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The public research institution is the entire new form of legal entity in the law of Slovak republic. The new legislation has been designed to enable the transformation of the diverse kind of the research organization in Slovak Republic under the one new model institution, mainly aimed to Slovak Academy of Sciences. The article deals with the governance structure of the public research institution, its process of creation, scope of authority, its mutual interaction, as well as some author´s comments to the particular provisions of the new legislation.