To participate in the fulfilment of the task of the Ministry of Justice concerning the reform of the penal law, both material and proceeding one. To prepare the solution of the reform of the administration proceedings and administration punishments, including the amendment of the law No. 200/1991 Coll. on offences. To provide the Ministry of Justice with necessary documents and participate with this Ministry on the reform of the administrative judiciary.
To prepare the new law on the execution of the punishment (it should contribute to the greater effectivity of the execution of the punishment).
To participate in further creation of the more effective measurements for combat the corruption and serious economic criminality concerning especially the misuse of state means prepared mainly by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. To provide co-operation especially in the field of activities of the Police of the Czech Republic and the Office for Investigation for the Czech Republic.
To conclude the elaborations on the bill on foreigners residence and the bill on asylum and to present them for the governmental approval.
To prepare bills ensuring the transformation of some administrative activities from the Police of the Czech Republic to district authorities (the bill on inhabitants registration, the bill on travel documents and travelling abroad, the bill on identity cards).
To prepare the bill on the management of a crisis, which would adjust the activity of the government and state administration authorities in situations of the crisis, mainly in order to establish standards of the necessary centralisation of the management and to present it to the government.
To present the bill on the factual intention of the law on the Integrated Protective System the aim of which is to finish the establishment of the Integrated Protective System.
To ensure the fulfilment of tasks resulting from the transformation of competences in the field of the civil protection from the Ministry of Defence to the Ministry of Interior, to prepare the bill of the factual intention of the law on the protection of inhabitants.
To work up the draft of the amendment of the law No. 153/1994 Coll. on intelligence services of the Czech Republic, in the wording of the law No. 118/1995 Coll. (to present to the government in March 1998). The factual intention was approved by the government resolution No. 419 from July 16, 1997. To present the factual intention of the law on the control of intelligence services by the Parliament.
To work up the factual intention of the amendment of the Czech National Council law No. 424/1991 Coll., on the association in the political parties and political movements, in wording of later rules (to present to the government in April 1998).
To prepare the bill on running of private security services and analogous activities and on the change and amendment of the law No. 455/1991 Coll. on trade business in wording of later rules and the draft of the factual intention of the law on the gathering of inhabitants.
To prepare the bill of the amendment of the edict, which determines details for the elaboration of the accident plan of the district and of the external accident plan. The bill of the amendment of the edict No. 22/1977 Coll, which states the detailed regulations concerning registers in the wording of later rules, is being prepared.
To prepare the amendment of the law No. 266/1994 coll. on tracks, which will implement again the stricter legal regime for the stay of persons in the outskirts of the track.
To prepare the factual intention of the amendment of the law on energy, initiated wording of the trade law and the law on trade offices.
To prepare the bill of the factual intention of the law on the state service and the clash of interests, the draft of the amendment of the law No. 1/1991 Coll. on an employment (which among others will define the area of the foreigners employment more clearly) and the bill of the articled wording of the law on the social assistance and the law on the socially-legal protection of children.
To prepare the factual intention of the law on the institutional and protective education, the performance of the judicial decisions on the institutional treatment, the custody, the performance of the punishment of young people.
To elaborate the draft of the amendment of the law No. 133/1985 Coll. on the fire protection, which adjusts relations of members of the Fire Brigades of the Czech Republic as to work and law and the protection of inhabitants and the performance of the state administration in the civil protection affairs.
To elaborate the draft of the amendment of the law No. 288/1995 Coll. on fire arms and ammunition.
In the course of 1998 the interested departments will develop further activities in the legislation sphere, which are connected with the area of the internal security and the public order15.
Priorities of the Republic Committee for the Criminality Prevention:
The continuation of the Complex Co-operative Program of the Criminality Prevention on the Local Level.
To make the criminality prevention system of children and youth of high-quality.
To form the attitude of the public to the security questions.
Tasks resulting from the Program of the Ministry of Interior in the Sphere of the Criminality Prevention and the prevention of the misuse of addictive substances for years 1997-2000.
To enlarge the number of the information groups of the Police of the Czech Republic in cities, which realise the Complex Co-operative Program of the Criminality Prevention on the Local Level.
To organise the International Conference on Criminality Prevention of Children and Youth.
To continue in the realisation of the Complex Co-operative Program of the Criminality Prevention on the Local Level, including the financial coverage.
To propose the methodologically united preventive activity at schools in the field of the specific criminality prevention in the co-operation with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Training.
To enter the subject of the criminality prevention into the newly drawn up service preparations of policemen.
To elaborate the problems of human rights and to co-operate with non-governmental organisations in the frame of the departmental competence.
To work up the strategy of the motor vehicle criminality prevention, the prevention of burglaries in houses, the prevention of the criminality in the recreation areas and the prevention focused to the individual protection of persons.
To realise the mass media policy in the area of the criminality prevention.
