Legal regulation of ownership of cooperative flats

The diploma thesis deals with contemporary legislation of housing co-operative as one of the most frequent type of flat ownership in the Czech Republic. The housing co-operatives represent legal entities that meet the housing needs of more than 1.5 millions people in the Czech Republic. Therefore, undoubtedly, the legal aspects of the housing cooperatives became a much discussed issue. Although the housing co-operatives have a long tradition on the territory of Czech Republic, the thesis focuses mostly on the effective legislation taking into consideration the historical aspects when required due to necessity of the issue's complexity. The thesis is divided into five separate chapters. The first chapter generally describes the contemporary housing co-operative legislation and its challenges in regards to the near future recodification of the Civil law. Second chapter focuses on defining fundamental terms such as "co-operative," "housing co-operative," "co- operative housing unit," etc. The third chapter concerns the co-operative membership emphasizing the establishment of the membership, rights and obligation of the members, membership contribution, transfer of rights and duties connected to the membership in a housing co-operation, the membership share transfer, complicated issue of the joined..