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Decree No 65 / 1977 Coll., on the management of the award of scientific degrees — Decree of the Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects on Management in the Award of Scientific Aspects.

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Decree No 65 / 1977 Coll. became effective 01.12.1977.

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DECLARATION

Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects

of 8 September 1977

on the management of the award of scientific degrees

The Slovak Science Commission, in agreement with the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Federal Ministry of Technical and Investment Development and the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Socialist Republic, provides pursuant to Article 12 (3) of Act No. 53 / 1964 Coll., on the award of scientific degrees and on the State Commission for Scientific degrees, as amended by the legal measure of the Bureau of the Federal Assembly No. 106 / 1973 Coll., on the award of scientific degrees of the Constitution of Marxism-Leninism of the ÚV KSČ and ÚV KSS (hereinafter "the Act '):

ČÁST PRVNÍ

GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 1

Scientific rank of candidate for science

(1) The scientific rank of the candidate of science expresses the competence for creative scientific work demonstrated by the solution of the scientific or scientific research task by which the worker has proven to control scientific methods, has deep theoretical knowledge and has brought new knowledge (Section 5 (1) of the Act).

(2) The scientific rank of the candidate of the sciences is awarded after successful completion of the candidate examinations (§ 9) and after successful public defence of the candidate dissertation (hereinafter referred to as "candidate dissertation") before the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations (§ 3).

(3) Experts who have objectively demonstrated higher scientific qualifications by their work results, as verified in practice, can certify the scientific competence provided for in Section 5 (3) of the Act without carrying out candidate examinations by defending the social importance of their scientific work in a public scientific debate before the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations (Sections 31 to 34).

§ 2

Scientific rank of Doctor of Science

(1) The scientific rank of a doctor of science expresses particularly high scientific qualifications demonstrated by the creation of significant scientific original work relevant to the development of research in a particular field or for social practice and characterising a reserved scientific personality (Section 6 (1) of the Act).

(2) The scientific rank of the Doctor of Sciences is awarded after a successful public defence of doctoral dissertation (hereinafter referred to as "doctoral dissertation") before the Defence Commission for doctoral dissertations (§ 4).

(3) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

§ 3

Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations

(1) The Commission for Defence of Candidate Dissertations establishes, on the basis of an authorisation granted by the Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects:

(a) the scientific colleges of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,

(b) scientific advice from universities and faculties,

(c) the Scientific Council of the Institute of Marxism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia,

As a general rule, as a permanent commission for individual groups of science or science or for sections of science. These bodies shall appoint the President, the Vice-President and the other members of the Commission. They are required to inform the Slovak Science Commission about the setting up and composition of the Commission.

(2) At the same time, the Slovak Panel on Scientific Aspects when granting the authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 shall determine which scientific authorities are. authorised to set up commissions separately and which together.

(3) The Slovak Science Commission may, on a case-by-case basis, grant the right to set up, on a case-by-case basis, a Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations also to an authority other than that referred to in paragraph 1, or to set up a Commission itself.

(4) For serious reasons, the Slovak Science Commission may withdraw from the authority referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 the authorisation to set up the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations.

(5) When setting up the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations, the authority which has the authority to establish the Defence Commission shall designate an organisation (university, faculty, scientific institute or other organisation) in which the Defence Commission will operate and ensure its activities.

(6) The Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations is at least seven members. The members of the commissions shall be experts in the relevant or related scientific field, usually doctors of science, professors, scientists who have been awarded scientific qualification level I or candidates of science. In justified cases, a qualified practitioner may be appointed as a member of the commission even if he has no scientific rank or degree.

(7) The Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations must include at least two members of doctors of science, professors or scientists, who have been awarded the Scientific Qualification Grade I. The Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects may, where justified, allow an exception to this principle.

(8) The institution which has set up the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations may, if necessary, supplement it for a particular defence by a maximum of two other excellent experts.

(9) The Standing Commission on the Defence of Candidate Dissertations shall be established for a period of 5 years; However, if a new commission has not been set up for a further period of five years, it remains in the work of the Commission.

