Slovenia: Laws on the national flag and arms

Last modified: 2004-11-20 by ivan sache
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• Law of 21 October 1994
  • National flag
  • Coat of arms
  • Flag of the Slovene nation
• Constitution of 24 June 1991

See also:

• Slovenia
• Slovenia: Construction sheets for the flag and arms
• Slovenia: Law on the naval flags

Other site of interest:

• Slovenian Constitution of 1991

Law of 21 October 1994

I received the law on the Slovenian flag from Tomaz Pisanski from the Slovenian Genealogical and Heraldical Society.

The law is entitled Zakon o grbu, zastavi in himni Republike Slovenije ter o slovenski narodni zastavi (The law on the coat of arms, flag and anthem of the Republic of Slovenia and on the flag of Slovene nation), and was published in Uradni List (Official Gazette) # 67/1994 of 27 October 1994, under number 2392.

The law was proclaimed by Milan Kucan, the President of the Republic of Slovenia on 21 October 1994, based on decisions of Slovenian Parliament of 20 July 1994 and 20 October 1994.

National flag

The flag is described and pictured in an addition to the law, that makes integral part of it, entitled Geometrijsko, likovno ter barvno pravilo za oblikovanje zastave Republike Slovenije (Geometric, artistic and colour rules for the shape of the flag of the Republic of Slovenia).
The flag construction sheet pictured there determines the overall proportions of the flag as 1:2, with stripes of equal width white over blue over red. The centerpoint of the coat of arms is defined to be in