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STATE AID PROGRAMMES IN THE

HOUSING SECTOR

CATALOGUE OF EXAMPLES

MINISTRY FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

INSTITUTE FOR SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

CZECH REPUBLIC, BRNO 2004

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THE AUTHORS OF THE CATALOGUE

Ing. arch. Hana Šimková, Ph.D., Ing. Eva Dubnová, Ing. arch. Hana Halasová, Ing. Vladimír Hyvnar, Mgr. Jaroslav Kube�ka, Ing. Petr Martykán, Ing. Marie Polešáková, Ph.D., PhDr. Marta Severová, Mgr. Robert Veselý

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The team of authors wish to thank the designers of the planning documentation and the representatives of the towns and cities of Haví�ov, Ostrava, Pardubice, Svitavy, Brno, Chrudim, Písek, Planá nad Lužnicí, Strakonice, Týn nad Vltavou, Kdyn�, Kralupy nad Vltavou and Velké Mezi�í�í for their cooperation.

Authors of the Catalogue

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS............................................................................................................3

FOREWORD ..........................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................7

Schematic map of the Czech Republic presenting the localizations of the cities dealt with.................................................................................................................9

CHAPTER 1 .........................................................................................................11

Programme of Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements ................................13 Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work)................................................14 „Panel Programme“ – Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel Buildings .....................................................................................................14

Selected examples..............................................................................................17 Haví�ov .................................................................................................................19 Ostrava .................................................................................................................29 Pardubice..............................................................................................................41 Svitavy ..................................................................................................................51

CHAPTER 2 ........................................................................................................61

Programme of Construction of Supported Housing – protected dwelling, halfway dwelling, entry-level dwelling; house with daily care.............................................63

Selected examples..............................................................................................65 Brno ......................................................................................................................67 Chrudim ................................................................................................................73 Písek.....................................................................................................................79 Planá nad Lužnicí .................................................................................................87 Strakonice.............................................................................................................97 Týn nad Vltavou..................................................................................................105

CHAPTER 3 .......................................................................................................113

Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure.......................................................................................................115

Selected examples............................................................................................117 Kdyn�..................................................................................................................119 Kralupy nad Vltavou............................................................................................123 Velké Mezi�í�í .....................................................................................................133

ANNEXES ..........................................................................................................141

Annex No. 1 – Unabridged wording of the programmes and government regulations applied..............................................................................................143 Annex No. 2 – Table of the elaborators of documentation, photographic documentation and of other specifying information ............................................165

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FOREWORD

Under the Act on the Establishment of Ministries and Other Central Institutions, the Ministry for Regional Development isresponsible for implementing the Czech Government’s housing policy. A modern housing policy needs to stand on three key principles: on the availability of housing and on the formulation of comprehensive legal provisions regulating the rules for all forms of housing. The third postulate is the existence of social doctrine.

This is not only a set of measures for citizens faced with temporary or constant housing problems, but also the opportunity to grant loans to young people so that they can buy somewhere to live. These principles form the basis for the goals and commitments of the Government in its housing policy, as

declared by the Prime Minister, Stanislav Gross, in the policy statement issued on 24 August 2004. The budgets of Czech municipalities are inadequate to cope with the renovation and maintenance of housing stock. Therefore state intervention in this field is irreplaceable. The Ministry for Regional Development works in association with the State Housing Development Fund on the use of grants. The repair, modernization, and regeneration of prefabricated blocks of flats and whole housing estates require much of the funding available. Between the 1960s and 1980s, most blocks of flats were constructed as prefabricated structures, and almost a third of the population currently lives in this type of housing.

This is the fourth collection of practical examples of the most diverse forms of support available for housing in the Czech Republic in the past four years. Besides examples of repairs and regeneration in prefabricated developments, this publication also covers aid channelled into the construction of tenant-occupied flats and into technical infrastructure, and the programme for the construction of subsidized flats. This catalogue documents only part of the broad range of grant programmes in the field of housing policy.

