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Article 86
 

The powers of the National Council of the Slovak Republic shall be particularly to:


a) adopt the Constitution, constitutional laws and other laws, and to supervise their implementation,
b) approve the treaties on a union of the Slovak Republic with other states and the repudiation of such treaties by a constitutional law,
c) decide on a proposal for declaration of a referendum,
d) before ratification to approve international treaties on human rights and fundamental freedoms, international political treaties, international treaties of
military nature, international treaties from which a membership of the Slovak Republic in international organizations arises, international economic treaties of general nature, international treaties for whose exercise a law is necessary, and international treaties which directly confer rights or impose duties on natural persons or legal persons, and at the same time to decide on whether they are international treaties according to Art. 7 para. 5,
e) establish Ministries and other governmental bodies,
f) debate on the Programme Proclamation of the Government of the Slovak Republic, monitor the activities of the Government, as well as debate on vote of
confidence regarding the Government or its individual member,
g) approve the state budget, supervise budgetary policy and approve the final state budgetary account,
h) debate on basic issues relating to domestic, international, economic, social and other policies,
i) elect and recall the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic and three members of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic, 
j) declare war in the event of an act of aggression by parties hostile to the Slovak Republic or in the event that obligations under international joint defence treaties must be fulfilled, and after the end of war on concluding the peace,
k) give consent for despatching the military forces outside of the territory of the Slovak Republic, if it does not concern a case stated in Art. 119, letter p),
l) approve the presence of foreign military forces on the territory of the Slovak Republic.