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On the basis of the first Local Self-Government Act (1993) and the Establishment of Municipalities and Municipal Boundaries Act (1994), 147 municipalities were created in 1994, till 2002 their number increased to 193. Most of the newly-founded municipalities were small, including municipalities that did not meet the conditions stipulated by law. Consequently, there have been many discussions on the efficiency of such municipalities and the reasonableness of any further division of Slovenia. In 2005, 95 municipalities had less than 5 000 inhabitants, which is the legally prescribed threshold for the establishment of a municipality. Therefore, all these municipalities were surveyed and an assessment of their impact on the development of rural areas in Slovenia was given. Na podlagi prvega Zakona o lokalni samoupravi (1993) in Zakona o ustanovitvi občin in njihovih območij (1994) se je v letu 1994 oblikovalo 147 občin, do leta 2002 pa se je njihovo število povečalo na 193. Na novo so nastajale predvsem majhne občine, tudi takšne, ki niso izpolnjevale v zakonu določenih pogojev. Zato so potekale in še vedno potekajo številne razprave o učinkovitosti takšnih občin in smiselnosti nadaljnje delitve Slovenije. V letu 2005 je imelo 95 občin manj kot 5 000 prebivalcev, kar je zakonsko določena meja za ustanovitev občine. Vse majhne občine smo anketirali in podali oceno o njihovem vplivu na razvoj podeželja.

The article deals with problems of intermunicipal cooperation, especially in the field of physical planning and land management, since the majority of urbanised areas and functional connections between new communes exceed the administrative boundaries of particular territorial units. Possibilities of cooperation are shown, aspects which should be respected when deciding upon cooperation, criteria for including peripheral communes into the municipal region and goals of improving intermunicipial cooperation. In the conclusion, the intermunicipial union is discussed, especially its tasks, criteria for shaping the union and the timing of accession. V prispevku je obravnavana problematika medobčinskega sodelovanja, predvsem na področju urejanja prostora, ker obsežna urbanizirana področja in funkcijske povezave sedanjih občin presegajo administrativne meje posameznih teritorialnih enot. Prikazane so možnosti sodelovanja, vidiki, ki jih je potrebno upoštevati, kadar se odločamo za obliko medsebojnega povezovanja, merila za vključevanje okoliških občin v mestno regijo in cilji izboljšanja medobčinskega sodelovanja. Prispevek zaključuje razmišljanja o medobčinski zvezi, in sicer bistvenih nalogah zveze, kriterijih za oblikovanje zveze in terminih pristopanja v zvezo.