Organization for Youth Education & Development (OYED)

Laws Concerning Youth in the Czech Republic

Laws Concerning Youth in the Czech Republic

Between 1991 and 2002 the first concept of state policy with regard to the young generation was put into practice in the Czech Republic. This contributed to a significant extent to the passing and running of measures favorable to children and young people. On the basis of this positive experience a new concept of the state child and youth policy until 2007 was created (from now on referred to as ‘concept’) which was passed by the government of the Czech Republic on 7 April 2003 and became the government’s most important strategic material in putting measures favorable to children and young people into practice.

The fundamental principles and starting points of the state youth policy are on the one hand the responsibility of the state for the creation of conditions for the development of the young generation and for fulfilling tasks which come from the state or which the state is obliged to fulfill in the framework of a range of international agreements, and on the other hand the responsibility of families and depending on age also the responsibility of individuals for themselves. In the concept people up to 18 years of age are regarded as children and people up to and including 26 are youths.


2007

  • Conceptual frameworks of the state policy for the children and youth field for the years 2007 to 2013
    The concept created a legal framework in the Czech Republic for the realization of the necessary measures in the area of children and youth.

2006

  • Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code, Section 246, prohibition of work by adolescents
    This Act regulates the legal relations arising in the performance of dependent work between employees and employers, these relationships are labor relations and provide some limitations on youth employment.

2004

  • Act No. 561/2004 Coll., on pre-school, primary, secondary, post-secondary and further education
    This Act shall regulate pre-school, basic, secondary, tertiary professional and other education at schools and school facilities, lay down conditions under which education and training (hereinafter referred to as “education”) are executed, define the rights and duties of natural and legal persons involved in education, and specify the scope of competencies of the bodies executing state administration and self-government in the system of education.

2003

  • Act No. 218/2003 Coll., on the responsibility of youth for illegal acts and on justice procedures in the matters of youth (Act on justice procedures in the matters of youth)
    The aim of the Act is to use educational measures rather than criminal measures. The Act supports the use of diversions, which make it possible for the delinquent to avoid court proceedings. Diversions may be used in the pre-trial proceedings or the proceedings before the court.


2002

  • Act No. 109/2002 Coll., on institutional upbringing or protective care in educational facilities and on preventative custody in educational facilities
    Act on institutional and protective education in school facilities and on preventive educational care in school facilities and on institutional and protective education in schools and on preventive educational care in school facilities.

1993

  • Resolution of the Presidium of the Czech National Council No. 2/1993 Coll.
  • Article 29 of CFRF
    It stipulates the right of adolescents (15 to 18 years of age) to special working conditions, to increased protection of health at work, to special protection in labor relations and to assistance in preparation for professional career.
  • Article 32 of CFRF
    It stipulates the protection of parenthood and family and special protection of children and adolescents
    (15 to 18 years of age).
  • Article 233 of CFRF
    It stipulates the right to education.

1963

  • Act No. 94/1963 Coll., on family
    The Act sets the minimum age for marriage.

1961

  • Act No. 140/1961 Coll. Criminal Code, Catch VI, criminal offences against family and youth
    The purpose of the Criminal Code is to protect the interests of society, the constitutional system of the Czech Republic and the rights and legitimate interests of both individuals