§ 20a Register of Enumeration Districts and Buildings

Section 20a

Register of Census Districts and Buildings

1. The Czech Statistical Office administers data on census districts, records territorial identification elements, and data on buildings on the territory of the Czech Republic in the Register of Census Districts and Buildings based on data acquired under special legal regulations or under this Act.
2. The Register of Census 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.
4. The Register of Census Districts and Buildings records

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

b) buildings or parts thereof (entrances) with assigned land-registry numbers or street numbers.

5. For the purposes of the Register it creates

a) a system of territorial elements: territory of the Czech Republic, territories of cohesion regions, territories of higher self-governing territorial units, regions, districts, municipalities, city districts and city parts, resp., basic territorial units, cadastral territory, territorial-technical unit, basic settlement unit, statistical district, and plot; and

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 Census Districts and Buildings:

a) identification code of the building,

b) territorial identification of the building, address, and location,

c) month and year of the building completion,

d) month and year of the building was cleared away,

e) reason for the building was cleared away,

f) type of owner,

g) occupancy of the house,

h) number of dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings,

i) ground coverage of the building in square metres,

j) enclosed volume of the building in cubic metres,

k) floor space of the building in square metres,

l) number of above-ground storeys,

m) character of the building,

n) type of vertical load-bearing structure,

o) connection to the water mains,

p) connection to the sewerage system,

q) connection to the gas supply,

r) type of heating,

s) lift in the house,

t) structure code,

u) address point code, and

v) number of inhabitants registered in the building.

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

a) identification code of the dwelling,

b) dwelling number in the house,

c) storey (floor),

d) occupancy of the dwelling,

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

f) number of habitable rooms,

g) type of heating,

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

i) sanitary facilities (bathroom, shower, toilet).

8. The Czech Statistical Office records in the Register of Census 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 registration importance and are assigned by the Czech Statistical Office to each building and each dwelling upon their entry into the Register of Census 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.
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.