(10) In justified cases, in particular where the nature of the dissertation so requires, an individual defence-only panel may be set up in accordance with the principles set out in paragraphs 6 and 7.

§ 4

Commission for the Defence of Doctor Dissertations

(1) The Commission for the Defence of Doctoral Dissertations sets up the Slovak Science Commission and the Czech Commission for Scientific Aspects (2), as a general rule, as a permanent commission for individual groups of sciences or scientific disciplines or for sections of scientific disciplines, and appoints the chairman, Vice-President and other members of the commission. The President of the Commission shall designate an organisation (university, faculty, scientific institute or other organisation) in which the Defence Commission will operate and which will ensure its activities.

(2) The Commission for the Defence of Doctor Dissertations is at least nine members. The members of the commissions shall be experts in the relevant or related scientific field, as a general rule, doctors of science, professors or scientists to whom grade I scientific qualification has been awarded. In justified cases, a qualified practitioner may be appointed as a member of the commission even if he has no scientific rank or degree.

(3) At least three members of doctors of science, professors or scientists who have been awarded scientific qualification grade I. The Slovak Science Commission may, where justified, allow an exception to this principle.

(4) The institution which has set up a panel for the defence of doctoral dissertations may, if necessary, supplement it for a particular defence by a maximum of two other excellent experts.

(5) The Permanent Commission for the Defence of Doctoral Dissertations shall be established for a period of 5 years; However, if a new commission has not been set up for a further period of five years, it remains in the work of the Commission.

§ 5

Bodies entitled to decide on the award of scientific degrees

(1) The authorities entitled to decide on the award of scientific degrees are:

(a) the Bureau of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, when the defence of doctoral dissertation took place before the commission which operates at the Slovak Academy of Sciences,

(b) the Scientific Council of the College, when the defence of doctoral dissertation was held before the commission which operates at the university,

(c) the scientific college of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, if the defence of the candidate dissertation or the defence of the public scientific debate set up before the commission,

(d) the Scientific Council of the Institute of Marxism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia, where the defence of doctoral dissertation or candidate dissertation or the defence of a public scientific debate before a commission which operates in the Institute of Marxism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia,

(e) the Scientific Council of the College or the Scientific Council of the Faculty, if the defence of the candidate dissertation or the defence of the public scientific debate before the commission set up by them.

(2) The authorities entitled to decide on the award of the scientific grade of the candidate of the sciences are required to discuss and evaluate regularly at least once a year the results of the advocacy of candidate dissertations held before the commissions set up by those authorities. In doing so, they are required to address, in particular, the subject of dissertation and their contribution to social practice, the levels of self-referents (paragraphs 16 to 18), the quality of the opposition opinions (paragraphs 24), the level of defence, the proportional number of advocates in each field of science, as well as compliance with legislation.

(3) The authorities referred to in paragraph 1 shall report to the Slovak Science Commission on the outcome of the evaluation referred to in paragraph 2 with proposals to improve the quality of candidate dissertations and their evaluation on a regular basis by 15 January for the previous year.

(4) The results of the defence of doctoral dissertations in the Slovak Socialist Republic are discussed and evaluated at least once a year by the Slovak Science Commission.

§ 6

Forms of candidate and doctoral dissertation

(1) The theme of candidate and doctoral dissertation is to be socially serious, usually linked to wider collective work on the planned research task, based on the needs of the development of the country's national economy, science, culture, security or defence.

(2) Candidate and doctoral dissertations are subdivided into the following parts:

(a) an overview of the current state of play of the issue which is the subject of dissertation and of the expert literature which deals with the questions examined;

(b) the objective of dissertation;

(c) the processing methods chosen;

(d) the results of the dissertation, indicating new knowledge.

(e) concrete conclusions for implementation in social practice or for the further development of science.

(3) Candidate and doctoral dissertation must be submitted for defence in Slovak or Czech languages. Aliens may submit dissertation in one of the following languages, with the agreement of the Defence Commission: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish.

(4) Candidate dissertation must be printed, otherwise reproduced or typed and bound. As a candidate dissertation, a single set of published works may also be submitted (articles, or reports on research tasks that have been solved and opposed, etc.) if such a set attests to the competence of creative scientific work in accordance with Paragraph 1 (1).

