The government should approve the postponement of part of the building law in early February, Minister of Regional Development Ivan Bartoš (Pirates) told reporters after yesterday’s cabinet meeting. He added that he introduced to the ministers the procedure of postponement so that the law could be discussed in an accelerated procedure. After approval by the government, the House will deal with the material.
According to Bartoš, the purpose of the postponement is to gain time to prepare a substantive amendment. The basis will be the version of the building law, which the opposition prepared before last autumn’s elections. Bartoš wants to maintain the current competence of building authorities. The building law approved last year envisages that the authorities will operate at the regional level, the central administrative office will be the Supreme Building Authority (NSÚ).
Bartoš intends to further abolish the so-called institutional integration. He does not agree that building authority staff should take decisions regarding, for example, the protection of water, monuments or forests. “It’s comfortable in some ways, but it’s risky. We want to replace it with so-called process integration,” said Bartoš.
In connection with the greater emphasis on digitization, a system should be maintained where the applicant for a building permit will only need to deliver one documentation to the building authority or upload one documentation via the Internet portal and will not have to worry about anything else.
Bartoš also intends to maintain a specialized building authority, which will be in charge of large constructions and thus significantly speed up their construction. According to Bartoš, this office could have extended powers, which is what it is now about.
The Chamber of Deputies approved the new building law in July, and is due to take full effect on July 1, 2023. Deputies discussed the coalition’s proposal to postpone part of the building law on Friday, when they suspended . Bartoš therefore decided to choose the path of a brief government bill, which will be submitted to deputies in early February.
Dostálová said that the government should specify what it envisages under the fact that the amendment should be discussed in an expedited procedure. “If this means that the government wants to proceed with section 90 (to approve the amendment expeditiously in the first reading of the House), then it must be clear to them that two parliamentary groups can veto it. “What the government wants to approve as an amendment was not unconstitutional,” Dostalova said.
Bartoš said in a press release from the ministry that if the government approved the bill on February 2, the first reading should take place in the Chamber of Deputies in mid-February, and the lower house could approve the bill by May. According to the Minister, the amendment to the Building Act should be submitted shortly after the approval of the draft deferral.
During the debates over the law, the former minister pointed out that, according to an earlier statement by the Supreme Administrative Court, construction law should never have become part of the combined model of state administration.
Sorce: CTK
