The Comparison of Legal Forest Protection in the Czech Republic and France, including Relevant Context

The rigorous thesis proceeds from the mutual confrontation of the Czech and French legal institutes, aiming to the protection and treatment with one of the most important environmental life zones - the forest. In view of the historical roots, proceeding in both cases from the continental legal system influenced by Roman law as well as by the European Community law, the thesis reveals a large scale of significant similarities and notifies the most important divergences by comparative method, searching the resembling French legal regulations to the Czech body of laws. The hereby presented work further documents the most considerable variances from a formal point of view, for example the existence of a vast Forest Code in case of the French regulation or an increased constitutional protection assured by the Environmental Charter. From the material point of view, the French forest legislation completely lacks any key term definitions and also the target group of the regulation differs - there is about 74% of the private forest owners in France, whereas within the Czech Republic, this number is practically inversive