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Slovakia

Law No. 22/2004 on Electronic Commerce

The Act implements e-Commerce Directive into Slovak law incorporating mere conduit, caching and hosting safe harbors, and prohibition of general monitoring obligation (§ 6). The implementation is of very inferior quality and misimplements several mechanisms that are most of the time possible to correct by the interpretation.
Legislation
Slovakia

Law No. 40/1964 Civil Code

The Civil Code provides for all general tort law basis for liability including vicarious liability, wrongful omission, liability as a participant, etc. It regulates substantial part of the private law. Intellectual property rights are regulated by special acts.
Slovakia

General Resources - Slovakia

EU Study on ISP liability, http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/e-commerce/docs/study/liability/slovak_republic_12nov2007_en.pdf European Information Society Institute, www.eisionline.org Hutko's Technology Law Blog, www.husovec.eu Lexforum.sk, www.lexforum.sk Blog priateľov EISi Blog of friends of EISi, www.blog.eisionline.org
Paper/Research
Slovenia

Slovenia Study on blocking, filtering and take-down of illegal Internet content

(prepared by Swiss Institute of Comparative Law for Council of Europe)
This is one of series of country reports prepared for the Council of Europe in 2015. Other countries' reports, and responses from national governments, are available here. The studies undertake to present the laws and, in so far as information is easily available, the practices concerning the filtering, blocking and takedown of illegal content on the internet.
Proposed Law
Slovenia

Draft Law on Amending and Supplementing the Media Act

(1) The Ministry of Culture released a new Draft Law on Amending and Supplementing the Media Act, which states that in order to regulate hate speech – especially on online media platforms – the "editor-in-chief" should be held liable for user-generated content (comments and other audiovisual material). Furthermore, the "editor-in-chief" must implement and publish rules for the selection and inclusion of comments. All comments that are not in line with such rules must be deleted in the shortest time possible. Failing to meet listed obligations constitutes a misdemeanor for which the "editor-in-chief" could be fined between 500 and 5000 euros. (2) The Information Commissioner has already expressed concerns regarding the purposed amendments by stating that such obligations could seriously impede constitutionally protected...
Court Decision
Slovenia

Higher Court in Maribor, VSM sodba I Cp 11/2015

The Court upheld the decision of the court of first instance which imposed liability on the operator of a discussion forum for failing to remove defamatory statements, written by its users. The Court stated that the defendant was acting as a host provider under the meaning of article 11 of ZEPT (article 14 of eCommerce directive); therefore, he was obliged to immediately remove or disable access to the infringing statements, as soon as he was informed of their illegal nature. The court concluded that in failing to do so, the discussion forum operator was liable for the unlawful conduct of its users.