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Czech Republic

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. Finally, we also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

Act No. 119/1990 Coll. on Judicial Rehabilitation (see text here)

1990

Act No. 403/1990 Coll. on the mitigation of consequences of some property violations (see text here)

1990

Law 212/1990 on the revocation of immovable property of the state in the long-time use of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (see text here)

1990

Act No. 497/1990 Coll. on the Reversion of Property of the Socialist Youth Organization to the People of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (see text here)

1990

Constitutional Act No. 496/1990 Coll. on the return of property of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to the people of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (see text here)

1990

Act No. 451/1991 Coll., establishing additional conditions for the execution of some functions in state bodies and organizations of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (big lustration law) (see text here)

1991

Act No. 87/1991 on Extra-judicial rehabilitation (see text here)

1991

Act No. 279/1992 Coll. on some additional prerequisites for the execution of some functions occupied by appointed or nominated servicemen of the Police of the Czech Republic and the Prison Service of the Czech Republic (small lustration law) (see text here)

1992

Illegality of the Communist Regime and on the Resistance to it, exempts from statutes of limitations crimes committed during the communist regime under certain conditions (see text here)

1993

Act No. 217/1994 Coll. on the Provision of a Onetime Monetary Sum to Certain Victims of Nazi Persecution (see text here)

1994

Government Statute No. 165/1997 Coll. on the payment of nonrecurring compensation towards the mitigation of some injustices wrought by the Communist regime (see text here)

1997

Act No. 212/2000 Coll. on the Mitigation of Certain Property Injustices Caused by the Holocaust (see text here)

2000

Law Against Support and Dissemination of Movements Oppressing Human Rights and Freedoms

2001

Act No. 107/2002 Coll., amending Act No. 140/1996 Sb. on the disclosure of files created in the course of activities on the part of the former State Security Service, and some further acts (see text here)

2002

Act No. 203/2005 Coll. on the Compensation of Certain Victims of the Military Occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, German Democratic Republic, Polish People’s Republic, Hungarian People’s Republic and Bulgarian People’s Republic (see text here)

2005

Act No. 357/2005 Coll. on the Acknowledgment of Participants in the National Struggle for the Formation and Liberation of Czechoslovakia and Certain of their Survivors, on Extra Contribution to the Pensions of Certain Persons, on a Onetime Monetary Sum to Certain Participants in the National Struggle for Liberation in the Years 1939 to 1945 and on the Amendment of Certain Acts

2005

Act No. 181/2007 Coll. on the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Security Services Archive, and on amendments to some acts (see text here)

2007

Act No. 262/2011 Coll. on the participants in anti-communist opposition and resistance (see text here)

2011

 

 

 

MAPS

Repressive regime