Renewal of the Law Abolished the Constitutional Court

Dne 1. 3. 2011 vyhlásil Ústavní soud nález sp. zn. Pl. ÚS 55/10, 80/2011 Sb. (dále jen „Nález“), jehož výrokem ruší uplynutím dne 31. prosince 2011 zákon č. 347/2010 Sb., kterým se mění některé zákony v souvislosti s úspornými opatřeními v působnosti Ministerstva práce a sociálních věcí, pro protiústavnost procedury přijetí tohoto zákona; v odůvodnění tohoto nálezu Ústavní soud zároveň konstatoval, že nebude-li do konce odkladu vykonatelnosti nálezu, tedy do 31. prosince 2011, přijata nová úprava, „obživne dnem 1. ledna 2012 úprava obsažená v právním řádu přede dnem účinnosti zákona č. 347/2010 Sb., zrušeného tímto nálezem“.The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic has come through a few rulings to the conclusion that it is competent to „revive“ (render effective again) with a judgment derogating unconstitutional law a law which has been derogated by this unconstitutional law. The Constitutional Court has also defined that this „revival“ is possible if its judgment leaves the legislative body time to pass appropriate legislative provisions within the delay of the judgment legal force. This „revival“ has been also used by the Constitutional Court’s judgment dated 1 March 2011, No. Pl. ÚS 55/10. In my opinion, the „revival“ by the above mentioned judgment is not consistent with the Constitution because the Constitutional Court does not have the competence given by the Constitution or Constitutional Court Act to bring about this legal consequence with the judgment of the delayed legal force. The only measure to achieve „revival“ of the former legal regulation is deemed by me to be the Constitutional Court’s judgment with ex tunc (ab initio, from the beginning) derogative effect. Is it in admissible to pass this judgment but to remove a null legal act and some fullfilled legal act of one legal effect. The Constitutional Court’s judgment dated 1 March 2011, No. Pl. ÚS 55/10, is neither null nor a legal act of one legal effect so it could not be derogated ex tunc with the consequence of the former legal regulation „revival“