Act No. 237 amending the Act No. 50/1976 Coll. on territorial planning and building order (Building Act) as amended by later regulations and on change and amendment of certain acts.

Article 1 and 2 shall read:” Article 1 (1) The territorial planning shall continually and comprehensively design the spatial arrangement and the functional use of a territory, define its principles, propose material and time coordination of activities influencing the environment, ecological stability, cultural and historical values of a territory, territorial development and landscape creation in compliance with principles of sustainable development. (2) The territorial planning shall create conditions for permanent harmony of all activities over territory with particular regard to the care for environment, achievement of the ecological stability and provision of sustainable development, protective use of natural resources and conservation of natural, civilization and cultural values. Article 2 (1) The territorial planning shall include these tasks and activities: a) it shall determine the regulations of spatial arrangement and functional use of territory; b) it shall determine necessary interventions into territory for sanitation, reconstruction or recultivation purposes and it defines the manner of its further use; c) it shall define protected territories, protected objects, rest areas and protective zones, be they not established under special regulations, and it shall provide the protection of all protected parts of the country; d) it shall assess and evaluate territorial and technical effects of prepared constructions and other measures on the territory and propose their scope, which underlies their environmentally sound and safe use; e) it shall regulate the location of constructions and define technical, urban planning, architectonic and environmental requirements for their planning and execution; f) it shall define the principles of the use of natural resources, conditions of territory and overall environment in order that the activities shall not exceed the bearable loading of the territory1a) and to create and maintain the ecological stability1b) of the landscape; g) it shall propose territorial and technical and organizational measures necessary for improvement of the environment, achievement of the ecological stability and provision of sustainable development. (2) The tasks of territorial planning shall be provided through: a) Monitoring, evaluation and recording of data and information about the territory, especially by 1. Permanent monitoring of spatial arrangement and functional use of the territory; 2. Regular evaluation of regulations for spatial arrangement and functional use of the territory applied; 3. Monitoring of the ecological stability and bearable loading of the territory”. Paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be added to Article 112, which shall read:”(3) Expropriation proposal shall include the identification of proceedings participants, identification of expropriation land or construction, proposed extent and reasoning of the requirement with a statement of purpose of proposed expropriation, the proposal of refund and evidence that the attempt for acquirement of the right to the land or construction by an agreement was unsuccessful. The details on the content of the proposal shall be laid down in generally binding regulation [Article 143, paragraph 1, point c)]”.

Amends: Land Use Planning and Building Order Act. (1997)