Land use balance - methodology

A cadastral territory consists of a contiguous and jointly registered set of plots of land (parcel). Cadastral territories cover the entire territory of the state. In addition to cadastral territories, so-called territorial technical units (UTJ) are used, which are identical to cadastral territories, with the exception of those cadastral territories that are divided by the boundary of a city district or district (e.g. in Prague, Brno, Pilsen).

The total area of the territory is the sum of the areas of the individual cadastral territories, however, the relevant territorial unit can also lie on several cadastral territories, which do not have to form a continuous territory.

Agricultural land is a collection of land types (cultures) directly serving the agricultural production process as the basic means from which plant production is obtained.

Arable land is land on which cereals, root crops, fodder, technical crops, vegetables and other garden crops are regularly grown, or which are temporarily covered with grass (perennial crops on arable land, possibly temporary meadows). This also includes hothouses, greenhouses and greenhouses if they are set up on arable land.

Forest land includes arable land, i.e. land used directly for forest production, truly afforested or only temporarily deforested with the intention of reforestation, deforested, i.e. temporarily deforested part of forest land, serving the operation of forestry indirectly (area of forest nurseries, forest warehouses , soft forest roads, intersections of all kinds, if they exceed a width of 4 m, etc.), land taken from the agricultural land fund allocated to forestry for afforestation, but not yet afforested, land above the upper limit of tree vegetation, with the exception of built-up land (high mountain huts, ski lifts and other purpose-built facilities).

Water bodies include areas of ponds with fish breeding, pond lands that are summered, streams reserved for trout breeding, marshes, lakes, ponds and streams that do not serve or are not intended for fish breeding, rivers, impoundments, dams and other reservoirs (artificial and natural), canals, drainage and irrigation canals, watercourses and open sewers.

Built-up areas and courtyards include areas on which buildings are built (except for greenhouses and greenhouses) and courtyards belonging to residential, economic or industrial buildings as their accessories.

Other areas consist of land intended for storage and workshop space, as well as construction sites, if they are currently used for other purposes and cannot be used agriculturally, land intended for transport or telecommunications, intended for healthcare, physical education and recreation of workers, recreational areas for cottages (not private) and hotels, land designated as state nature reserves or other protected areas, areas of cultural monuments, unless agricultural production is planned on them or it is not forest land, parks, public or private ornamental gardens, land intended for mineral extraction and other raw materials and for the storage of by-products during the extraction of minerals and other raw materials and as permanent handling areas, etc. (heaps near shafts, silage pits, permanent field threshers, hard enclosures for poultry, cattle and pig cattle, mortuary), they are also cemeteries and land that cannot be cultivated agriculturally (ravines, potholes, protective dams, etc.) and land that does not provide a permanent benefit for other reasons, especially areas overgrown with bushes or covered with gravel or stones or bogs, i.e. waterlogged land.