On 7 December 2016, amendment of Act No. 305/2013 Coll. on e-government was adopted, postponing compulsory activation of electronic mailboxes of legal persons registered in the Commercial Registry to 1 July 2017. Members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic made this decision in accelerated legislative procedure.
Business entities which have not activated their electronic mailboxes for communication with the government will thus have more time for compulsory activation. The original date of 1 January 2017 was postponed to 1 July 2017. The main reason for the postponement of compulsory activation is low number of statutory representatives of legal persons registered in the Commercial Registry who possess electronic ID with electronic chip and personal security code.
The amendment of the E-government Act also establishes a new rule of 10 days. This is the amount of time that an owner of a mailbox has after the activation of the mailbox to apply for authorization for other natural persons who the owner himself authorizes to manage the mailbox.
