2.16
OTHER
FIELD OF WORK
16. Other
2014
RESOLVED AND FOUNDED
Index
15/14
2015
NO. OF
RESOLVED
NO. OF
FOUNDED
PERCENTAGE OF
FOUNDED AMONG
RESOLVED
325
307
94.5
275
11
4.0
26
31
119.2
22
2
9.1
16.2 Remedy of injustice
7
7
100.0
6
0
0
16. 3 Personal problems
24
24
100.0
24
0
0
234
221
94.0
201
6
3
16.5 For information
18
10
55.6
9
1
11.1
16.6 Anonymous complaints
16
14
87.5
13
2
15.4
0
0
-
0
0
-
16.1 Legislative complaints
16.4 Explanations
16.7 Ombudsman
2.16 OTHER
CASES CONSIDERED
The Ombudsman received a total of 307 various letters in 2015 which for various reasons could not be classified
as complaints in the sense of Article 27 of the Human Rights Ombudsman Act. Such letters are kept in the
“Other” file and cover a wide range of topics that demand very different methods of examination.
Among the so-called legislative complaints, we include proposals from individuals for legislative or normative
regulation of a certain field or open question, or proposals for existing regulation to be amended. We usually
tell complainants which state body is competent to draft normative changes, and also acquaint them with the
Ombudsman’s activities in the field in question. Depending on the content of proposed normative changes, we
also sometimes acquire an opinion from the competent body which we forward to the complainant.
Most of the work on legislative complaints consists of reviewing the draft acts and implementing regulations sent
by competent state bodies (usually in the procedure of so-called inter-ministerial coordination). Our comments
and proposals are limited to the question of how the proposed changes would affect the implementation of
human rights and fundamental freedoms, but even this requires a thorough examination of all the proposed
solutions, and frequently also special coordination meetings with the producers of regulations.
The complaints that we examine to redress injustice are very rare, because most such complaints are classified
according to the substantive issues concerned (for example, the issue of the erased, reduction of pensions on
the basis of the Fiscal Balance Act etc.).
Among complaints concerning personal problems, we include letters sent to us in situations of distress by
individuals who usually have certain medical problems. In such cases, we usually do not initiate a procedure,
but we try to help complainants with explanations and by referring them to the competent services.
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