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Directive 97/7/EC on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts was transposed into the law of the Czech Republic by the Amendment of the Civil Code Articles 52 - 57 in Part Five of the Code, entitled Consumer Contracts. The provisions of the Civil Code give legal protection to consumers who purchase goods and services by means of a distance communication - that is, where the consumer and the supplier do not have face to face contact. The regulation therefore covers, among others, the sale of goods via e-mail, but also sales effected by teleshopping. The consumer shall be offered...

The Czech Republic has become the first country in Central and Eastern Europe to pass a law on electronic signatures. The Czech Parliament adopted the Zákon c. o elektronickém podpisu (Electronic Signature Act) on 29 June 2000 in order to transpose Directive 1999/93/EC into domestic law. The Act contains definitions that correspond with those set out in the EC Directive. An "electronic signature" is defined as data in electronic form which are attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and which serve as a method of authentication. An "advanced electronic signature", which...

The new Act also includes provisions implementing the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) (see IRIS 2000-2: 15). It regulates copyrights and related rights - namely, the rights of the author regarding his work, of the performing artist regarding his performance, of the producer of a sound recording regarding his recording, of the producer of an audiovisual recording regarding his recording, of the radio or television broadcaster regarding his original broadcast, of the person who made public a hitherto unpublished work for which the term of protection...

The new Law regulates the provision of the so-called universal service for the period of full telecommunications liberalisation. It defines the rights and obligations of telecommunications operators and customers, it allows new business entities (undertakings) to enter the industry, and defines the role of the state in the orientation and regulation of the market. The new Law aims to achieve compatibility with EC legislation. The Law sets out the conditions for the setting up and operating of telecommunications equipment and networks, the rights and obligations of the providers of those networks,...

On 4 April 2000, the Parliament of the Czech Republic passed zákon o ochrane osobních údaju (the new Data Protection Act). The Act sets out rights and duties linked to the processing of personal data and the conditions for their transmission abroad, thus transposing Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. According to the law, personal data means information on a particular or determinable natural person. Information that does not meet this criterion is not protected and may, just...