Water Management Department

WATER LAW SECTION

Guidance and forms to download

• Applications for a licence to use surface water or groundwater, or to amend such a licence
• Applications for a permit to abstract groundwater for domestic use or to amend such a permit
• Applications for a permit to discharge waste water into surface waters or to amend such a permit
• Applications for a permit to discharge waste water into groundwater or for an amendment to such a permit
• Applications for a permit for certain activities or for an amendment thereto
• Applications for consent under Section 17 of the Water Act
• Applications for approval of the operating regulations for a waterworks
• Proposals for the establishment of a water source protection zone or amendments thereto

List of activities

Exercise of state administration by the water authority within the meaning of Act No. 254/2001 Coll., on Water:

• regulates, restricts or, where appropriate, prohibits the general use of surface water;
• authorises all water use (e.g. abstraction, impoundment or accumulation of surface water, the utilisation of energy potential, the use of water for the rearing of fish or waterfowl, or other animals for business purposes, other forms of water use, the discharge of waste water, the abstraction of surface and groundwater for the purpose of obtaining thermal energy…);
• authorises the abstraction and other management of surface or groundwater for the needs of individual citizens (households);
• grants authorisation to individual citizens for the use of water;
• issues permits for certain activities (e.g. planting shrubs or trees in floodplains, the extraction of sand, gravel or silt from riverbeds, geological work in floodplains, the restoration of a watercourse to its original channel,…);
• issues permits for the discharge of waste water containing particularly hazardous or harmful substances into the sewerage system;
• grants consent for construction works, installations or activities that may affect water conditions (in cases where a permit is not required) – e.g. the installation of long-distance pipelines, underground storage of substances, landfill sites;
• grants consent for construction works, mineral extraction or land alterations in floodplains, for construction works within 15 metres of the air foot of a watercourse’s protective embankment, for construction works within water source protection zones, for the construction of individual residential buildings and for land-use alterations in floodplains that do not affect drainage conditions;
• grants consent for construction within water source protection zones;
• issues opinions on the location, design, alteration or removal of a structure, facility or activity, where such a proposal may affect water conditions, energy potential, or the quality or quantity of surface or groundwater;
• issues decisions and determinations on the establishment, amendment or revocation of water source protection zones;
• approves contingency plans for potential threats to surface and groundwater arising from the handling of hazardous substances;
• manages operations to deal with water management emergencies;
• issues permits for the restoration of a watercourse to its original channel;
• imposes an obligation to draw up and submit for approval the operating and, where applicable, operational regulations for a waterworks;
• acts as the flood authority – outside flood periods;
• defines the active zone of the floodplain and sets out restrictive conditions within the floodplain (excluding major watercourses);
• confirms the consistency of the factual and graphical sections of the flood plans drawn up by landowners and building owners;
• carries out flood inspections;

Act No. 274/2001 Coll., on water supply and sewerage systems:

• decides on public service obligations;
• approves sewerage regulations;
• imposes fines for breaches of the Act.

BUILDING REGULATIONS

The Příbram Municipal Authority, Environment Department, temporarily exercises state administration within the remit of the building authority in accordance with Act No. 283/2021 Coll., the Building Act, as amended, in matters relating to waterworks.

List of activities

The sections set out below relate to the Water Act (Act No. 254/2001 Coll.)

• decides on applications for authorisation of a waterworks project in accordance with Section 55a,
• may order the suspension of works on a waterworks structure or the removal of such a structure constructed or being constructed under an exceptional procedure in accordance with the Building Act, following an order from the flood authority of a municipality, a municipality with extended powers or a region pursuant to Section 55a(9) or the removal of the structure pursuant to Section 55a(8),
• decides on the establishment of a protection zone for a waterworks in accordance with Section 58(3),
• issues a certificate confirming fulfilment of the conditions for the creation of an easement pursuant to Section 59a(3),
• decides on technical and safety supervision pursuant to Section 61(7),
• decides on changes to the category of a water structure, the scope of technical safety supervision, or, where applicable, the conditions for its provision pursuant to Section 61(8),
• maintains a register of data on waterworks and on the performance of technical safety supervision for waterworks in Category IV of technical safety supervision, over which technical safety supervision is not carried out by an authorised person pursuant to Section 61(12)(a),
• shall forward data from the register it maintains concerning waterworks and the performance of technical safety supervision to the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with Section 61(12)(b),
• shall monitor the performance of technical safety supervision of waterworks pursuant to Section 61; and
• shall supervise waterworks in accordance with Section 110(5).

 Standard forms

• Application for a construction or installation licence
• Application for an amendment to a permit
• Application for an amendment to a project prior to completion
• Proposal for the designation of a protection zone
• Application for a final inspection certificate
• Application for a trial operation permit
• Application for a supplementary building permit
• Application for authorisation to change the use of a building
• Notification of completion of a simple building

Other forms required under the Building Act and its implementing regulations can be found on the website of the Ministry of Regional Development at www.mmr.gov.cz
Further information regarding the functions of the building authority can be found on the website of the Příbram Municipal Authority, the Building Authority and Spatial Planning Department.