§ 20a Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings

 
(1) The Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings maintained by the Czech Statistical Office records information on Enumeration Districts, territorial identification elements and buildings situated in the Czech Republic based on data acquired under special legal regulations^9f or under this Act.

(2) The Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings is a hierarchical system of registered objects which tracks their interrelations and changes in contents, time and space.

(3)  A part of the Register is spatial data on direct location of registered phenomena which are defined in accordance with relevant topographic bases^9h.

(4) The Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings records

a) a system of territorial elements and territorial registration units which tracks territorial, administrative, settlement and statistical structures,

b) buildings or parts thereof (entrances) with assigned land-registry numbers or street numbers.
 
(5) For the purposes of the Register

a) the system of territorial elements is formed by: area, region, district, municipality, city district or city part, basic territorial unit, cadastral territory⁹ⁱ, territorial technical unit, basic settlement unit, statistical district and site⁹ⁱ,

b) the system of territorial registration units is formed by: municipality part, street and other open public spaces.
Information on individual territorial elements and territorial registration units entered into the Register includes also size categories and administrative districts to which territories belong.
 
(6) The following data on buildings are entered into the Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings:

a) Identification Code of building,

b) territorial identification of building, address and location,

c) month and year of building completion,

d) month and year of building clearance,

e) reason for building clearance,

f) type of owner,

g) occupancy of the house,

h) number of dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings,

i) ground coverage of building in square metres,

j) enclosed volume of building in cubic metres,

k) floor space of building in square metres,

l) number of above-ground storeys,

m) character of building,

n) type of vertical load-bearing structure,

o) connection to water main,

p) connection to sewerage,

q)  connection to gas supply,

r)  type of heating,

s)  lift in the house.
 
(7) As to buildings with at least one dwelling, also individual dwellings characterised by the following information are recorded in the Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings:

a) Identification Code of dwelling,

b) dwelling number in the house,

c) storey,

d) occupancy of the dwelling,

e) total and habitable floor space of dwelling in square metres,

f) number of habitable rooms,

g) type of heating,

h) connection of dwelling to water main, gas and hot water supply,

i) conveniences (bathroom, shower, toilet).

(8)  The Czech Statistical Office records in the Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings changes of data entered under paragraphs 5 to 7. To this end it uses data acquired from administrative sources, from regular statistical surveys under this Act and data acquired from population and housing censuses.
 
(9) Identification Code of a building and Identification Code of a dwelling is used for unambiguous identification of a building and dwelling, respectively. These Identification Codes are only of recording importance^* and are assigned by the Czech Statistical Office to each building and each dwelling upon their entry into the Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings.
 
(10) Data mentioned in paragraph 5 and paragraph 6 excluding (g) are public and may be provided to anyone under conditions stipulated by a special legal regulation^9j.
 
(11) Data mentioned in paragraph 6(g) and in paragraph 7 are not public. The Czech Statistical Office shall provide them to a Ministry performing the State Statistical Service and to other government institution or territorial government if this institution or government is entitled to acquire the requested data by a special Act.

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* i.e. has no legal meaning in its own right. (Translator's note.)
^9f § 2(a) of Act No 158/1999 Sb.
^9g § 7(1) of the Commercial Code.
^9h Decision of the Government of the CR No 116/1995 Sb. defining geodetic reference systems and state map series obligatory for the whole state territory and principles of their use.
⁹ⁱ Act No 344/1992 Sb., as amended.

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