<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The property owned by self-governing units represents an important socioeconomic factor with the potential to affect a wide range of aspects of life, considering the scope of self-governing units.The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the recent legal regulations regarding the proprietary position of Czech self-governing units (municipalities and regions) as well as comments on their development (considering wider circumstances) from 1990 to the present day. It focuses on the nature of legal entities sui generis (in Czech called “<italic>příspěvková organizace</italic>”), which perform ownership and other proprietary rights of the municipalities and regions on the basis of specific public law relations. Appropriate attention is also dedicated to other legal subjects operating in the sphere of territorial self-government considering their proprietary position. The sub-objectives of the article are the identification and explanation of solutions to the identified problems concerning the analyzed questions.The methodological part of the article is based on the analysis and critical evaluation of the current state of the discussed legal issues. The authors use the methods of legal hermeneutics to obtain correct interpretations of the analyzed legal regulations.The entities sui generis in question are found to be a relic of the transition period in Czech legal development after the 1990s and should be replaced with up-to-date forms of a public legal entity.</abstract>

The property owned by self-governing units represents an important socioeconomic factor with the potential to affect a wide range of aspects of life, considering the scope of self-governing units.The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the recent legal regulations regarding the proprietary position of Czech self-governing units (municipalities and regions) as well as comments on their development (considering wider circumstances) from 1990 to the present day. It focuses on the nature of legal entities sui generis (in Czech called “příspěvková organizace”), which perform ownership and other proprietary rights of the municipalities and regions on the basis of specific public law relations. Appropriate attention is also dedicated to other legal subjects operating in the sphere of territorial self-government considering their proprietary position. The sub-objectives of the article are the identification and explanation of solutions to the identified problems concerning the analyzed questions.The methodological part of the article is based on the analysis and critical evaluation of the current state of the discussed legal issues. The authors use the methods of legal hermeneutics to obtain correct interpretations of the analyzed legal regulations.The entities sui generis in question are found to be a relic of the transition period in Czech legal development after the 1990s and should be replaced with up-to-date forms of a public legal entity.

Territorial Self-Governing Units of the Czech Republic as Entities Possessing Ownership and Other Proprietary Rights (the Basic Conceptual Issues)

Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Veveří 70, 611 80 Brno, Czech Republic.

University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové 3, Czech Republic.

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The property owned by self-governing units represents an important socioeconomic factor with the potential to affect a wide range of aspects of life,...

Territorial Self-Governing Units of the Czech Republic as Entities Possessing Ownership and Other Proprietary Rights (the Basic Conceptual Issues)

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 105 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/danb-2016-0006

Keywords
Czech Republic, Ownership, Property, Proprietary Rights, Public Administration, Self-governing Units

© 2016 Petr Havlan et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Territorial Self-Governing Units of the Czech Republic as Entities Possessing Ownership and Other Proprietary Rights (the Basic Conceptual Issues)

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 105 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/danb-2016-0006

KeywordsCzech Republic, Ownership, Property, Proprietary Rights, Public Administration, Self-governing Units

© 2016 Petr Havlan et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Czech Republic, Ownership, Property, Proprietary Rights, Public Administration, Self-governing Units