and landslides that Slovenia faced this year.
The regulation, adopted on the basis of the law, determines the obligations of telecommunications operators in connection with the establishment and provision of an information and alarm system by sending warning messages to the mobile phones of residents and all others who are in the threatened area during a natural or other disaster. It also determines the method of financing the system and the technical and security requirements for its operation. Given that the provision of these services is in the public interest, funds for the establishment and maintenance of the system are provided in the state budget. Costs of three and a half million euros are planned for the establishment of the system, and 340,000 euros per year for the maintenance of the system for a period of five years.
After the implementation of the regulation, the Ministry of Digital Transformation will publish a public tender to which operators of mobile communication networks can apply. A cellular broadcasting system, the so-called "Cell Broadcast" system, which is already operating in several EU member states, will be established in Slovenia.
With the adoption of the regulation, all normative bases for the practical introduction of the system are provided.
