August 26 (SeeNews) - Slovenia's central bank said on Friday it is appealing a court ruling on a complaint the bank had filed against the seizure of documents for the purpose of a parliamentary inquiry into bank abuse.
"The Bank of Slovenia filed an appeal against the decision by the Administrative Court by virtue of which it declared itself not competent to rule on an order by Ljubljana District Court," the bank said in a statement.
On the basis of the aforementioned order the Bank of Slovenia handed over minutes of the governor’s internal meetings for the period of 1 January 1997 to 24 April 2015 to the commission of inquiry for identifying abuses in the Slovenian banking system and determining the causes and parties responsible for the second recovery of the banking system in independent Slovenia, it added.
"The Bank of Slovenia is of the opinion that, in connection with the issue of the ruling ordering the Bank of Slovenia to hand over the minutes of the governor’s internal meetings, the District Court failed to allow the Bank of Slovenia to be fully briefed on the request by the commission of inquiry, and to explain to the court the significance of the request from the perspective of the safeguarding of confidential information before its ruling on the request," it said.
In addition, the Bank of Slovenia noted that certain parts of the Administrative Court’s positions also raise issues with regard to the constitutionality of the arrangements in question, and there have been significant absolute breaches of procedure in the administrative dispute.
To date the Bank of Slovenia has handed over all of the requested materials, more than 30,000 pages of documentation containing information on Bank of Slovenia findings and measures in banking supervision.