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Ostrava
FORLEX s.r.o., attorneys-at-law
28. října 3159/29, 702 00 Ostrava
Brno
FORLEX s.r.o., attorneys-at-law
Palác Trnitá, Trnitá 542/18, 602 00 Brno
Billing information
IČO: 04275705, DIČ: CZ 04275705
ČSOB
Account No. CZK – 321695472/0300
Account No. EUR – 333568649/0300
Registred in the Commercial Register maintained by the Regional Court in Ostrava, Section C, File 63028.
Consumer protection information
On 5 February 2016, the Czech Bar Association was authorized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic to deal with alternative consumer dispute resolutions in the field of disputes between a lawyer and a consumer arising from legal service agreements (under Act no. 634/1992 Sb., on consumer protection, as amended). The website of the designated body is www.cak.cz.
Dear clients, Please find below an updated summary of measures adopted by Czech Government in connection with the coronavirus. The Government has decided on the prohibition of free movement of persons to be prolonged until 1. 4. 2020. The other applicable extraordinary measures were prolonged as well.
Dear clients, on 19 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a temporary framework to support the economy in the context of the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic (the "Temporary Framework") to remedy serious disruption of the European economy.
Dear clients, With respect to the dynamic course of events regarding the coronavirus situation we hereby inform you of the measures adopted by the Government. On 12 March 2020, Government Resolution No. 194 declared a state of emergency in the Czech Republic, which is in force from 12 March 2020, 02:00 p.m. for a period of 30 days, the maximum possible period, which can be extended only with the approval of the Chamber of Deputies.
Dear clients, on Friday (6. 3. 2020) we have brought you information about the extraordinary measure issued by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, that concerns the obligatory quarantine of citizens returning to the Czech Republic from Italy.
Dear clients, today (March 6, 2020), the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic has issued an extraordinary measure on the obligatory quarantine of citizens returning to the Czech Republic from Italy. Given that a large number of our clients are currently facing a question of how to address this measure from a practical point of view, we are bringing you the following brief recommendation:
On 1 January 2020 the Energy Regulatory Office’s Price Decision No. 3/2019 of 26 September 2019 came into effect, establishing support for supported energy sources for the coming year.
On 1 January 2020, the Czech Social Security Administration launched the live operation of the eNeschopenka electronic workers compensation system. The goal of this system is to simplify the exchange of information between sick/insured persons, doctors, employers and the Czech Social Security Administration.
With effect as of 1 January 2020, the base rate of the minimum salary for a 40-hour work week increased from CZK 79.80 per hour to CZK 87.30 per hour, or from CZK 13,350 per month to CZK 14,600 per month.
As of January 2020, management of the Forlex law firm will be expanded with the addition of two experienced attorneys, Lenka Němcová and Eva Ostruszka Klusová, as partners of the firm.
The Chamber of Deputies is currently discussing two bills to amend the Enforcement Code, the purpose of which is to lower the number of enforcement applications and concurrently to relieve bailiffs of fruitless enforcement procedures that drag on for years.
The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court has recently ruled on a case where a member of the Board of Directors entered with the company he was working for into an employment contract under which he was employed with the company as a technical director.
An amendment to the Senate’s statutory measure on the real estate acquisition tax took effect on 1 November, extending, in the case of a first-time purchase of title to a housing unit, the current exemption from the real estate acquisition tax to units in single-family detached houses.
According to a recent ruling of the High Court in Olomouc, shares in company profits may only be distributed among persons other than the partners (e.g. employees), if this is expressly permitted by the Memorandum of Association.
The previous legal framework effective until 31 December 2013 did not exclude the possibility of establishing the right-of-way even in situations where the property owner was responsible for their own lack of access.
The Supreme Court recently reached the conclusion that an email without an electronic signature does not meet the requirements of a written form, i.e. those of a legal action in writing.
In accordance with the amendment to the Sickness Insurance Act effective as of 1 January 2020, attending physicians will fulfil information obligations associated with employees’ temporary incapacity to work, in particular, the obligation to report its occurrence, termination or change or any breach of the temporary incapacity to work scheme, electronically.
The Supreme Court has recently issued a decision expressly surpassing the existing case-law conclusions on the General Meeting not being entitled to decide on the distribution of profits in the second half of the year based on the regular financial statements for the previous accounting period.
Following long battles, the proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was discussed and approved by the European Parliament at the end of March.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted a proposal amending the Insolvency Act aiming to make debt relief available to a wider range of debtors incapable of repaying their debts in full.
On 1 April 2019, the so-called “Tax Package”, amending certain laws in the field of taxation and customs, entered into force. In addition to the amendments to the Income Tax Act and the Value Added Tax Act, about which we have already informed our readers, this amendment also introduces the following modifications.
On 24 April 2019, the Act on the processing of personal data was published in the Collection of laws under No. 110/2019. In addition to adapting the Czech legal system and ensuring its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it also regulates cases
The draft amendment to the Investment Incentives Act has passed its first reading in the Chamber of Deputies. Under this proposal, an investment incentive could be allocated to investment projects carried out in the processing industry, in technology centres and in centres for strategic services.
The law firm FORLEX led by partner Ivan Barabáš supported by Senior Associate Simona Zahradníčková advised the management of ICON Communication Centres s.r.o.
The Chamber of Deputies will start the first reading of a major amendment to the Business Corporations Act, which also includes an amendment to the Act on Public Registers.