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    Czechia: Tenants’ preemptive right to their apartment unit – observations on a baffling Supreme Court opinion

    In resolving an issue concerning the tenant’s statutory right of first refusal to ‘their’ apartment unit, the Supreme Court arrived at surprising conclusions regarding the moment in which the owner becomes obliged to offer the unit for purchase to the tenant.

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    Czechia: Key concepts in the new Building Act with relevance for the permitting process

    After many years, the professional community may finally look forward to the (staggered) entry into force of key parts of the all-new Building Act (Act No. 283/2021 Coll.). What are they, and how do they impact the permitting process?

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    Czechia: Employee sick-leave insurance and more stringent rules for so-called ‘agreements on the completion of a job’ (DPP)

    The so-called ‘consolidation package’ of measures designed to curb the shortfall of the national budget has arrived in the Senate, which will discuss the bill on 8 November.

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    Czechia: You, too, may end up forfeiting your real property, come the end of 2023

    The end of this year marks ten years since the (not-so-)new Civil Code has come into force. Will this milestone have impact on those owners of real property who, as at that date, are purely identified as such in the land register?

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    EU-succesion regulation No 650/2012: denied competencies in case of death of elderly people in care institutions in other EU countries

    Regulation No. 650/2012 has been in force for no fewer than eight years already; even so, there still exist cases in which no court is willing to exercise jurisdiction and open inheritance proceedings upon the demise of persons who moved to another EU member state to receive institutional care there.

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