Nature Conservation

Guides and forms to download

• Permit for the felling of trees growing outside a forest
• Registration of a significant landscape feature
• Location and authorisation of a building or other activity that may reduce or alter the character of the landscape
• Consent for the creation or removal of paths
• Binding opinion on intervention in a significant landscape feature
• Binding opinion from the nature conservation authority on the afforestation of land exceeding 0.5 ha
• Designation of a memorable tree
• What to do if you find an injured animal

Information on the environment in Příbram and the surrounding area

• http://www.pribram.eu/zivot-ve-meste/zivotni-prostredi.html
• How to feed waterbirds correctly

It acts as a nature conservation authority in accordance with Act No. 114/1992 Coll., on the protection of nature and the landscape.

These activities primarily include:

• ensuring general nature conservation;
• issuing permits for the felling of trees growing outside forests, and requiring replacement planting and subsequent aftercare;
• maintaining a register of publicly accessible service roads, tracks and footpaths;
• designating memorable trees and their protection zones, or revoking their protection status;
• registering significant landscape features;
• issuing binding opinions on interventions affecting significant landscape features, both those protected by law (forests, peatlands, watercourses, ponds, lakes and floodplains) and those that have been registered;
• issuing binding opinions on the afforestation and deforestation of land exceeding 0.5 ha;
• issuing permits for the introduction of non-native plant and animal species and hybrids into the landscape;
• determining alternative procedures for the protection of birds;
• receiving notifications of tree felling and deciding on the suspension, restriction or prohibition of tree felling;
• granting consent for the siting and authorisation of buildings and other activities that could reduce or alter the character of the landscape;
• designating temporarily protected areas;
• imposing an obligation on developers to carry out a biological assessment;
• imposing conditions on the carrying out of activities which could cause unauthorised changes to generally or specifically protected parts of the natural environment;
• exercising state supervision;
• deciding on the possibilities and conditions for restoration to the original state and imposing an obligation to implement appropriate compensatory measures;
• imposing fines for offences and administrative offences in accordance with the law;
• defining and assessing the local system of ecological stability;
• exercising residual powers in the field of nature and landscape conservation.

It performs the functions of a nature conservation authority within the framework of the Integrated Environmental Opinion (JES) in accordance with Act No. 114/1992 Coll., on the protection of nature and the countryside

In the case of a building project requiring a UEO, no separate decisions, binding opinions or other administrative acts are issued; instead, these are integrated into the UEO. These acts are as follows:
a) consent to an intervention that could lead to the damage or destruction of a significant landscape feature or to the endangerment or weakening of its ecological-stabilising function pursuant to Section 4(2),
b) the imposition of measures to prevent the unnecessary death of plants and the injury or death of animals or the destruction of their habitats pursuant to Section 5(3),
(c) the establishment of an alternative procedure for the protection of birds in accordance with Section 5b(1);
(d) authorisation to fell trees in accordance with Section 8(1), including the requirement for replacement planting in accordance with Section 9(1);
(e) granting an exemption from the prohibition on destroying, damaging or altering caves, or otherwise changing their preserved condition, in accordance with Section 10(2),
(f) consent to intervention affecting the character of the landscape in accordance with Section 12(2),
g) consent to the authorisation or carrying out of construction works, changes to the use of land, landscaping, alterations to the water regime of land or water management, the use of chemical agents and changes to the land classification pursuant to Section 37(2),
h) consent to the carrying out of activities and interventions within the protection zone of a listed tree pursuant to Section 46(1),
i) authorisation of exemptions from prohibitions concerning listed trees and specially protected species of plants and animals pursuant to Section 56(1), and
j) consent to the establishment or removal of publicly accessible service roads, tracks and footpaths outside built-up areas pursuant to Section 63(1).
If a project requiring a Joint Environmental Statement (JES) or part thereof is situated within a specially protected area, a Site of Community Importance or a Special Protection Area, the competent nature conservation authority (e.g. the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Regional Authority) shall assess it in terms of all interests protected by this Act in a joint procedure and issue a joint decision thereon, which shall include all consents, authorisations or other decisions, binding opinions or statements that would otherwise have to be issued in respect of the project under assessment.

It administers the scheme for compensation for damage caused by selected specially protected animals (in particular the otter) in accordance with Act No. 115/2000 Coll. 

Under Act No. 115/2000 Coll., on the provision of compensation for damage caused by selected specially protected animals (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), compensation may be claimed for damage caused by selected species. In such cases, the nature conservation authority may issue a confirmation of the presence of these species at the affected sites, based on a report of their occurrence.

Under Section 3 of Act No. 115/2000 Coll., ‘selected animals’ means:

a) the European beaver (Castor fiber L.),
b) the European otter (Lutra lutra L.),
c) the European elk (Alces alces L.),
d) the brown bear (Ursus arctos L.), 
(e) the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx L.),
(f) the wolf (Canis lupus L.).

Scope of compensation

Compensation shall be paid for damage caused by a selected animal or a great cormorant in the years 2024, 2025 and 2026 to

a) the life or health of a natural person,
b) specified domestic animals,
c) dogs used to guard specified domestic animals,
d) fish,
e) bee colonies and beekeeping equipment,
f) unharvested field crops,
(g) permanent crops,
(h) enclosed premises, or
(i) movable property within enclosed premises.

Provided that the conditions laid down by this Act are met.

Conditions for reporting to the nature conservation authority

Under Section 8(1), the affected party must report any damage arising under this Act to the locally competent nature conservation authority within 48 hours of discovering it, based on the location where the damage occurred.
Please report the presence of the aforementioned species via the data box (ID: 2ebbrqu). Attach photographs to the report as supporting evidence, and, where applicable, the numbers of individuals observed.
Following the report, the nature conservation authority may then initiate an on-site investigation, on the basis of which it will issue a confirmation of the occurrence of the species in question. You may submit this confirmation when applying for compensation for damage to the competent state administrative authority with subject-matter and territorial jurisdiction (the Regional Authority of the Central Bohemian Region).