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History
The Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia Act was adopted in October 1993. On the basis of
this Act, the company »Družba za avtoceste v Republiki Sloveniji« (Motorway Company in the Republic of
Slovenia) was established in November 1993 and entered in the court register on 7 December 1993.
Until the end of 2003, DARS d.d. was a public company organised as a limited liability company. Its sole
founder was the Republic of Slovenia, represented by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. DARS
d.d. provided financial engineering services, prepared, organized and conducted the construction and
maintenance of the motorway network, and operated motorways in the Republic of Slovenia in compliance
with the decisions of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.
In December 2003, the Government passed the Act Amending the Motorway Company in the Republic of
Slovenia Act, which regulates issues relating to the establishment, transformation and operations of the
Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia. The new company, DARS d.d., thus has the position of a
limited liability company operating as a commercial company under the Companies Act. The Company’s
sole founder and shareholder is the Republic of Slovenia, represented by the Government of the Republic
of Slovenia.
On 1st January 2004, the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia was transformed from a
public company organised as a limited liability company into a regular commercial company which, on
the basis of a contractual relation with the State, organises and manages motorway construction and
provides financial engineering services on the one side, and, as a concessionaire, successfully operates
and maintains the motorway network and develops and markets new services on the other side. Following
the implementation of the above-mentioned Act, DARS d.d. absorbed the public company »Podjetje za
vzdrževanje avtocest, d.o.o.« (Company for Motorway Management and Maintenance) on 1 January
2004.
In 2006, a uniform Act on the organisation and classification of job positions was adopted and implemented,
thus completing the reorganisation of the Company after its transformation and the absorption of the
Company for Motorway Management and Maintenance in 2004. In August 2006, the first corporate
collective agreement of DARS d.d. was reconciled and signed.
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