Czech Association of Local Authorities will call for a postponement of the effectiveness of the Building Act
The Association of Local Authorities (SMS) will address the newly elected deputies and call on them to propose and enforce the postponement of the effectiveness of the new Building Act. The SMS presidency decided on Wednesday. The media representative of the association, announced Lukáš Novák about this today. The new regulation of building law was approved by deputies through a veto of the Senate in July this year, when the norm was also signed by President Miloš Zeman. The law moves building authorities under the state and provides for the establishment of the Supreme Building Authority. Under it, the individual building authorities will be organized in a similar way, as is now the case with the Financial Administration. The wording of the law has a number of critics who have strengthened after the weekend parliamentary elections in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Together coalition (ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09) won the election, and it will have a majority of 108 seats in the Chamber of Deputies with the coalition of Pirates and Mayors. Both coalitions announced before the elections that if they rule after the October elections, they will change the building law.
According to the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES), the new amendment to the law is intended to speed up construction proceedings and ensure compliance with the set deadlines. Opponents of the law, however, believe, among other things, that the state administration will move away from citizens and construction proceedings will be complicated. The law will enter into force in mid-2023, some changes will take effect on January 1 next year. However, several sections of the law were effective the day after their publication in the Collection of Laws. These include provisions on building closures issued under older building legislation.
“We will strive to postpone the effectiveness of the law by at least eighteen months. This is the minimum time necessary for the current form of the building law to be amended to take into account proposals submitted in previous months. construction proceedings, the people in the regions and the state budget, to which we have been drawing attention for a long time,” said SMS chairman Stanislav Polčák.
The association instructed its vice-president and re-elected deputy Věra Kovářová (STAN) to initiate the mentioned steps in cooperation with other deputies who have been dealing with construction legislation for a long time. Kovářová assures that critics do not intend to change anything in the intention to simplify and speed up construction proceedings. “However, we will strive to ensure that the amendment of construction legislation does not harm the legitimate interests of local governments or the continuity of construction proceedings,” she said. They believe that they will find understanding in the new House for changes. “The Senate made its opinion on the current building law very clear when it unanimously rejected it in July,” she recalled.
The Council of the Association of Regions demanded that the building law be postponed in September. It thus joined the earlier initiative of the Pardubice Region. “We support the postponement of the building law, because we are convinced that the process is definitely not ready to work at the moment, which the new legislative framework gives it,” said Martin Kuba, chairman of the council and South Bohemian governor ( ODS).
Source: CTK
