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4) Decide about the National Council’s name, symbols and seal;
5) Determine national symbols, emblems and holidays of national minorities;
6) Found institutions, associations, funds and business organisations in the field of education, culture, informing and official use of language and
script as well as in other areas which are important for the preservation of a national minority’s identity;
7) Put forward a national minority representative in the council on interethnic relations in local self-government unit;
8) Determine and award recognitions;
9) Initiate the adoption of and monitor the implementation of law and other normative acts in the field of culture, education, informing and
official use of language and script;
10) Participate in drafting regulations and motion amendments to legislation which regulates national minority rights guaranteed by the
Constitution in the field of culture, education, informing and official use of language and script;
11) Motion the adoption of special legal instruments and provisional measures in domains in which right to self-government is realised, so as to
achieve full equality among national minority members and citizens belonging to the majority nation;
12) Start the procedures before the Constitutional Court, the Citizens’ Protector, regional and local Ombudsman, and other competent bodies;
when assessing that rights and freedoms of persons belonging to national minorities guaranteed by the Constitution and law have being violated
13) Star the procedure mentioned under paragraph 12 of this article on behalf of person belonging to national minority with his/her prior
authorisation
14) Take positions, start initiatives and take measures in all issues which are directly related to a national minority’s status, identity and rights
15) . Rule on other issues entrusted to it by law or acts of the autonomous province and local self-government unit;
2. Competences in the field of education
Right of establishment
Article 11
The National Council may, in accordance with law, establish educational institutions; those related to pupils’ and students’ standards and
exercise the rights and obligations of the founder.
The institutions from paragraph 1 of this Article shall be established by the National Council itself or in co-operation with the Republic,
autonomous province, local self-government unit or other legal personality in accordance with law.
The Republic, autonomous province or local self-government unit, acting as founders referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, may delegate
their right of establishment, in its entirety or to a degree, to the National Council.
Participation in the institutional management
Article 12
In pre-school facilities and primary and high schools, which are founded by the Republic, autonomous province or local self-government unit and
where a nationality minority language is used in the education work, or which have a special school subject dealing with speech, language or
culture of a national minority, the National Council shall:
1) Give opinion on proposed candidates for membership in the management, i.e. school board – local self-government unit representatives;
2) Put forward candidates for membership in the management, i.e. school board – local self-government unit representatives at the institutions
where in most of the classes teaching is done in a national minority language and which were defined as institutions of particular importance for
the national minority;
3) Give opinion on the candidate running for director of the institution from paragraph 1, points 1 of this Article;
4) Give opinion on the procedure for dismissing director and members of the management board in the institutions from paragraph 1, point 1
and 2 of this Article.
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