Although hundreds of millions of crowns have been ploughed into this sector, the options open to the national budget as it seeks to promote the Government’s housing policy remain severely limited. In this respect, the funds and resources of the European Union in the 2007-2013 budget period are a significant cushion. The EU Housing Ministers Conference has the potential to become a fitting platform to discuss this problem and find prospective solutions.

Ing. Ji�í Paroubek The Minister for Regional Development

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INTRODUCTION

Since 2002, the Institute for Spatial Development has edited, within the framework of an edition series, three publications relating to housing – “Houses with daily care” (Catalogue of technical layouts), “Panel-building settlement regeneration” (Catalogue of examples carried out in 2001), and “Panel-building settlement regeneration” (Catalogue of examples carried out in 2002). At present, a summarizing catalogue of the examples “State aid programmes in the housing sector” in the Czech Republic links loosely with them. The aim of the publication is to present and inform about good practice and contemporary possibilities of Government housing policy, or, as the case may be, to inspire and motivate other cities and towns to taking use of the programmes of subsidy investments into housing.

The publication has been elaborated by the collective of authors from the Institute for Spatial Development in Brno, under the warranty of the Department of Housing Policy at the Ministry for Regional Development.

The publication itself is divided into three parts in compliance with orientation of individual assistance programmes.

In the first part of the publication the realization examples of the following programmes are presented:

• Programme of Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements• Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel

Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work) • „Panel Programme“ – Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-

Panel Buildings Concrete realizations from the cities of Haví�ov, Ostrava, Pardubice, and Svitavy are presented in this part.

The realization examples of the following programme will be found in the second part of the publications:

• Programme of Construction of Supported Housing – protected dwelling, halfway dwelling;the house with daily care.

In this part, concrete realizations from the cities of Brno, Chrudim, Písek, Planá nad Lužnicí, Strakonice, and Týn nad Vltavou are presented.

The realization examples of the following programme will be found in the third part of the publication:

• Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure

In this part, concrete realizations from the cities of Kdyn�, Kralupy nad Vltavou, and Velké Mezi�í�í are presented.

Apart from the three major parts of the publication, a schematic map of the Czech Republic presenting localizations of the cities dealt with has been included into the introduction. Two annexes have been enclosed at the end of the publication. The annex No. 1 brings the unabridged wording of the programmes and Decrees of the Government applied. The Annex No. 2 contains a table giving the names of elaborators of documentation, photographic documentation and of other specifying information.

The aim of this publication is to document, in the extent as large as possible, the various projects and documentations in stages from the panel-building settlement regeneration

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project, through the rental housing building project up to the reconstruction of one structure and/or dwelling, and therefore different examples have been included, as applied to their contents and extent. All examples given in the publication include the so-called title page of each city with identification data – municipality and region project title, and according to the type of action also the other basic data – financial costs, action description, for smaller structures also the building technology, data on area, space and capacity, provision of social services, architectonic, disposition and technical solutions, and similar.

In conclusion, it can be said that, by the edition of the publication, not only the results of the function of the Ministry for Regional Development or documentation activities of the Institute for Spatial Development in Brno, but also the active approach both professionals among designers and State administrative officers have been presented, aimed at providing good housing level for all groups of inhabitants. The publication’s contribution is, among others, also better information about disposal of State financial funds for the benefit of the Czech Republic citizens.

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Schematic map of the Czech Republic presenting the localizations of the cities dealt with

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CHAPTER 1

PROGRAMME OF REGENERATION OF PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENTS

PROGRAMME OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR REPAIR OF DEFECTS OF PREFABRICATED PANEL BUILDINGS (NECESSARY REPAIRS OR EMERGENCY

WORK)

“PANEL PROGRAMME“– REPAIR, MODERNIZATION, AND REGENERATION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL BUILDINGS

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PROGRAMME OF REGENERATION OF PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENTS

Programme of regeneration of panel-building settlements represents a long-term process aiming at social, economic, town planning, architectural and technical valorisation of settlements. The regeneration results in the transformation of housing estates into multi-purpose territorial units comparable with classical urban (housing) development.

