Receipt of applications and other submissions

Fee schedule for the provision of information

• The publication of information is carried out by the municipality at its own expense.
• The municipality is entitled to charge a fee for providing information on the basis of a request (oral or written). The amount of the fee for the provision of the information shall be determined by the officer in charge of providing the information in accordance with the schedule of fees set out below.
• If a royalty has been agreed in the licence agreement, the costs cannot be claimed.
• The prices specified in the Tariff do not apply to the issue of copies, copies, photocopies and extracts from official files, for which administrative fees are levied according to item 3 of the Tariff of Administrative Fees, which forms an annex to Act No. 368/1992 Coll. on Administrative Fees, as amended.
• If the municipality requires payment for the provision of the information, it shall notify the applicant in writing prior to the provision of the information.
• If the municipality fails to comply with its notification obligation to the applicant under the preceding paragraph, it shall lose its right to reimbursement.
• The provision of the information is conditional upon payment of the required fee. If the applicant fails to pay the fee within 60 days of the date of notification of the amount of the required fee, the municipality shall withdraw the application. The time limit shall not run while the complaint against the amount of the requested payment is being processed.
• The final price for the provision of information is the sum of the partial prices listed in the tariff.
• The reimbursement is a revenue of the municipality.

Tariff of charges

The payment is made by the applicant on the basis of a bill in the office of the OÚ, or by agreement by wire transfer to the account of the OÚ before receiving the information.

If the applicant fails to pay the amount of the required payment within 60 days of the date of notification, the municipality shall abandon the application.

I. Cost of copies

• for making a single-sided copy of the format A4 - 4 CZK
• for making a double-sided copy of the format A4 - 10 CZK
• for making a single-sided copy of the format A3 - 15Kč

II. Costs of technical data media measures

• for 1 floppy disk, if this form is required by the applicant - 8 Kč
• for 1 CD, if this form is required by the applicant -  30 CZK
• in the case of the use of another technical data carrier, the cost shall be set at the purchase price of the required technical data carrier

III. Cost of sending the information to the applicant

• the cost of the postal service used or requested shall be reimbursed at the actual cost

IV. Costs of exceptionally extensive information retrieval

• where the provision of information involves an exceptionally extensive search for information, the cost for each whole 1 hour of extraordinary extensive search 208 CZK

Remedies

Appeal

1) A municipality's decision to refuse an application may be appealed

2) The municipality shall submit the appeal together with the file to the superior authority within 15 days from the date of receipt of the appeal.

3) The superior authority shall decide on the appeal within 15 days from the date of submission of the appeal by the municipality. The time limit for the decision on the appeal is 15 working days from the date of receipt of the appeal by the municipality. The time limit cannot be extended.

(4) In a judicial review of a decision on an appeal on the basis of an action under a special provision of law, the court shall examine whether there are grounds for refusing the application. If there are no grounds for refusing the application, the court shall quash the decision on appeal and the municipality's decision to refuse the application and order the municipality to provide the requested information.

Complaint about the procedure for dealing with a request for information:

The applicant may lodge a complaint about the procedure for handling a request for information (hereinafter referred to as "complaint"):

(a) who does not agree with the handling of the request by reference to information already published, insists on the direct provision of the information and the municipality has not provided it to him

(b) to whom information has not been provided, a final licence offer has not been made and a decision has not been taken to reject the application after the expiry of the 15-day period or the extended 15+10-day period, as the case may be

(c) to whom the information has been provided in part without a decision to refuse the remainder of the request

(d) who disagrees with the amount of the fee for providing the information

The complaint can be made in writing or orally. If the complaint is made orally and cannot be dealt with immediately, the municipality shall make a written record of the complaint.

The complaint must be filed with the municipality within 30 days of:

(a) delivery of a communication about information already published

(b) receipt of notification that the information requested does not fall within the remit of the municipality (deferral of the request)

(c) notification of the amount of payment for the information before it is provided

(d) the expiry of the time limit for providing the information (15 days from the date of receipt of the request or from the date of its completion), or an extension of 10 days for serious reasons.

The complaint shall be decided by the superior authority.

The municipality shall submit the complaint, together with the file, to the superior authority within 7 days of the date on which the complaint was received, unless within that period it fully satisfies the complaint itself by providing the requested information or the final licence offer, or issues a decision rejecting the application.