Methodology and sources
How the Radar is built, what the statuses mean and which sources we use.
Criteria for the Radar
- The change concerns businesses, sole traders or employers in Slovakia.
- It has been verified in a primary source (an act in the Collection of Laws, a regulation in the Official Journal of the EU) or, where the primary text was not fully available, in at least two independent professional sources.
- We can identify the date and the people affected.
Statuses
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Coming | An adopted law or a deadline in the future. |
| Changed | The change already applies. |
| Proposal | A proposal that has not been adopted; it creates no obligations. |
| Recurring | A regular deadline. |
Status is always shown by text and the shape of a symbol (■ ◆ ◇ ○). Colour is a supplement — the page can be read with colour vision deficiencies too.
Checking and updating
All items and articles in this version were checked as at 12 October 2026. Each item shows the date it was checked; if a source changes, we update the item and move the date forward.
The English version
The English pages say the same as the Slovak pages and rely on the same sources; we add no facts of our own in translation. They are written for foreigners and expats who live, work or do business in Slovakia. Where an official Slovak term is what you will meet in real life — on a form, at an office or in a letter — we give the English and keep the Slovak in brackets the first time, for example “sole trader licence (živnosť)”. Most of the sources are in Slovak and are marked “(in Slovak)”. The English text is an explanation, not an official translation; the binding legal texts are the Slovak ones.
Sources (domains) used in the Radar
abreuadvogados.comaddleshawgoddard.comcm.twobirds.comdatamatters.sidley.comeaccny.comepravo.skeur-lex.europa.eulabs.cloudsecurityalliance.orgpodnikajte.skpodpora.financnasprava.skpravnenoviny.skprighter.comstatic.slov-lex.skteraz.sktrade.ec.europa.euzakonypreludi.sk
What we left out
We did not include items in the Radar that we could not verify — for example the exact status of some transitional provisions, or changes for which we had only one unofficial source.