Travel restrictions in brief: Slovenia 🇸🇮

NOTE: Last update of this article occurred on December 16th.

Can I travel to Slovenia?

Yes, but authorities have put in place some restrictions based on a level-of-risk categorization of countries: Red, Green, and Orange (see below).

1. Red list

Countries with an unstable epidemiological situation or administrative divisions of countries are included on the red list.

People entering the Republic of Slovenia, who are a resident of a country on the red list or who arrive from that country, shall be due to the potential infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus required to stay in quarantine for a period of ten days.

The quarantine shall not be ordered if a person, when crossing the border, submits a medical certificate proving that they have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), which is not older than 48 hours and was performed in a EU member state, in a member of the Schengen Area, i.e. with an organisation or individual recognised by the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food as suitable and credible and have been published on the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food website. Tests made by the mentioned institutions in third countries will therefore be recognised.

EU member states or members of the Schengen Area (valid as of 12 December 2020)

• 🇦🇩 Andorra
• 🇦🇹 Austria
• 🇧🇪 Belgium 
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
• 🇭🇷 Croatia
• 🇨🇾 Cyprus
• 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
• 🇩🇰 Denmark (only individual administrative units): all administrative units except the Faroe Islands and Greenland
• 🇪🇪 Estonia
• 🇫🇮 Finland (only individual administrative units): Uusimaa
• 🇫🇷 France: all administrative units of mainland France, French overseas department French Guiana, French overseas department Guadelupe, French overseas department Saint Martin, French overseas department La Réunion, French overseas department Martinique 
• 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇬🇷 Greece (only individual administrative units): Western Macedonia, Attica, Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Epirus, Thessaly, North Aegean Islands, Central Greece
• 🇭🇺 Hungary
• 🇮🇹 Italy
• 🇱🇻 Latvia
• 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
• 🇱🇹 Lithuania
• 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
• 🇲🇹 Malta
• 🇲🇨 Monaco
• 🇳🇱 The Netherlands
• 🇳🇴 Norway (only individual administrative units): Oslo, Vestland, Viken
• 🇵🇹 Portugal (only individual administrative units): all administrative units, except the Madeira autonomous region 
• 🇵🇱 Poland
• 🇷🇴 Romania
• 🇸🇲 San Marino
• 🇸🇰 Slovakia
• 🇪🇸 Spain: all adminstrative units, except the administrative unit of the Canary Islands (Islas Canarias)
• 🇸🇪 Sweden
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland
• 🇻🇦 Vatican City
• 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 Third countries:

