Please note that the premium ceiling solution will be in place not until spring next year, as stated in the STA copy, but until the law abolishing the top-up insurance scheme is passed. A corrected copy follows.

Ljubljana, 13 April - The government adopted on Thursday a decree that paves the way for a freezing as of 1 May of the top-up health insurance premium charged by private insurers as part of a mutual insurance scheme. The EUR 35 ceiling comes as a scrapping of the current top-up system altogether was set in motion in the wake of an announced hike in the premiums.