Course Details

Building Law

Academic Year 2024/25

BZA001 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BPC-SI / E Summer Semester 4th year

​ BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 4th year

The law system of the Czech state. The building law as part of the system of administrative law. Building Act. Implementing regulations to the Building Act. Legal regulation of administrative offenses. Expropriation. Conduct of business by natural and legal entities in building industry. Basic employment relations.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

JUDr. Radka Nevědělová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

The subject extends the knowledge gained at secondary school.

Aims

The objective of the course is to make the students familiar with the legal order of the Czech Republic focusing on the Building Act and its implementing regulations.
After completing the course students will be familiar with the Building Law.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281620

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the course, basic legal concepts. Legal regulation in the Czech Republic. European law.
  • 2. Town and country planning and its instruments.
  • 3. Planning permission proceedings, types of planning permissions.
  • 4. Building code, building permit and notification, building permit proceedings. Authorized inspector.
  • 5. Structure realization. Utilization and removal of structures. Energy intensity of buildings.
  • 6. Selected activities in construction. Authorization according to the Law. No. 360/1992 Coll., on practice of profession of authorized architects and authorized engineers and technicians working in the field of building constructions.
  • 7. Administrative offenses. Expropriation.
  • 8. Law No. 254/2001 Coll., on Water and Amendments to Some Acts (The Water Act)
  • 9. Law No. 274/2001 Coll., on Water Mains and Sewer Systems for Public Use and Amendments to Some Acts (The Water Mains and Sewer Systems Act)
  • 10. Waste economy. Waste management.
  • 11. Air protection. Protection of agricultural land resources.
  • 12. Basic employment relations, requisites of employment contract.
  • 13. Trade companies, their basic characteristics, status of partners. Trade business.