22. 1. 2026
| Kristýna Faltýnková
The new Building Act became fully effective on 1 July 2024, and you may
remember that everyone was trying to submit their building permit applications
in June to avoid the new rules. The digitalisation of building permitting
procedures was also supposed to be launched on the same date. We all know how
that turned out – the system is currently operating under a so-called bypass
arrangement, with the original system running alongside the remnants of the new
digital system.
The new government has now introduced an amendment to the Building Act, which
partly returns to the so-called Klára Dostálová version, i.e. the original
form of the new Building Act. That version, however, never entered into force,
as it was substantially amended into the form we have been working with since
2024. This is not, however, a step backwards, nor is it merely a change to the
structure of the building authorities – the amendment introduces many more
changes to the Building Act.
In the meantime, the amendment has already passed the Chamber of Deputies and is
now before the Senate. Along the way, however, it has changed so significantly
that it is worth reading the current text rather than the original proposal: the
effective date has been postponed from 1 July 2026 to 1 January 2027, the new
system of authorities at regional and local level will not begin operating until
1 January 2028, and some of the mechanisms originally included in the proposal
have been dropped altogether.
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