Electronic Message Interchange

A non-Slovenian company (hereinafter: user) who intends to start the electronic message exchange with the Slovenian Customs, shall carry out the necessary procedure to obtain registration with the Slovenian Customs.

1) The user shall first obtain the following:

a) qualified digital certificate

The user will need a qualified digital certificate for electronic signature of their messages.  It shall be issued by one of Slovenian certification authorities for digital certificates. If the qualified digital certificate is requred with:

• Halcom-ca, or
• Postar-ca, no Slovenian tax number is needed.

The qualified digital certificate shall be issued for a natural person employed by a legal person. The holder of the qualified digital certificate is expected to be a person authorised by the user for managing their electronic data interchange with the Slovenian Customs (hereinafter: authorised person).

Note: The qualified digital certificate, which is mandatory for electronic signing of messages, can also be used for encryption of electronic messages. However, for the sole purpose of message encryption, a so-called self-signed digital certificate may also be used instead of the qualified digital certificate.

b) identifier

The user must obtain an identifier from a provider of data transmission service. One of the following providers can be chosen:

• Actual I.T.,
• Panteon Group,
• TRINET Informatika,
• ZZI.

The identifier assigned to the user by the data transmission service provider serves as an “address” to identify electronic messages received by the user from the Slovenian Customs.

More detailed information is available from data transmission service providers.

2) When the qualified digital certificate and the identifier have been obtained, the user shall provide the Slovenian Customs (e-mail: hd.carina(at)gov.si), with the following:

• the public part of the qualified digital certificate exported in Base64 format,
• the identifier,
• a duly completed and scanned application form for the authorised person.

3) If any additional information needed the user is kindly asked to contact e-mail: hd.carina(at)gov.si.

4) Once the Slovenian Customs have received all of the above, the user will be registered in the Customs´ information system and will thus be allowed to start electronic message exchange. Upon registration, the user will receive all further information.