The detailed assessment of all fields of preventive activities of the Ministry of Interior and other departments (which are members of the Republic Committee for Criminality Prevention) will be incorporated in the "Report on the continuous fulfilment of the Criminality Prevention Strategy until 2000", including information concerning the use of financial means determined for the criminality prevention for 1997. This report will be presented to the discussion of the Government of the Czech Republic till the end of March 1998.
7.3. International Co-operation
Henceforth the effort will be given to the gradual bringing the legal standards under the direction of the Ministry of Interior close together with legal documents of the European Community and European Union. The Positional Document to the dealings on membership will be continuously actualised according to the development in the Czech Republic and the European Union. The active participation of the Ministry of Interior representatives in negotiations, which should be initiated in April 1998, is expected. The National Program of Acquis Acceptance will be elaborated and continuously actualised in the sphere of the Ministry of Interior competence. The report of experts mission concerning the problems of the third pillar will be assessed and relevant measures will be put forward.
The consistent and solid internal preparation will mainly play the key role on the way to the full integration of the Czech Republic to NATO. In 1998 there will be the necessity to make steps in three levels: 1) The co-operation with NATO as the institution, the intensive engagement in the work of committees. 2) The co-operation with parliaments and governments of the NATO member countries. 3) The co-operation with other departments during the internal preparation (the internal preparation ought to include legislation, system and procedural changes).
Conventions of the Council of Europe, which are under the direction and co-ordination of the Ministry of Interior and which were as from the access point determined as priorities, will be prepared for signature.
12 contractual documents are recently just before signature, the most significant of them are agreements concerning the area of the police co-operation with Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Slovenia, Uzbekhistan and Tunisia. Agreements on the mutual assistance during emergency events with Slovakia, Germany and Austria and the re-admission treaty with Bulgaria are no less important as well.
More than 40 international contractual agreements have been in the various extent of the unfinished state. The co-operation in the combat organised criminality and illegal trafficking drugs and psychotropic substances with Italy seems to be essential. Also other countries e.g. states of the Latin America, Latvia, Morocco and Saudi Arabia are interested in the conclusion of similar agreements.
The attention will be paid to the end of the contractual arrangements effectively in the sphere of the governmental secret phone and telegraph connection by the form of the conclusion of new agreements with Hungary, Poland and Russia.
From the standpoint of further contractual activities it is necessary to stress the question of the access of the Czech Republic to Council of Europe conventions, which mainly belong to the Ministry of Interior competence and the realisation of which is expected in 1998. The Ministry of Justice will continue in the preparation of especially bilateral agreements from the sphere of the legal assistance and extradiction of accused and sentenced persons. The exchange of experience of the prison service personnel will continue in the frame of the planned study trips of the selected employees in Canada, England, Saxony, Bavaria, Poland and Hungary.
Negotiations concerning the conclusion of agreements on the mutual employment of inhabitants (between the Czech Republic and Mongolia and Bulgaria) and the exchange of study trips in the field of an employment (between the Czech Republic and Hungary, Luxembourg and Lithuania were interested as well) will continue under the direction and co-ordination of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
7.4. Basic Activities in Personnel, Economic and Organisational Areas for 1998
Priorities of the Ministry of Interior and the Police of the Czech Republic in the Personnel Area:
To prepare programs concerning the admission to NATO and the European Union for policemen and students of secondary police schools of the Ministry of Interior.
To make the fundamental revision of the contents, form and organisation of the basic professional preparation of policemen.
To follow the effectiveness of the recruitment and selection and to propose measures for the improvement of the situation in co-operation with the Police Presidium.
To prepare the draft of new procedures of the engagement to the Police of the Czech Republic with the emphasis on personal characterisations of an applicant. To cancel the examination of intellectual abilities of secondary-school leavers and university-educated persons and instead of that to prepare the draft of the test of knowledge.
To work out the system of the stabilisation of present policemen and employees of the Police of the Czech Republic.
To participate together with the Police of the Czech Republic on looking for policemen with the high potential, to register them in the database of personnel resources and to ensure their further education for the performance of those functions, to which they are well-disposed.
Priorities of the Ministry of Interior and the Police of the Czech Republic in the Economic Area:
To ensure by consistent savings, although in the tight budget for 1998, at least the most necessary operating means for the Police of the Czech Republic in the way, that its functionality would not be endangered.
To amend the top rule in the filed of the economy.
To continue in the process of EKIS building.
To continue in analysing the activities of the department in order to transfer some economic activities of the Ministry of Interior to other types of departmental organisations or outside the department.
To prepare the economy of the department to the fulfilment of tasks concerning the expected admission of the Czech Republic to NATO and European Union.
Priorities of the Ministry of Interior and the Police of the Czech Republic in the Organisation and Management Area:
The solution of the state administration in the field of the protection of official secrets - the establishment of the National Security Office.
The transfer of the state administration in the civil protection affairs from the Ministry of Defence to the Ministry of Interior.
The elaboration of the organisational order of the Ministry of Interior reflecting the reality of the united ministry and the re-structuralisation of its divisions.