• 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
• 🇦🇱 Albania
• 🇩🇿 Algeria
• 🇦🇴 Angola
• 🇦🇷 Argentina
• 🇦🇲 Armenia
• 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
• 🇧🇸 Bahamas
• 🇧🇭 Bahrain
• 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
• 🇧🇿 Belize
• 🇧🇾 Belarus
• 🇧🇯 Benin
• 🇧🇴 Bolivia
• 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 🇧🇼 Botswana
• 🇧🇷 Brazil
• 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
• 🇧🇮 Burundi
• 🇧🇹 Bhutan
• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇹🇩 Chad
• 🇨🇱 Chile
• 🇲🇪 Montenegro
• 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of Congo
• 🇩🇴 The Dominican Republic
• 🇪🇬 Egypt
• 🇪🇨 Ecuador
• 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
• 🇪🇷 Eritrea
• 🇸🇿 Eswatini
• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
• 🇵🇭 The Philippines
• 🇬🇦 Gabon
• 🇬🇲 Gambia
• 🇬🇭 Ghana
• 🇬🇪 Georgia
• 🇬🇾 Guiana
• 🇬🇹 Guatemala
• 🇬🇶 Guinea
• 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
• 🇭🇹 Haiti
• 🇭🇳 Honduras
• 🇮🇳 India
• 🇮🇩 Indonesia
• 🇮🇶 Iraq
• 🇮🇷 Iran
• 🇮🇱 Israel
• 🇯🇲 Jamaica
• 🇾🇪 Yemen
• 🇯🇴 Jordan
• 🇿🇦 South Africa
• 🇨🇲 Cameron
• 🇶🇦 Qatar
• 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
• 🇰🇪 Kenya
• 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz Republic
• 🇨🇴 Columbia
• 🇰🇲 Comoros
• 🇽🇰 Kosovo
• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
• 🇰🇼 Kuwait
• 🇱🇸 Lesotho
• 🇱🇧 Lebanon
• 🇱🇷 Liberia
• 🇱🇾 Libya
• 🇲🇬 Madagascar
• 🇲🇼 Malawi
• 🇲🇻 Maldives
• 🇲🇱 Mali
• 🇲🇦 Morocco
• 🇲🇷 Mauritania
• 🇲🇽 Mexico
• 🇲🇩 Moldova
• 🇲🇳 Mongolia
• 🇲🇿 Mozambique
• 🇳🇵 Nepal
• 🇳🇪 Niger
• 🇳🇬 Nigeria
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
• 🇴🇲 Oman
• 🇵🇰 Pakistan
• 🇵🇦 Panama
• 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
• 🇵🇾 Paraguay
• 🇵🇪 Peru
• 🇨🇩 Republic of Congo
• 🇷🇺 Russia
• 🇸🇻 El Salvador
• 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
• 🇸🇳 Senegal
• 🇰🇵 North Korea
• 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
• 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
• 🇸🇾 Syria
• 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire
• 🇸🇴 Somalia
• 🇷🇸 Serbia
• 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
• 🇸🇷 Suriname
• 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
• 🇹🇿 Tanzania
• 🇹🇬 Togo
• 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
• 🇹🇳 Tunisia
• 🇹🇷 Turkey
• 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine
• 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
• 🇻🇪 Venezuela
• 🇹🇱 East Timor
• 🇿🇲 Zambia
• 🇺🇸 United States of America
• 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
• 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
• 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

2. Green list

Epidemiologically safe countries or administrative units of countries are included in the green list (applicable as of 12 December 2020).

People with permanent or temporary residence in a country that has been added to the green list, and arriving from such countries, can enter Slovenia without restrictions or quarantine.

EU/Schengen States

• 🇩🇰 Denmark (only individual administrative units): the Faroe Islands and Greenland
• 🇫🇮 Finland (only individual administrative units): Aland
• 🇳🇴 Norway (only individual administrative units):Trøndelag

Third countries:

• 🇦🇺 Australia
• 🇯🇵 Japan
• 🇰🇷 South Korea
• 🇳🇿 New Zealand
• 🇷🇼 Rwanda
• 🇸🇬 Singapore
• 🇹🇭 Thailand
• 🇺🇾 Uruguay

3. Orange list

If a country is not on the list of epidemiologically safe (green list) or on the list of countries with an unstable epidemiological situation (red list), it shall be considered that it has been included on the orange list (all world countries that have not been included either on the red or on the green list).

Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican are treated the same as the member states of the Schengen Area. If these countries are put on the orange list, they will be not treated as third countries. This means that citizens of these countries will be able to exercise their prerogative to enter Slovenia without quarantine and without submitting a negative test.

Persons entering Slovenia from a country that is placed on the orange list can enter without restrictions and without quarantine.

The updated list of green, orange and red countries can be found here.

4. Exceptions without quarantine and negative test

The exceptions under which quarantine will not be ordered and under which a person is not required to submit a negative test have been determined. Entry from any red-listed country shall be allowed to:

