The following legal instruments provide (legally binding) basis for public participation in Slovenia:

• Acces to Public Information Act,
• Rules of government procedure (March 2006), which contain obligation of  public consultations before adopting the regulations and strategic documents;
• Methodology for Implementation and Monitoring of the Statement on Reduction of Administrative Burdens and Participation of Interested Publics, which contains monitoring the implementation of consultations with NGOs – the line ministries need to complete a special questionnaire to verify this, and more than 30% of the draft proposals were returned to line ministries to be supplemented because they did not adequately follow and complete the questionnaire.
• Resolution on normative activities of the Government (november 2009), which contains minimal standards for consulting the public – including the minimum duration of consultation (30 days)

Strategic documents include:

Government Strategy of the NGO sector in Slovenia was prepared back in 2003 and considers the role of NGOs in civil society, their influence on specific government decisions and their task in providing public services. The formal appointment of the Governmental Commission and National Coordinator by the Council of Ministers as a responsible structure for developing and implementing NGO policy in Slovenia established the institutional framework.

Agreement between the Government and NGOs was also drafted – but never endorsed by the government. The process of preparing an agreement between the Government and NGOs began on the first yearly NGO forum in Slovenia in 2002, with the support of the joint project implemented by four NGOs that in 2003 prepared the draft of the Strategy of the Systemic Development of NGOs: CNVOS, Legal-information Centre for NGOs, Sent - Slovenian Association for Mental Health and Umanotera - the Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development. In July 2003, the Initiative for the future of NGOs was established as informal network of individuals working together in order to start negotiations with the government. The negotiations started in the summer of 2004 in order to prepare the draft agreement – which was finalized in November 2004 with financial support from the Government.