Organization and Organizing of Flood Measures in the Czech Republic until 2000 and after 2000

In this thesis I deal with organisations and organising of flood measures in the Czech Rep. until 2000 and after 2000. In the thesis I compare valid and no longer valid legislative regulations; by comparing them I observe the development of legislation concerning organisations and organising of flood measures in the Czech Rep. as well as the current legislative framework in this field. First, I compared legislative regulations valid until the flood of 1997 and after it and subsequently legislation that was changed on the basis of the flood of 1997 and the currently valid text of the Water Act no. 254/2001 Coll. The Acts no. 239/2000 Coll. on the Integrated Rescue System and the Act no. 240/2000 Coll. on Crisis Management, which were adopted in response to the community demand after the flood of 1997, when due to uncoordinated actions and confusion during the flood huge damage occurred to lives and health of people as well as their property, were not compared with regard to the date of their adoption. I have documented functionality of the current legislative set with practical outputs from the floods of 1997 and 2002 that clearly indicate the conclusion that legislation before 2000 was not good, even after the effort to improve it after the flood of 1997. These shortcomings have been remedied and the Water Act together with the Acts on the Integrated Rescue System and the Crisis Management represent a modern and functional model, which becomes apparent if you compare the outputs of the floods of 1997 and 2002. I consider the duality of management that occurs on announcement of a critical state as a partial flaw of the Act no. 254/2001 Coll. A flood is one of many possible emergency events and its solution should not be terminologically differentiated in the operative activities of collective management bodies - commissions - as in practice this results in a number of states of confusion and misunderstanding. A solution might consist in cancellation of flood commissions, which would remove management inconsistency during the development of a flood, possible misunderstanding, ambiguity in names of organisations, etc