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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 43 No 1 (1997), 73–78
Otázka klauzulí o přednostní aplikaci mezinárodních smluv
[The Issue of Clauses on the Preferential Application of International Treaties]
Monika Pauknerová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.243
published online: 31. 03. 2020
abstract
The issue of the relationship between Czech law and international treaties and their application within the framework of Czech law is not resolved by provisions under Art. 10 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic. Art. 10 explicitly defines only ratified and declared international treaties on human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Constitution remains silent in the cases of international treaties dealing with other subject-matters. The Constitution does not contain a general provision on the relationship between international and national law. Therefore, we should consider individua! provisions of various statutes, containing so-called clauses on the preferential application of international treaties, to provide the necessary legal basis; e.g. a provision such as “the law herein shall apply unless the international treaty binding the Czech Republic states otherwise.” Such clauses have brought many problems and the author gives examples of some of them to illustrate the Jack of general conceptual solutions She deals with differences in the wording of the clauses on preferential application of international treaties. Some of them require the international treaty in question to be published in the Collection of Laws; some do not. There have been cases, however, where the publication of international treaties was delayed or the treaties were not published at all. The author also contemplates a case where such a clause on the preferential application of a treaty does not exist, particularly in relation to the application of the European Agreement on the Association of the Czech Republic to the European Communities.
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