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One Year to Drive on a Foreign Licence, Two if You Are Slovene Coming Home, and a Practical Test to Exchange It Unless the Minister Has Listed Your Country

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Peru on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Peru to Slovenia · Driving and licence exchange

Article 66(1) of ZVoz-1 lets a foreign national who has a usual residence in Slovenia and a registered address on the strength of a residence permit drive on a valid foreign licence, subject to reciprocity, for one year from the day the address was registered. Article 66(2) gives a Slovene citizen returning from abroad two years on the same facts, which is a distinction most countries do not draw. Licences issued by another member state, Liechtenstein, Norway or Iceland are outside all of that: article 66(5) lets the holder drive what the licence allows, with no clock. Exchange is article 67. A holder of a valid foreign licence with a usual residence here may ask for a Slovene one, but article 67(3) makes the Slovene licence conditional on passing the practical part of the driving test for the categories concerned. Article 67(6) is the exception that matters: the transport minister may by rulebook list the countries whose holders need not take it, on an assessment of the quality of their training and road safety. A licence not compliant with the Vienna Convention has to be carried with an international driving permit, an international permit cannot be exchanged at all, and the foreign licence is handed in and returned to the authority that issued it.

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At a glance

Driving on a foreign licence
One year from registering your address

Article 66(1) of ZVoz-1, which also requires reciprocity.

A returning Slovene citizen
Two years

Article 66(2) of ZVoz-1, which gives a citizen twice as long as a foreign national on the same facts.

EU, EEA and Swiss-adjacent licences
No time limit

Article 66(5) of ZVoz-1 covers licences issued by another member state, Liechtenstein, Norway or Iceland.

Exchanging a third-country licence
The practical test, unless your country is on the minister's list

Article 67(3) of ZVoz-1 imposes it and article 67(6) lets the transport minister exempt countries by rulebook.

Proof of where you got it
Usual residence in the issuing state, or six months of study there

Article 67(11) of ZVoz-1, which applies to Slovene citizens and foreign nationals alike.

International driving permits
Cannot be exchanged

Article 67(13) of ZVoz-1 says so in terms; article 66(3) still requires one alongside a licence that is not Vienna Convention compliant.

Requirements

  • A usual residence in Slovenia and a registered address, to rely on a foreign licence at all
  • Exchange within one year of registering the address, or two years for a returning Slovene citizen
  • The practical part of the driving test, unless the minister's rulebook exempts the issuing country
  • Proof that you met the usual-residence condition in the issuing state, or studied there at least six months

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Peru

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedZakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9 · 66. člen, prvi odstavek · consolidated to 2026-02-28
«Tujec, ki ima običajno prebivališče v Republiki Sloveniji in na podlagi dovoljenja za prebivanje v Republiki Sloveniji prijavljeno prebivališče, sme z veljavnim vozniškim dovoljenjem, ki mu ga je izdal pristojni organ tuje države, in ob vzajemnosti voziti v Republiki Sloveniji tista motorna vozila, ki jih sme voziti po veljavnem vozniškem dovoljenju, izdanem v tujini, in sicer eno leto od dneva prijave prebivališča v Republiki Sloveniji.»

Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.

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The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedZakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9 · 66. člen, drugi odstavek · consolidated to 2026-02-28
«Državljan Republike Slovenije, ki začasno ali stalno prebiva ali je prebival v tujini in pride začasno ali stalno v Republiko Slovenijo, sme z veljavnim vozniškim dovoljenjem, ki mu ga je izdal pristojni organ tuje države, voziti tista motorna vozila, ki jih sme voziti po veljavnem vozniškem dovoljenju, izdanem v tujini, in sicer dve leti od dneva prijave prebivališča v Republiki Sloveniji.»

Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.

Read it at the source
About this source

The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedZakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9 · 67. člen, prvi odstavek · consolidated to 2026-02-28
«Imetnik veljavnega vozniškega dovoljenja, izdanega v tujini, ki ima v Republiki Sloveniji običajno prebivališče, lahko, če izpolnjuje druge s tem zakonom določene pogoje za vožnjo motornih vozil, zahteva zamenjavo tega vozniškega dovoljenja za slovensko vozniško dovoljenje.»

Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.

Read it at the source
About this source

The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedZakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9 · 67. člen, tretji odstavek · consolidated to 2026-02-28
«Slovensko vozniško dovoljenje se izda, če imetnik veljavnega vozniškega dovoljenja, izdanega v tujini, opravi praktični del vozniškega izpita za tiste kategorije vozil, ki jih sme voziti z vozniškim dovoljenjem, izdanem v tujini, in osebi, ki je že imela veljavno slovensko vozniško dovoljenje. Oseba, ki opravi praktični del vozniškega izpita za vožnjo vozil kategorij BE, C1E, CE, D1E ali DE, se ji v slovensko vozniško dovoljenje vpišejo tudi kategorije B, C1, C, D1 ali D.»

The practical test, and the categories it carries with it. Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.

Read it at the source
About this source

The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

Text layer - verbatim verifiedZakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9 · 67. člen, enajsti odstavek · consolidated to 2026-02-28
«Tujcu in državljanu Republike Slovenije se zamenja vozniško dovoljenje, izdano v tujini, s slovenskim vozniškim dovoljenjem, če dokaže, da je v državi, ki je izdala vozniško dovoljenje, izpolnil pogoj običajnega prebivališča ali je študiral v tej državi najmanj šest mescev.»

The anti-licence-tourism rule. The publisher's spelling of mescev is left as it stands. Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.

Read it at the source
About this source

The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

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Practical notes

Read off ZVoz-1 in the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation number 9, which the publisher dates from 28 February 2026 and which carries ZVoz-1G of 27 February 2026.

We did not read the transport minister's rulebook under article 67(6), so this record does not say which countries are exempt from the practical test. The Act names the rulebook and that is as far as we went.

The one-year clock runs from the day the address was registered, not from arrival and not from the date of the residence permit. Article 66(1) says so twice over, in the condition and in the measure.

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    Zakon o voznikih (ZVoz-1), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 9

    Pravno-informacijski sistem Republike Slovenije · consolidated to 2026-02-28

    About this source

    The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.

    We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source