A draft law on the postponement of the effectiveness of the new Building Act is counting on the partial postponement of the establishment of the state building administration and the establishment of a special building authority. The material was approved by the government today, Minister for Regional Development Ivan Bartoš (Pirates) informed at a press conference after the government meeting. According to the submission report, the proposed law does not repeal the new building code, it only partially postpones it.
“I am submitting to the government this little amendment that will let go of the things we believe are right, which is the creation of the Special Building Authority at the end of the year, which will deal with supraregional constructions, roads, gas pipelines. Simply those complex constructions that exceed and the borders of those individual regions,” said Bartoš.
By the end of this year, Bartoš also wants the Chamber of Deputies to discuss a substantive amendment to the Building Act as such. According to the Minister, when it aims to completely reverse the establishment of the Supreme Building Authority. He does not want to allow centralization, which, according to Bartoš, proved to be bad even in the case of the National Sports Agency.
“We want to replace this with process integration – digitization should be at the core. Officials, citizens or companies who build will access the system remotely, the principle of one process one stamp will be maintained, but we will leave the building authorities in the municipalities closer to the problem,” added the Minister.
The material approved today only formally modifies the previous draft of the coalition deputies, which the Chamber of Deputies dealt with in mid-January. The opposition took advantage of the absence of some coalition lawmakers and suspended the proceedings until March 1. “It has a similar content and purpose as the mentioned parliamentary bill. Only adjustments of a formal nature are made in response to the time lag of the discussion of the bill,” the ministry said in the bill.
The approved proposal still envisages the establishment of a Specialized and Appellate Building Authority (SOSÚ), colloquially referred to as a special building authority. According to the proposal, the new building law will enter into force on July 1, 2023, as originally planned.
Bartoš’s predecessor and shadow minister for local development Klára Dostálová (for YES) had previously warned of a possible double track, when the establishment of only SOSÚ without the rest of the law would allow the state to secure its buildings, but citizens would still have problems. According to her, it is also important to ensure who will enforce black buildings.
Source: CTK
