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NATURE PROTECTION
Ilona Jančářová
NATURE PROTECTION
• Act No. 114/1992 Coll. on the Nature and
Landscape Protection (the Nature Protection
Act), as amended
• Act N. 100/2004 Coll., on the Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
• Act N. 115/2000 Coll., on the Compensation of
the Damage Caused by Certain Especially
Protected Animals
• Act No. 449/2001 Coll., on the Game-keeping,
• Act No. 99/2004 Coll., on the Fishery, both as
amended
NATURE PROTECTION ACT
a) General protection
b) Special protection
- teritorial (site related)
- generic (species related)
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General protection
• Territorial systems of ecological stability
(TSES)
• Significant landscape components (SLC)
• Landscape character
• Wild animals and plants including european
birds
• Trees and shrubs
• Caves
• Protection of paleontological findings
Special protection of species
• Animals and plants
• Monumental trees
• Minerals
Special territorial protection
Especially protected areas:
– national parks
– protected landscape areas
– national natural reserves
– natural reserves
– national natural monuments
– natural monuments.
NATURA 2000:
• special bird protection areas (Directive 79/409/EEC on the
conservation of wild birds) (SPAs)
• sites of Community interest (Directive 92/43/EEC on the
conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna flora)
special areas of conservation (SACs)
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Tools of legal regulation
Administrative tools:
– permits
– binding opinions
– decision to stop or limit activity
– decision to take measures
– establishment of protected areas
– exemptions.
Tools of legal regulation
• Economic tools
– levies for felling trees
– state support to take measures for
enhancing the environment
– fees to enter national parks
– tax exemption in the area of national parks
– financial compensations.
Tools of legal regulation
• Bans and duties of persons.
• Registration (significant landscape components)
• Administrative agreements.
• Monitoring and record-keeping.
• Rules for entering the landscape.
• Biological assessment and assessment of impacts of
strategic documents and activities in special bird
protection areas and in sites of Community interest.
• Management plans for especially protected areas.
• Protective zones.
• Public participation.
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Tools of legal regulation
Sanctions:
– the duty to restore/corrective measures
– duty to compensate the damage
– natural persons: fine up to 100 000,- Czech
crowns (may be doubled) and up to
- legal persons and enterpreneurs: fine up to
1 000 000,- Czech crowns (may be doubled)
– withdrawal of illegally held specimens.
Liability for damage
Act N. 115/2000 Coll. :
- Beaver
- Otter
- Wolf
- Bear
- Cormorant
- Moos/elk
- Lynx
STATE ADMINISTRATION
• the Ministry of Environment
• the Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• regional authorities
• National Parks and Protected Landscape
Areas Administrations
• Municipal authorities
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Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Flora and Fauna
• Act No. 100/2004 Coll., on the Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
• Council Regulation No. 338/97 of 9 December
1996 on the protection of species of wild fauna
and flora by regulating trade therein, as
amended
• Council Regulations No. 1808/2001, 348/81,
3254/91, 35/97, 2087/2001,
• Council Decision No. 97/602/ES,
• Council Directive 83/129.
STATE ADMINISTRATION
• the Ministry of the Environment
• the Ministry of Finance
• the Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• customs authorities
• the Veterinary Administration
• Plant-Treatment Authorities
• regional authorities excluding the territory of
National Parks and Protected Landscape Areas
• National Parks Administrations and Protected
Landscape Areas Administration
ANIMAL RIGHTS
• Act No. 246/1996 Coll., on the Animal
Maltreatment, as amended,
• Act No. 166/1999 Coll., Veterinary Care
Act, as amended,
• Act No. 40/2009 Coll., Criminal Code, as
amended,
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General requirements
• ban to maltreat,
• ban to advertise maltreatment,
• ban to kill unreasonably,
• ban of certains methods of killing,
• ban to leave the animal with the intention to
dispose it of,
• duty to let officers enter the property for
inspection purposes,
• duty to take medical care and other measures
after anesthesia and others.
Specific requirements
• slaughter
• transportation
• pet animals
• lost and abandoned animals
• animals kept for farming purposes
• animals kept for experimental purposes
• protection of wild animals, involving the ban on
certain methods of hunting and killing.
Sanctions
• withdrawal of the animal, including the
duty to pay expenses related to the
withdrawal and veterinary care and other
expenses needed to keep the animal
• fines up to 500 000,- Czech crowns
• stop or limit the operation/activity for up to
5 years
• corrective measures.
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State administration
• the Ministry of Agriculture
• the Central Commission for Animal
Protection
• the Veterinary Administration
• Municipal Authorities and Municipalities