Slovakia

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. We also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

Law on Judicial Rehabilitation (119/1990) (see text here)

1990

Act No. 403/1990 Coll. on the Mitigation of the Consequences of Certain Property Losses (see text here)

1990

Constitutional Act No. 496/1990 Coll. on the Reversion of Property of the Communist Party to the People of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (see text here)

1990

Law on Extrajudicial Rehabilitation (87/1991) (see text here)

1991

Constitutional Act No. 497/1990 Coll. on the Reversion of Property of the Socialist Youth Organization to the People of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (see text here)

1990

Act No. 319/1991 on the Mitigation of Certain Property and Other Injustices and on the Responsibilities of the Organs of State Administration of the Slovak Republic in the Area of Extrajudicial Rehabilitation (see text here)

1991

Act 451/1991 Lustration Law passed by the Czech and Slovak federative Republic (see text here)

1991

Act No. 480/1991 Coll on the Period of the Lack of Freedom (see text here)

1991

Act No. 282/1993 on the Mitigation of Certain Property Injustices Caused to Churches and Religious Societies (see text here)

1993

Act No. 125/1996, on the Immorality and Illegality of the Communist Regime (see text here)

1996

Act No. 305/1999 Coll. on the Mitigation of Certain Injustices to Persons Deported to Nazi Concentration Camps and Prisoner of War Camps (see text here)

1999

Act No. 105/2002 Coll. on the Provision of a Single Financial Contribution to Soldiers of Czechoslovak Foreign or Allied Armed Forces and to Persons Who Participated in Domestic Resistance in the Period from 1939 to 1945 (see text here)

2002

Act No. 462/2002 Coll. on the Provision of a Single Financial Contribution to Political Prisoners (see text here)

2002

Act No. 553/2002 Coll. on Disclosure of Documents Regarding the Activity of State Security Authorities in the Period 1939 - 1989 and on Founding the Nation’s Memory Institute (see text here)

2002

Act No. 547/2005 Coll. on the Compensation of Victims of the Occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People’s Republic, the Hungarian People’s Republic, and the Bulgarian People’s Republic (see text here)

2005

Denial legislation (Article 422 of the Criminal code)

2005

Act No. 219/2006 on Anti-Communist Resistance (see text here)

2006