In January, we received the decision of the Supreme Court, confirming that businesses, whose premises had been closed since March 2020 due to the state of crisis, may claim damages according to the Crisis Act. As such, the Court refused purposeful interpretation of Section 36 of the Crisis Act by the Ministry of the Interior. According to thius interpretation, only …
EU Guidance on Apps Supporting Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to Data Protection
At the end of April, the European Union published non-binding guidance on apps supporting the fight against COVID 19 pandemic in relation to data protection (2020/C 124 I/01). Designed for use by developers, the guidance sets out features and requirements for voluntary apps supporting the fight against COVID 19 pandemic that: • provide accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic; or …
Antivirus Programme to Give Rise to Compensatory Lawsuits?
Targeted at businesses ordered to temporarily cease or curtail operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment sustainability programme Antivirus offers only a limited wage compensation scheme under which the Czech government would pay 80 per cent of wages for employees of businesses that have ceased or curtailed operations due to quarantine (up to a maximum of CZK 39,000 per employee) and …
Tomáš Nielsen on the Removal of the Czech Telecommunications Office Board Chairman
The removal of the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTO) Board Chairman by the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade was not in accordance with law. As believed by a number of Czech legal professional approached by the Czech server lupa.cz, the malpractice may render questionable the decisions adopted by the CTO Board in future. As explained by the leading TMT lawyer and …