(5) Doctoral dissertation must be issued by print (published), either whole or abbreviated, which contains the substance of the problem solved. However, the doctoral dissertation must be presented in full for the defence. A single set of published works may also be presented as doctoral dissertation if such a set fulfils the requirement of a particularly high scientific qualification in accordance with Paragraph 2 (1). This file may include published monographs or studies published in scientific or professional journals and assemblies which have been reproduced typographically or in other similar ways, as well as published texts of reports presented at scientific conferences, meetings, symposia and seminars in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic or abroad.

(6) The condition for the publication of doctoral dissertation is also met if the dissertation has been published in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic or abroad in one of the following languages: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish.

(7) Where the applicant submits to the defence the results of the collective scientific work, to which he is co-author, the dissertation shall indicate the parts that the applicant has processed as the author. At the same time, a statement by the co-authors confirming the authorship of the tenderer for the identified parts and assessing its share of the overall processing must be attached.

(8) A lift containing the most important new scientific knowledge of the candidate shall be attached to the set of works referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5.

(9) The dissertation shall specify the literature used and other sources on which the candidate was based or to which he reacted.

(10) The range of dissertation written on the machine should not normally exceed 150 pages for candidate dissertation and 300 pages for doctoral dissertation. Drawings, diagrams, literature lists and other annexes are not included in the number of dissertation pages. Dissertation in the field of social sciences can have a range of up to 30% larger. A single set of published works presented for defence is not limited in scope.

(11) The dissertation must also comply with language and external treatment. The individual dissertation sheets shall be fixed together and the front page shall indicate where the dissertation was drawn up and when it was completed.

(12) If the Defence Commission finds that the dissertation is not necessary under paragraphs 1 to 11, it shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 21 (1).

§ 7

Inventions, discoveries and works on creating a new machine, equipment, technological process or control system

(1) An invention or discovery may be part or the essence of a candidate's or doctoral dissertation if it results from the separate work of a candidate or a collective of which the candidate is a member, provided that an author's certificate (at the invention) or diploma (at the discovery) has been issued to him by the Office for inventions and discoveries, and that he meets the conditions for achieving the scientific rank of the candidate of sciences (§ 1 (1) or the Doctor of Sciences (§ 2 (1)).

(2) A scientific analysis of the creation of a new machine, equipment, technological process or management system may be part or the essence of a candidate or doctoral dissertation, in so far as the results of the individual work of the candidate or the collective of which the candidate is a member are of an original discovery nature and fulfil the conditions laid down for the achievement of the scientific rank of the candidate of the sciences (§ 1 (1) or of the Doctor of Sciences (§ 2 (1)).

§ 8

Textbook

(1) A university textbook may be presented for defence if it contains initial scientific results and fulfils the conditions set for the achievement of the scientific rank of the candidate of sciences (§ 1 (1)) or doctor of sciences (§ 2 (1)).

(2) A textbook for schools providing primary and secondary education may be presented for defence as part of a candidate dissertation in order to obtain the scientific rank of a candidate of pedagogical sciences in the scientific field of teaching theory of the subject.

(3) Teaching texts, teaching aids, script, dictionaries and other teaching aids cannot be presented for defence.

ČÁST DRUHÁ

CANDIDATE TESTS OF REACTORS IN SEPARATE SCIENTIFIC PREPARATION

§ 9

Conduct of candidate examinations

(1) Prescribed examinations carried out successfully by the applicant during the course of scientific education are of the nature of the candidate examination.4)

(2) Candidates in a separate scientific preparation which has not been included in scientific education may authorise the conduct of candidate trials by the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations.

(3) Candidate examinations of tenderers in separate scientific preparation consist of:

(a) expert examination;

b) Marxism-leninism test,

(c) Russian Language Test;

(d) another world language test, one of the following: English, French, German, Spanish.

(4) The Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations may also authorise candidates' examinations to be carried out by university students in the framework of differentiated studies. However, prior approval of the Dean of the Faculty or of the rector of a university which is not divided into faculties shall be required for the performance of the professional examination and examination of marxism.

