The new Civil Code (No. 89/2012 Col., hereinafter “NCC”) brought a lot of changes in the area of civil law. One of the most discussed provision is § 441 art. 2 NCC, whose last sentence sets: “If a special form for legal act is required, the power of attorney has to be in the same form.” This sentence in its consequence makes uneasy the assembling of general meetings of czech corporations with foreign shareholders, because especially this people let themselves to be represented on general meetings.

The European Parliament approved on 4.2.2014 the order suggestion of European Parliament and Commission about support of free movement of citizens and business by simplification of accepting of same public deeds (document) in EU. The simplification shall refers to the documents which are connected e.g. with a birth, a death, a name, a marriage, a registered partnership including parenthood, an adoption, a residence or with a real estate.

According to the amendment Act No. 303/2013 Col., which changes some Acts in the connection of recodification of private law, new wording of the provision § 42 Act No. 120/2001 Col., about distrainors and distrained activities (hereinafter “Distrain Order”) was enacted.

The new civil code changes the regulation of delay interests in the civil legal relations (among not entrepreneurs), when it brings the possibility of delay interests arranging in a different tariff than arranged by legal regulation, which was until today excluded. Since 1^st January it is possible to arrange the height of delay interests in every case, it means without respect, that it refers to relations between entrepreneurs and not entrepreneurs.

Till the end of 2013 default charge represented so called accessory right of debt as for instance an interest on late payment. In case of delay with a fulfilment of financial payment the creditor was entitled to require from debtor besides the fulfilment itself interests on late payment, if the Civil Code had not stipulated that the debtor is obliged to pay default charge. The default charge should have been paid by the flat-lesee if he had been in delay with payment of lease or so called “services”.

The New Civil Code (Act No. 89/2012 Coll.) does not regulate the default charge as an accessory right of debt any more. The default charge is newly regulated by the Act No. 67/2013 Coll, under which some topics related to providing of fulfilment connected with using of flats and non-residential premises in house with flats (providing of “services”) are regulated.

With efficiency form 1.1.2014, the amendment No. 293/2013 Coll. changes beside other thing a subject competence of courts at commercial disputes in which a made claim for financial fulfillment exceeds amount of 100.000,- CZK. Until 31.12.2013 these disputes had been solved at regional courts.