1. cross-border daily migrant workers who are employed in one of the EU member states or any other member of the Schengen Area, who has a certificate or a written statement that can prove the reason for crossing the border as a daily migrant worker and who will be returning within 14 hours after crossing the border;
2. people posted for executing tasks in the international transport sector* or from it;
3. people who transport goods or people to and from the Republic of Slovenia for economic purposes and freight or passenger transport in transit* and leaves Slovenia within 12 hours after crossing the border;
4. people in transit* through the Republic of Slovenia leaving it within 12 hours of entry;
5. diplomatic passport holder;
6. member of a foreign official delegation* arriving to the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of a certificate or official invitation by the competent state authority, or a member of the official delegation of the Republic of Slovenia returning from abroad;
7. representatives of foreign security authorities (the police or justice) who carry out the operational task and leave the Republic of Slovenia as quickly as possible after the completion of the task;
8. members of the Slovenian Armed Forces, the Police or employees of a state authority who are returning from work postings abroad, and state authority employee on business travel abroad (who has to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) upon arrival to Slovenia;
9. people, crossing the border (on a daily basis or occasionally) due to the integration in education or scientific research in the Republic of Slovenia or abroad, certified with proper evidence, or their parents and other people transporting that person and returning across the border within 24 hours after the crossing of the border;
10. people crossing the border due to urgent business reasons which can be proved with a suitable certificate and who will return across the border as soon as possible, but not more than 12 hours after crossing the border;
11. anyone who was transported to the Republic of Slovenia in an emergency or medical vehicle, and medical staff present in the vehicle;
12. people with evidence on planned emergency medical examination or surgery* in a EU member state or a member of the Schengen Area and who returns back across the border after the completed medical examination or surgery or immediately when their medical condition enables them to return (including an assistant when this is urgently needed due to the person’s medical condition);
13. persons who own or lease land in the border area or on both sides of the state border and cross the state border for the purpose of carrying out agricultural and forestry works;
14. people crossing the border due to family reasons in order to maintain contact with their close family members living in another EU member state or any other member of the Schengen Area, and are returning 72 hours after crossing the border;
15. a person who has not reached the age of 14 and is crossing the border together with a close family member who has submitted a negative test;
16. citizens of the Republic of Slovenia or foreigners with residence in the Republic of Slovenia who are crossing the border with the neighbouring country in order to access stores or services that are closer to their residence than such stores and services in the municipality of their residence or are not available in the municipality of their residence, and are returning within two hours of crossing the border. The same is permitted to citizens of the neighbouring country or foreigners with residence in the neighbouring country if stores or services in the border municipality of the Republic of Slovenia are closer to their residence.

*An exception for performing duties in the international transport sector applies to drivers of cargo vehicles. Drivers without a cargo vehicle who do not have a registered temporary or permanent residence in Slovenia, may claim an exception that applies to drivers in international transport (point 2 of paragraph one of Article 10 of the Ordinance). Drivers without a cargo vehicle who have a registered temporary or permanent residence in Slovenia cannot claim this exception.

* Transit means that a person must leave Slovenia within twelve hours and their travel must be accomplished without unnecessary and redundant stopping and leaving the transit route. Passengers can make necessary stops in transit, i.e. for refuelling and resting for physiological needs, but they cannot stay overnight. A person in transit must carry a valid travel document (also a visa or residential permit, when required) and a document proving the purpose and goal of transit (as of 14 July, only non-EU residents must submit a document proving the purpose and goal of transit; EU residents can submit a valid travel document). Entry to Slovenia shall not permitted to anyone for whom it is envisaged that they will be unable to exit the territory of Slovenia due to the measures in force in neighbouring countries.

* Members of a foreign official delegation arriving in the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of a certificate or official invitation by the competent state authority also include world-class athletes representing the country (national team) and attending competitions as per indent two of paragraph one of Article 3 of the Ordinance on Temporary Restrictions on Sports Activities, and members of the national team’s accompanying personnel, sports delegates or sports referees at these competitions.

* Urgent medical examinations or procedures include examinations or procedures which, if failed to be carried out, would result happened deterioration of medical condition (e.g. chemotherapies, special diagnostic procedures, tertiary health care services). Urgent medical examinations or procedures do not include services that can be provided in the country of origin or routine specialist examinations (first examinations in oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology etc.), and preventive examinations.

People who received the laissez-passer travel document from international organisations and people with an invitation or certificate issued by the state authority of the Republic of Slovenia, who also prove their official purpose of their visit to Slovenia, shall be considered the same as diplomatic passport holders.