Legal Regulation of Nature and Landscape Protection

The diploma thesis is addressing legal regulation of nature and landscape protection and it is covering mostly sections 4-13 of the Act no. 114/1992 Coll, on protection of nature and landscape. The aim of the thesis is to provide comprehensive overview of the tools of nature and landscape general protection, describe them in detail and point out legislative shortcomings of current regulation. Descriptive and analytical method is being used in the thesis. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is devoted to an introduction into issues linked to the protection of nature and landscape, it presents the most important terms and instruments used in the protection of nature and landscape. The second chapter is focusing on the major environmental international agreements of which the Parliament of the Czech Republic has given its consent to ratification and which are legally binding for the Czech Republic. The following chapter describes European legislation related to the protection of nature and landscape. The greatest regard is dedicated to the fourth and fifth chapter. The fourth chapter describes legal regulation of general protection of species. Thus, it deals with the issues of protection of wild fauna and flora, including the protection of birds which is separate in the taxonomy..