(5) The provisions of the rules on examination in scientific education apply mutatis mutandis to the content of the candidate examinations, the manner in which they are to be held and the duration of the examination, the place of the examination, the composition of the examination boards for each candidate examination, the decision of the examination committees, the results of the candidate trials and their repetition. 5) In doing so, the tasks of the training centre (its head) shall be performed by the Chairman of the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations.

(6) Where a candidate has already passed a candidate examination or one of them in the same field of science in the course of scientific education according to the relevant regulations or in the framework of a differentiated study at a university, he shall not take the examination again or, if necessary, again unless his period of validity has expired (§ 14).

Application for authorisation of candidate examinations

§ 10

(1) The application for the authorisation of candidate examinations shall be submitted by the candidate in his / her separate scientific preparation either directly or through an organisation to which he / she is in employment, organisation (university, faculty, scientific institute), in which the committee responsible for defending candidate dissertations is set up; the organisation shall forward the request to the Commission.

(2) If the competent commission is not established or if it is obvious that the planned dissertation is of a borderline interdisciplinary nature or is of a scientific field not included in the list of the Slovak Panel on Scientific Aspects, the candidate shall, in separate scientific preparation, submit a request for the authorisation of candidate examinations to the authority authorised to set up a panel for the defence of candidate dissertations in a related scientific field.

§ 11

(1) The application for authorisation of candidate examinations shall be accompanied by the following documents in separate scientific preparation:

(a) a certificate of citizenship or a solemn declaration that he is a Czechoslovak national citizen; foreigners shall submit a certificate of foreign nationality,

(b) evidence of completed higher education (diploma); students of higher education in a differentiated study shall submit the document referred to in Article 9 (4),

(c) a certificate of employment and a functional classification;

(d) a brief CV;

(e) a list of published and unpublished scientific works, inventions and discoveries, as well as, where appropriate, opinions on them from relevant scientific institutions;

(f) a thematic outline of the proposed candidate dissertation to the extent sufficient to define the professional examination.

(2) Where, in separate scientific preparation, the applicant submits an application to an organisation to which he is employed, he does not attach the documents he has previously submitted to that organisation.

§ 12

(1) Where an application for authorisation of candidate examinations is submitted by a candidate in separate scientific preparation through an organisation to which he is employed, the leading organisation shall add to it an evaluation of the candidate.

(2) If the application for authorisation of candidate examinations has not been supported by the evaluation of the candidate referred to in paragraph 1, the President of the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations shall request it from an organisation to which the candidate is self-employed in scientific preparation.

§ 13

Authorisation of candidate examinations

(1) The applicant's application in separate scientific preparation for the authorisation of candidate examinations shall be decided by the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations.

(2) If the candidate dissertation is in the scientific field for which the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations is set up, the Commission will decide on the request, and if the conditions laid down in § 7 of the Act and the formalities provided for in § 11 and 12 are met, it will comply with the request. The President of the Commission, after consulting the candidate, shall determine further details concerning the candidate examinations.

(3) If there is no request for formalities pursuant to Sections 11 and 12, the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations shall proceed in accordance with Section 21 (1).

(4) If the conditions are not met, the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations shall reject the request.

(5) If the proposed candidate dissertation does not fall within the substantive competence of the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations, the President of the Commission shall, after consultation with the candidate, forward the request to the organisation where the relevant committee for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations is set up or the body to which it is responsible to set up a Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations in the scientific field in which the dissertation significantly interferes.

(6) Where the planned dissertation is of a frontier interbranch nature (§ 20) or where a request has been made pursuant to § 10 (2), the institution referred to in paragraph 5 shall decide on the authorisation of the candidate trials and on the further measures to be taken by the body referred to in paragraph 5 when it is established by the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations for all scientific disciplines in which the dissertation interferes; otherwise the request shall be forwarded with its opinion to the Slovak Scientific Commission.

(7) Where an application for authorisation of candidate examinations pursuant to paragraphs 5 and 6 has been submitted at the same time as an application for authorisation of the defence, the application shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 19 or 20.

