Land-use policy can be separated roughly into three processes: decisions on land use (or development), creating zoning requirements to facilitate the land use plan, and permitting to ensure that those developing the land abide by zoning requirements (and therefore the land-use plan).

The employment law team of Eversheds Sutherland, led by partner Radek Matouš, has prepared a traditional selection of Czech TOP 10 case law in 2022, which should not escape your attention.

Innovation relies on human knowledge, skills and creativity to develop new technology and utilize to benefit human society. Humans with that knowledge, or those skills, and that creativity are a precious and scarce commodity, and, therefore, in high demand in those economies that generate the most innovation.

Due to the decision of the Council of the European Union in October 2022 to prolong the decision 2022/382 of 4th March 2022, as the European Commission proposed it, for one year, the Czech parliament has prolonged the temporary protection until 31st March 2024. In national law, the law No. 65/2022 Sb. was changed accordingly. An electronic registration is obligatory as of 30th January 2023 until 31st March 2023. Many other EU countries did this as well, and the European countries with similar rules, like Denmark, and Switzerland, Norway and the UK, have prolonged this protection, too.