Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency
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Representation of limited liability company by statutory representatives and its limits
When founding and operating a limited liability company, its members usually deal with the issue of setting up its corporate governance and defining the powers of the statutory representatives (executives). In this article, we will present the basic possibilities of limiting the statutory body’s power to act on behalf of the company, and the consequences of the breach of such limits.
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New possibilities for Jewish émigrés from Germany and Austria, new obstacles for those from former Czechoslovakia
In Germany, a liberalization of the Citizenship law is planned this year. In Austria, since September 2020 more than 15.000 applications have been submitted by Jewish émigrés and their descendants. But in the Czech Republic…
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Are environmental groups in the Czech Republic finally excluded from participation in zoning and building permitting proceedings once and for all?
Effective as of 1 January 2018, an amendment to the Nature and Landscape Conservation Act of 2017 barred environmental groups from participation in zoning and building permitting procedures. After almost four years, the Constitutional Court has now upheld this law as being constitutional. The decision by the Constitutional Court thus confirms that environmental groups cannot invoke the Nature and Landscape Conservation Act to demand participant status in zoning and building permitting procedures, though the Constitutional Court does note that groups are not affected in their right to subsequently challenge a zoning decision or building permit, once issued, before the administrative courts.
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