Indebtedness and local self-government

Title: Indebtedness and local self-government The author: Bc. Vlastimil Jirouš The author of the thesis deals with the debt of local governments, ie municipalities and regions, and regulation of indebtedness. Regulation of indebtedness divided into control debt "ex ante", which helps prevent over-indebtedness, and "ex post" regulation, which establishes the procedure for dealing with over-indebtedness of local governments Debts of local governments in the Czech Republic is gradually increasing. Even though most of the debts are debts of large cities are most at risk of over-indebtedness of municipalities with less than 1,000 inhabitants. The main cause of increasing indebtedness of local governments are investing in infrastructure. Most local governments debt consists of obligations of the loan agreements. The most common creditors are then banks . The author analyzes the suitability of regulating local government debt in terms of content and in terms of constitutional law. Notes that this regulation is to some extent necessary and constitutional point of view also possible. The current legal regulation of borrowing ex ante in the Czech Republic is characterized as partial information and case report. Development of indebtedness of municipalities and counties are on state legislation virtually..