The Government Communication Office is an independent
professional service of the Slovene government with the following
responsibilities:
ensuring that the work of the government is public and informing
the domestic public about the work of the Prime Minister and
ministries;
provides know-how and technical support for organising and conducting ministerial communications campaigns relating to the most important programme projects of the Government;
informing the public abroad about the work of the Slovene
Government, of the Prime Minister, of ministries and of the President
of the Republic of Slovenia;
providing professional support to the government spokesperson and
public relations services within ministries and government offices;
planning, carrying out and co-ordinating general promotional
activities by the state;
performs activities related to direct forms of communication of the government with citizens (web communication, call centres).
Subject to agreement, the Office performs other tasks for other
national bodies.
The Office works independently and together with the government
spokesperson, with ministries and government offices and with
professional and academic institutions and experts in the relevant
areas.
The Office was between 1997 to 2004 responsible also for two long term and complex communication programmes on accession of Slovenia to European Union and NATO:
In the period from June 2005 until June 2007 the Government Communication Office conducted the communication campaign for the purpose of the introduction of the euro in Slovenia.