§ 14

Exemption from candidate trials and duration of the tests

(1) The authority which is entitled to set up a Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations (§ 5 (1)) may exempt:

(a) since the professional examination of the candidate in the separate scientific preparation, in particular the practitioner, who has already had to process the candidate dissertation on the current subject, proving his professional creative activity that he has the knowledge required in the professional examination;

(b) from the examination of the applicant's languages in a separate scientific preparation, which shows that he has passed the national examination of the language in question, or shows that the language is his mother tongue, or that he has attended a secondary or university school at which the language was taught. The examination of the language concerned shall not be carried out by the tenderer for whom the language concerned is the subject of a professional examination.

(2) It is not possible to exempt candidates from the Marxism-Leninism test in separate scientific preparation.

(3) The application for exemption from the candidate examinations referred to in paragraph 1 and the application for authorisation to defend the candidate dissertation may be combined by the candidate in a separate scientific preparation into a single submission to be discussed at the same time.

(4) The expert test and the Marxism-Leninism test are valid for 6 years. The period of validity shall be calculated from the completion of the test until the date of application for authorisation of the defence of the candidate dissertation. The period of validity of these tests cannot be extended. The duration of the language examination is not limited.

(5) In the case of foreigners, special arrangements apply with regard to the test of marxism-leninism and the examination of languages.

ČÁST TŘETÍ

OBSERVATIONS OF CANDIDATE AND DOCTOR DISERTATIONS

§ 15

Request for authorisation of the defence

(1) An application for authorisation to defend a candidate or doctoral dissertation shall be submitted by the tenderer either directly or through an organisation to which he is in employment:

(a) the organisation (university, faculty, scientific institute) in which the committee of defence is responsible; This organisation shall forward a request for consideration to the competent committee for defence of candidate dissertations or to the competent committee for defence of doctoral dissertations,

(b) the authority authorised to set up the Defence Commission (§ 3 (1) and § 4 (1)) if a candidate or doctoral dissertation of a frontier interbranch nature has been submitted (§ 20).

(2) The applicant shall attach the following documents to the application for authorisation of the defence:

(a) the documents referred to in Article 11 (1) (a) to (e); a candidate for the scientific rank of a candidate of science who has applied at the same point for the authorisation of candidate examinations shall submit those documents only if the evidence has been submitted against the previous condition for a change in the facts shown,

(b) confirmation of the end of scientific education6) and of the results of examinations in scientific education or of the performance of candidate examinations in separate scientific preparation or, where appropriate, of the exemption from candidate examinations. The application for the authorisation of the defence of doctoral dissertation shall be accompanied by a diploma of the candidate of the sciences or proof that he is a professor or a scientific worker to whom grade I has been awarded,

(c) an autoreport (Sections 16 to 18);

(d) dissertation, in four copies and in five copies; technical elaborates, models, etc., shall be affixed only in one copy,

(e) a statement as to whether the dissertation was created in the work of the planned task and on which, how the knowledge contained therein should be used, whether it has been published or a publication of the knowledge contained therein is being prepared and where,

(f) the report of the organisation on dissertation, if it was drawn up in the department, in the scientific institute, in the laboratory, etc., as well as the opinion of the trainer, if the candidate was included in the scientific education;

(g) if it comes to defending doctoral dissertation, the other most important published and unpublished scientific work related to the topic of advocated dissertation,

(h) if the applicant submits a new dissertation in the same field of science, the communication issued by the Panel on the defence of the original dissertation a negative decision (§ 30 (9)), the title of the original dissertation and the justification for differences between the two dissertations.

(3) The opinion referred to in point (f) of paragraph 2 shall assess the current nature of the subject under consideration, its link to the organisation's scientific and technical development plan, the participation of the candidate in the dissertation, the justification of scientific thesis, conclusions and proposals, the possibility of the organisation to use the results in social practice and its opinion on the applicant's application for defence authorisation. If the scientific results mentioned in the dissertation have been obtained by co-authors, the scientific benefit of the tenderer shall be indicated.

(4) The application for authorisation of the defence shall be accompanied by an evaluation of the candidate by the head of the organisation to which the candidate is in employment. Paragraph 12 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Autoreport and its details

§ 16

(1) The autopherate of the candidate dissertation or the autopheratal of the doctoral dissertation (hereinafter referred to as the "autopherat") is a brief expression of the basic ideas, methods and conclusions of the candidate or doctoral dissertation.

