{"id":84742,"date":"2023-11-28T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/?page_id=84742"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:26:00","slug":"presidency-of-the-court","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/presidency-of-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency of the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President and the Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as the &#8220;Supreme Administrative Court&#8221;) shall be appointed by the President of the Slovak Republic on the proposal of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic for a term of 5 years. The same person may be appointed President and Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court for a maximum of two consecutive terms. Before the expiry of the term of office, the President of the Slovak Republic may remove the President and the Vice-President only for the reasons specified for removal from the office of judge as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President and Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court may not be members of the Judicial Council of the Supreme Administrative Court, members of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic and may not be judges in cases under Act No. 432\/2021 Coll. on the Disciplinary Code of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic and amending certain acts (hereinafter referred to as the Disciplinary Court Code). Both are subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the plenary of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If no one is appointed to the office of the President of the Supreme Administrative Court or to the office of the Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court, or if the Vice-President is temporarily suspended as a judge at the time when he or she is acting for the President, the urgent tasks of the President shall be performed by the most senior judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in terms of age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office of the President of the Supreme Administrative Court is currently vacant. The Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court is Mari\u00e1n Tren\u010dan, who has been in office since 12 October 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>President of the Supreme Administrative Court<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>manages the Supreme Administrative Court and acts on its behalf,<\/li>\n<li>issues the work schedule of the Supreme Administrative Court and determines the composition of the panels and the division of work between the panels; it also determines the permanent members of the Grand Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court and the four members of the Panel of Competence of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic and the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as assigns the assistants of the judges of the Supreme Administrative Court to the individual judges of the Supreme Administrative Court,<\/li>\n<li>is responsible for compliance with the legal conditions for the random allocation of cases to panels, judges and judicial officers and for the reallocation of cases already allocated,<\/li>\n<li>ensures the management of the Supreme Administrative Court by supervising compliance with the dignity and smoothness of court proceedings and the principles of judicial ethics, uses the results of the internal review and handles complaints,<\/li>\n<li>handles complaints and submissions pursuant to Act No. 757\/2004 Coll. on Courts and on Amendments and Supplements to Certain Acts, as amended, and decides on notifications from judges of the Supreme Administrative Court concerning the grounds for their possible exclusion from hearing and deciding a case and the assignment of the case to another judge and another panel (Sections 88(2) and (3) and 89 of Act No. 162\/2015 Coll., the Administrative Judicial Procedure Code, as amended),<\/li>\n<li>supervises compliance with the principles of judicial ethics, the principles of the dignity of court proceedings and the smooth running of court proceedings and, to that end, supervises the proper functioning of the court departments, monitors and evaluates the regularity of the work of judges and panels in terms of the organisation and efficiency of the work of panels and departments, the efficiency of the use of allocated resources and the efficiency of the use of hearing days,<\/li>\n<li>carrying out checks on court files and their handling,<\/li>\n<li>monitoring compliance with judicial ethics and the conduct of judicial officers and court staff carrying out judicial tasks,<\/li>\n<li>monitors the decision-making activities of judges in terms of the smooth running of court proceedings, in particular monitors the smooth running of court proceedings in cases of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic concerning the decision-making activities of a judge and by which the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic has pronounced a violation of the right to hear a case without unnecessary delay or a violation of other fundamental rights and freedoms, and participates in certain hearings<\/li>\n<li>announces a selection procedure for filling the vacancy of a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court, then appoints three members of the selection committee for filling the vacancy of a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court from among the candidates proposed by the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic (one member) and the Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic (two members),<\/li>\n<li>announces the selection procedure for filling the post of President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court, is subsequently a member of the selection commission for filling the post of President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court and, on the proposal of the Plenary of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Judicial Council of the Supreme Administrative Court, appoints the other two members of that commission,<\/li>\n<li>appoints to the office of President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, on the basis of the results of the selection procedure, and removes persons from that office at their own request,<\/li>\n<li>is authorised to bring a disciplinary action against any judge of the Supreme Administrative Court,<\/li>\n<li>decides on the lifting of the confidentiality of judges and lay judges of the Supreme Administrative Court,<\/li>\n<li>convenes the plenary session of the Supreme Administrative Court, proposes its agenda and presides over its deliberations,<\/li>\n<li>with the consent of the plenary of the Supreme Administrative Court, may establish chambers of the Supreme Administrative Court,<\/li>\n<li>appoints the members of the Supreme Administrative Court&#8217;s Judicial Council and determines their number in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Supreme Administrative Court, designates working groups to draft opinions and performs other tasks in the handling of a request for an opinion,<\/li>\n<li>appoints the head of the Review Division and one permanent member of the Review Division of the Supreme Administrative Court from among the judges of the Supreme Administrative Court for a period of 3 years; other members of the Review Division of the Supreme Administrative Court are appointed by the Supreme Administrative Court on the proposal of the head of the Review Division of the Supreme Administrative Court for a specific period of time or for a specific review (note: the Review Division of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic carries out the review of administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic itself),<\/li>\n<li>through the Chancellery of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, ensures the administration of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic by appointing and dismissing the Head of the Chancellery of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic,<\/li>\n<li>carries out the administration of the Supreme Administrative Court by dealing with the personnel matters of the judges and by ensuring the management of the personnel office,<\/li>\n<li>performs other tasks arising from special regulations (e.g. Act No. 215\/2004 Coll. on the Protection of Classified Information and on Amendments and Supplements to Certain Acts, as amended),<\/li>\n<li>delegates one member of the State Commission for Elections and Control of the Financing of Political Parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court Mari\u00e1n Tren\u010dan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>acts for the President of the Supreme Administrative Court in his absence or when the office of President of the Court is vacant,<\/li>\n<li>performs the tasks that would otherwise be performed by the President of the Collegium of the Supreme Administrative Court (Section 24e(3)(a) and (b), (4)(b) and (d) to (f) and (6), Section 53(2) of Act No. 757\/2004),<\/li>\n<li>carries out the evaluation of 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