All democratic countries place a special emphasis on the control of intelligence services in order to prevent their misuse. The control of the intelligence services is usually carried out by the legislative, executive and judicial power. The above mentioned forms of external control are applied to the Slovak Information Service as well. Apart from the external forms of control there are also internal control mechanisms within the Service itself.

The external controls

The external control of the Slovak Information Service takes place on three levels: - on the level of the Slovak Parliament by the work of a special control committee (Paragraph 5 of the Act) which consists of both coalition and opposition MPs. At least once a year the Director of the SIS submits to the Slovak Parliament a report on fulfilling the objectives defined by the law. The Parliament also plays a key role in control and regulation by approving the budget of the Service. - on the level of the Slovak government, where it is a combination of the management and guarantee system. The financial control also takes place on this level. - on the level of courts and prosecution in the case of the Service's violation of law, or in the case of the use of technical-intelligence techniques which is conditional on the approval by a judge.

The internal controls

The internal oversight activity in the Slovak Information Service is carried out by means of individual stages of management, as well as by a special control body authorized to oversee all the areas of activities of the Service. The structure and organization of the internal control system including its individual parts, authorizations, coordination of activities, the relations between individual parts, the performance of the oversight activity, rights and duties of those who control and those who are being controlled are set forth in special internal regulations of the Slovak Information Service.