§ 20 The Business Register
Section 20
The Statistical Business Register
- The Czech Statistical Office enters a business into the Statistical Business Register on the basis of data acquired under special acts or this Act. The entry into the Register is only of registration importance.
- The data entered into the Statistical Business Register are as follows:
a) identification number,
b) business (firm) name,
c) residence of legal persons and government departments and units, place of business activities of natural persons,
d) territorial identification of residence or place of business activities, postal address, and telecommunication connections if possible,
e) scope of business activities or other activities,
f) legal form,
g) date of foundation of the legal person or government department or units; date of issuing a license or registration document of the natural person or date of entry authorising a natural person to carry out business activities,
h) date and cause of winding up of the legal person or government department or unit; date and cause of termination of authorisation of the natural person to carry out business activities,
i) size category of the business,
j) national accounts sector (classification),
k) birth certificate number of the natural person,
l) number of employees,
m) income (yield),
n) amount of basic capital or foundation capital or stock capital,
o) acreage of agricultural utilised area and managed forest land,
p) acreage of managed arable land,
q) activity or inactivity of the business,
r) value of goods received from other Member States of the European Communities in relevant calendar period,
s) value of goods dispatched to other Member States of the European Communities in relevant calendar period, and
t) agenda identifier of the natural person.
- Internal units of businesses are also entered into the Statistical Business Register. A business shall provide data necessary for entering the internal unit into the Register upon request by the Czech Statistical Office.
- Data on internal units, which are entered into the Statistical Business Register, are
a) identification code,
b) type of internal unit,
c) name,
d) address and territorial identification,
e) scope of activities,
f) date of establishing,
g) date of dissolving,
h) size category,
i) number of employees,
j) revenues, and
k) identification number of the place of business.
- When the Internal Unit is an accommodation establishment, the following is entered into the Statistical Business Register in addition to data under paragraph 4:
a) type of category and seasonality of an accommodation establishment,
b) capacity of an accommodation establishment used for temporary accommodation of persons, and
c) number of persons working with the accommodation establishment.
- The Czech Statistical Office continually updates the Statistical Business Register. To this end, the Czech Statistical Office is entitled to request a business to provide the necessary data once a year. A business is bound to answer this request by the time required.
- Data on a local unit mentioned in paragraph 2 (a) to (j), paragraph 4 (a) to (h) and paragraph 5 (a) are public and may be provided to anyone upon request.
- Data mentioned in paragraph 2 (k) to (t), paragraph 4 on kind-of-activity units, in paragraph 4 (i) and (j) on Local Units and in paragraph 5 (b) and (c) are not public, unless otherwise stipulated by a special Act. 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 and if they are not data acquired for statistical purposes.