(2) The purpose of the autoreport is:

(a) to enable a wider range of scientific and professional staff of relevant scientific disciplines to be systematically acquainted with the results of scientific activity in candidate and doctoral dissertations;

(b) improve the professional assessment of dissertations by allowing every organisation and every researcher in research and in practice who is interested in the subject under examination to submit questions and comments either in writing to the chair of the defence committee or orally in defence of the dissertation and the candidate is obliged to give an opinion on them;

(c) ensure the prompt use of scientific results in practice.

§ 17

(1) The autoreport is in format A5; the autoreport of the candidate dissertation is to be within 20 pages written on the machine; the initial doctoral dissertation is to have a range of 40 pages written on the machine. The original paper shall be printed or reproduced in another equivalent way replacing the printing. The first and the other sides of the autoreport should be adapted in accordance with the model annexed to the Order (Annex I).

(2) The Authority is to give a concise and concise answer to the questions on the basis of the breakdown referred to in Section 6 (2).

(3) Autoreport must be submitted in Slovak or Czech languages.

(4) The parts of the autoreport are a list of the most important works published by the applicant, which relate to the subject under examination, as well as a report of these works indicating where and when the reviews were published, the list of the literature used and the summary in the Russian language or other world language (§ 6 (6)) in the range of 1-2 pages written on the machine.

(5) If the Defence Commission finds that the Authority does not comply with the requirements laid down in paragraphs 1 to 4, it shall proceed in accordance with Paragraph 21 (1).

§ 18

(1) The Authority shall be reproduced in the necessary number of copies in order to be sent no later than six weeks before the defence date to the authorities, organisations and workers who may be interested in the subject under examination. Their list by group of sciences is established by the scientific colleges of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marxism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia, the rectors of universities and the Dean of the Faculty.

(2) The following shall be mandatory:

(a) the organisation in which the competent defence committee operates;

(b) the Slovak Science Commission,

(c) opponents (§ 23),

(d) members of the relevant defence commission;

e) University library in Bratislava.

(3) The printing or other copies of the autoreport shall be ensured by the applicant who has been classified in the scientific education, training and, where appropriate, the maternity centre; the other candidates of the organisation to which the candidate is in employment.

(4) The distribution of autoreports shall be ensured by the Chairman of the Defence Commission of the organisation in which the commission operates.

Decision on the request for the defence's authorisation

§ 19

(1) Where a candidate or doctoral dissertation falls within the substantive competence of the Defence Commission, the Commission shall decide on the request for authorisation of the defence.

(2) If dissertation is not relevant to the substantive competence of the Defence Commission, that Commission shall proceed with the processing of the application in the manner set out in Section 13 (5).

§ 20

(1) A request for authorisation to defend a candidate or doctoral dissertation of a frontier interbranch character shall be decided by the Defence Commission of the scientific field in which the results of the advocated dissertation are to constitute a major contribution, in agreement with the Commission or the Defence Commissions in whose scientific field the dissertation is involved. It must be clear from the agreement:

(a) which defence commission will discuss the request for the authorisation of the defence and which defence committee will be held before, and the proposal to add to that commission the members of other defence committees whose scientific fields are affected by dissertation;

(b) in which group of sciences and from which field of science the scientific rank shall be awarded; taking into account the character of the university education of the candidate, the wider scientific basis in which the candidate was included in the scientific education and in which he passed the vocational examination, the subject of dissertation, etc. Scientific rank in the group of medical sciences or veterinary sciences may only be awarded to applicants who have completed university studies in medical sciences or in veterinary sciences.

(c) the provision of opponents for candidate dissertation or the proposal for the provision of opponents for doctoral dissertation from the scientific fields in which dissertation interferes.

(2) If the agreement referred to in paragraph 1 is not reached, the Defence Commission shall refer the request to the authority entitled to set up the Defence Commission (Sections 3 (1) and 4 (1)) for the scientific fields in which the dissertation interferes. The Commission shall submit its observations on the questions referred to in paragraph 1 (a) to (c), as well as the opinions and proposals of the other defence commissions in question.

