Conflict of interest of public officials

1 Abstract The dissertation is focused on the topic of conflict of interest as a decision-making problem in the performance of public functions, when the public interest, which the public official has to promote or defend by virtue of his position, and his private interest come into conflict. The existing institutes of the Czech legal system, which regulate situations of conflict of interest, are divided into several groups, to which chapters of the dissertation are dedicated. Specifically, it concerns i) the pivotal and overarching duty of prevention and prioritizing the public interest over personal interest; ii) so called 'genuine incompatibility' and iii) 'non-genuine incompatibility'; iv) reporting obligations; and v) a category of other institutes focusing foremost on cooling-off period and regulation of lobbying. The dissertation focuses specifically on the following areas of problems: i) in the case of genuine incompatibility (Chapter 4) on the issue of the cumulation of the function of a member of Parliament of the Czech Republic with the function of a member of the council of territorial self-governing units and certain negative manifestations associated with it in the process of adoption of laws affecting the territorial self-governments; ii) in the case of non-genuine incompatibility (Chapter..