refused. 49 The law specifically prohibited any effects of its measures on the right to acquire Slovenian citizenship. In 2013, as a measure to implement the ECtHR judgement in the case of Kurić and Others v. Slovenia, a law on compensations was adopted.50 The compensations awarded were low and the law completely excluded the erased who were still left without a permanent status in Slovenia or its citizenship. Slovenia never adopted any measures to facilitate the acquisition of Slovenian citizenship by the erased, denying any responsibility towards the erased that remained stateless.51 Recommendations 24. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Slovenia: I. Amend the law to bring the definition of a stateless person in national law in line with the definition provided in the 1954 Convention definition. II. Take concrete steps to improve the recording of statelessness by harmonising and defining statistical categories used by different agencies; include the recording and counting of stateless individuals in the census and consider conducting a comprehensive national mapping study to provide a reliable estimate of the statelessness population in Slovenia. III. Establish a dedicated statelessness determination procedure in law and in line with UNHCR Guidance and good practice and fulfil its obligations to stateless persons under the 1954 Convention, including to grant them a residence permit, right to work, study and facilitated naturalisation; treat stateless children without legal residence the same as those with residence rights in line with the best interests of the child; and ensure that public officials and registration officials are trained to accurately identify statelessness and consider it as a relevant circumstance. IV. Take steps to protect stateless persons from arbitrary detention by introducing a statelessness determination procedure and protection status, as well as embedding consideration of statelessness as a juridically relevant fact in all decisions to detain; introduce periodic judicial review in law; and improve access to effective remedies for detainees. 49 Information provided by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, 31 August 2015. Act Regulating the Compensation for Damage Sustained as a Result of Erasure from the Register of Permanent Residents, 21 November 2013. 51 It is important to note that the erasure itself did not cause statelessness. The erasure was a deprivation of permanent residence status in Slovenia and the erased people in most cases had the nationality of another successor state of the former Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, a smaller group within this population was left stateless due to the inconsistent nationality policies within the former Yugoslavia and of the successor states. The erasure significantly then deteriorated the situation of these stateless individuals as they also lost their tie to the country in which they have lived (some of them for decades). 50 8