(3) If the request cannot be decided on in accordance with the principles set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, the Slovak Science Commission shall decide on it. The applicant's application shall be accompanied by an opinion from the authority authorised to set up the Defence Commission on the issues referred to in paragraph 1 (a) to (c).

§ 21

Suspension and termination of the defence authorisation procedure

(1) If the Defence Commission finds that the dissertation or the autoreport do not comply with the requirements laid down in Sections 6 to 8, Sections 11, 12 and 17, or if it finds that the request for authorisation of the defence does not have the requirements laid down in Section 15, it shall suspend the procedure and invite the applicant to remedy the deficiencies within the prescribed period. The Commission shall continue the proceedings as soon as the obstacles for which the proceedings have been suspended have ceased.

(2) The applicant may withdraw the candidate or doctoral dissertation submitted and the request for its defence during the course of the proceedings until the opening of the Commission's private meeting (Paragraph 30 (1)). In that case, the Defence Commission shall terminate the proceedings.

(3) If the Defence Commission finds that the dissertation has fundamental shortcomings of a professional nature, it shall advise the applicant to withdraw the dissertation. If the dissertation has been withdrawn, the committee will stop the proceedings. If the applicant does not agree with the recommendation of the Commission, the procedure shall continue.

§ 22

Amendment of the Defence Commission following the initiation of the defence authorisation procedure

Where an action for the authorisation of the defence has been initiated with the relevant Commission for the Defence or with the Commission designated pursuant to Paragraph 20, the request for authorisation of the defence may be referred to the other Commission for consideration, in exceptional and justified cases only, and provided that that amendment is also agreed by the commission to be referred to the dissertation, on a proposal from the applicant. 7)

Opponents and their opinions

§ 23

(1) The President of the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations will appoint opponents after consultation with the members of the Commission. Opponents for defence of doctoral dissertations are approved by the Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects on the proposal of the relevant panel for defence of doctoral dissertations.

(2) Candidate dissertation is assessed by at least three opponents who are experts in the relevant scientific field. At least one of them must be a doctor of science, a professor or a scientific worker to whom grade I has been awarded scientific qualification. Other opponents may be appointed candidates of science, professor or qualified practitioners, even if they do not have a scientific rank or a scientific degree.

(3) Doctoral dissertation is assessed by at least three opponents who are experts in the relevant scientific field. At least two of them must be doctors of science, professors or scientists who have been awarded scientific qualification level I. Other opponents may be appointed candidates of science, professor or qualified practitioners, even if they do not have a scientific rank or a scientific degree. One of the opponents of the doctoral dissertation is to be appointed from among the members of the relevant defence committee.

(4) Paragraph 20 also applies to the provisions of opponents in defence of dissertations of a frontier interbranch nature.

(5) It is not possible to appoint the trainer of the candidate or the staff involved in the processing of dissertation as co-authors. Nor can it be established as an opponent who is directly superior or directly subordinate to the candidate. It is not acceptable for all opponents to be workers of the same organisation.

§ 24

(1) The opponent shall return the written opinion and dissertation to the President of the Defence Commission within one month of the candidate's dissertation and within two months of the doctoral dissertation, or notify the Chairman of the Defence Commission within 15 days of the date of receipt of the report on the provision for the opponent that the opinion cannot be drawn up. If the opinion has not been submitted within that time limit, even after a further reasonable period of time has elapsed, or if the opponent has announced that he is unable to draw up the opinion, the Commission for the Defence of Candidate Dissertations of the New Opponent or the Commission for the Defence of Doctoral Dissertations shall propose the Slovak Commission for the Scientific Aspects of Approval of the New Opponent.

Citation	Decree No 65 / 1977 Coll., on the management of the award of scientific degrees
Regulation Type	-
Author	-
Collection	Code of Laws

Date of Promulgation	31.10.1977
Effective from	01.12.1977
Effective until	-
Status	Valid

Decree No 65 / 1977 Coll.

Decree of the Slovak Commission for Scientific Aspects on Management in the Award of Scientific Aspects

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