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Statistická ročenka Olomouckého kraje

Methodology

6. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

Data on the organizational structure of the national economy are compiled from information kept in the Business Register (BR). The Business Register is made and administered by the Czech Statistical Office. Its contents are precisely defined by Act 89/1995 Sb., on the State Statistical Service.

The BR keeps records of businesses - legal persons, government departments and natural persons enjoying the status of an entrepreneur. A business that is economically active according to statistical surveys or administrative sources is considered to be a statistical enterprise-type unit (see Council Regulations No. 696/1993 and 2 186/1993). The BR is continuously updated by data from the Company Register, trades licensing offices, administrative sources, and statistical survey sources. The BR is primarily used by the State Statistical Service to determine the range of reporting units for individual statistical surveys.

The legal persons include associations of natural or legal persons, the most frequent cases being those established in compliance with the Commercial Code: limited liability companies, joint-stock companies and limited partnerships. Included further are civic associations, political parties and political movements, trade unions and special interest and church associations, chambers (of notaries, architects, pharmacists, etc.). Purpose associations of property including various foundations (funds) established for purposes of benefit to the public, make another group. Territorial self-governing units (local governments) are units established under the law regulating the self-government of the municipality as well as other self-governing units of higher or lower self-governing level. Apart from this the BR includes government departments, other entities defined by law and entities established directly by law.

Business companies and partnerships include general commercial partnerships, limited liability companies, limited partnerships limited by share (before 1993) and joint-stock companies. Cooperatives also include cooperative enterprises.

The natural persons include private entrepreneurs in business in compliance with the Act No. 445/1991 Sb., the Trades Licensing Act, self-employed farmers, agricultural entrepreneurs – natural persons since 1 May 2004 and natural persons carrying out business activities governed by regulations other than the Trades Licensing Act.

Private entrepreneurs in business under the Trades Licensing Act (tradesman) include natural persons having business permit under Act No. 105/1990 Sb., on the Private Enterprise of Citizens (before 1992) or natural persons with trade licence (from 1992).

Self-employed farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs include the group of self-employed farmers in business under regulations other than the Trades Licensing Act and since 1 May 2004 also agricultural entrepreneurs carrying out business under Act No. 252/1997 Sb., on Agriculture, as amended.

Private entrepreneurs in business activities other than the Trades Licensing Act (free-lance professions) include natural persons whose business activities are governed by separate regulations.

The institutional sector is an aggregate of economic entities (institutional units) of the same economic behaviour. The economic behaviour of each entity (institutional unit) is then clearly determined by a principal economic function and nature of activity.

Businesses set up (dissolved) are entities whose date of origin (termination) belongs to the appropriate year.



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Other regional information on the organizational structure of the national economy is available in the following CZSO publications:

e-13- 710 2-08

Statistical Bulletin of the Olomoucký region

Other information is published on the CZSO web pages:
www.olomouc.czso.cz - Czech Statistical Office Olomouc
http://vdb.czso.cz/vdb/en/index.jsp - Public database Czech Statistical Office
/csu/res/business_register- Business Register