The winter refugee centre in the eastern town of Slavonski Brod catered for 12 refugees on Tuesday evening, according to the ministry,
Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar said on Tuesday evening that he had not got acquainted with measures which Austria was about to take this week to ration the refugee intake, however, he was following the developments and according to him, Slovenia is set to apply the corresponding measures along its border with Croatia.
"If Austria adopts measures to ration the refugee influx, Slovenia will have to react accordingly, and we will then inform Croatia about the reduction of the influx of migrants," Cerar told the Slovenian television on Tuesday evening,
Cerar expects Austria to introduce new measures later this week and to notify Slovenia in a timely fashion.
He said he was in favour of tightening the control over the European Union's external borders and over the Greece-Macedonia border.