The most frequently occurring housing estates problems are monofunctionality, technical defects, unsatisfactory planning of calmed traffic, non-conception formation and insufficient maintenance of open areas, insufficient street furnishing, outward appearance of houses; when the housing estate is situated in close neighbourhood of original (old) urban development, the continuation of the architectural and town planning elements of the housing estate in connection with the community structure has not yet been planned to final stage; insufficient equipment with services and facilities was deepened at present in many cases due to changes in ownership relations.

The gravity of individual problems is connected with the building time of the housing estate, with the housing estate dimension, with the size of the city a part of which is represented by the housing estate, with housing estate localisation within the city framework. The above problems are the consequences of realization of quantities of prefabricated houses “compensated” by lower quality of technology, architecture and town planning. Problems were turning deeper due to permanent maintenance insufficiency.

For valorising the housing estate areas so that they could become adequate municipality parts it is necessary to approach the solution of their problems in the complex manner. Taking into consideration large housing estate areas, large quantity of accumulated problems and demanding character of their solution from the point of view of economy, the regeneration is a long-term process. Only the global approach will guarantee the solution of problems in their time sequence, and will ensure effective spending of financial means. An unavoidable precondition for this process to be realized is the integration of Government, municipality and private investments.

The Government Regulation No. 494/2000 Coll. of December 18th, 2000, determined the conditions for the disbursement of Government subsidies for regeneration of panel-building settlements. The Government Regulation unambiguously defines the modifications, for which the subsidies from the regeneration programme can be obtained, and stipulates the conditions and procedure for obtaining the subsidy. The procedure of regeneration project elaboration as well as project prerequisites contents form the annex to the Government Regulation.

Subsidy according to the Government Regulation No. 494/2000 Coll. can be obtained for:

1. improvement of technical and transport infrastructures including parking places, measurements for flood prevention and rebuilding the settlement boiler rooms;

2. arrangements to embellish the appearance of housing estate, and to improve the quality of everyday life in it, among others, to establish playgrounds for children with equipment, to landscape, and to build public recreation areas;

3. elaboration of regulatory plan for the whole housing estate area, or for its part. The regulatory plan enables to determine, to relatively large extent, the regulation of modifications proposed in the housing estate, as a binding item.

Subsidies based on this programme are not aimed at repairing, modernization or warming up of dwelling houses and at building and rebuilding the objects of public facilities, either.

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The subsidy within the programme of regeneration of panel-building settlements can be disbursed to a municipality:

1. the local plan of which has been approved; 2. the settlement regeneration project of which has been approved by municipality council; 3. the planning permission and/or building permit of which is valid for modifications being the

subject of the application for subsidy; 4. which takes part, at least with 30 %, in financing the chosen arrangement for that the

grant is applied; 5. which submits, on the form of the Ministry for Regional Development, a written application

to the region.

PROGRAMME OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR REPAIR OF DEFECTSOF PREFABRICATED PANEL BUILDINGS(NECESSARY REPAIRS OR EMERGENCY WORK)

The objective of the programme is to assist owners of apartment buildings and dwellings constructed with the prefabricated panel technologies realized during 1950 to 1990.

Beneficiaries of the subsidy will be owners of apartment buildings and dwellings, i.e. municipalities, housing cooperatives, and legal entities.

The subject of the subsidy are necessary repairs or emergency work pursuant to the Construction Act, as amended, substantiated by an order of the applicable construction authority. An order of a construction authority must be issued due to the necessity to repair a defect or a failure in respect of which a subsidy can be disbursed under this programme. The subsidy can be disbursed for repair of a defect or a serious static failure of load-bearing structures, such as foundations, load-bearing walls, staircases, balconies (including replacement of balconies), loggias, terraces, ceilings, and roofs, and a serious design or function flaw of outer parts of a building (non-load-bearing peripheral walls and their parts, railings, attics, decorative elements) which pose an immediate threat to the stability of a building or its part or safety and health of persons.

No subsidy will be disbursed for work of investment nature (valorization), repair or replacement of doors, windows, internal non-load-bearing structures, and technical equipment, repair of structures which do not form a whole with an apartment building (outside terraces beyond the ground plan of a building not having the function of entrance area, supporting walls, drains, etc.), repair of parts of structures created by vertical or horizontal addition or reconstruction completed after 1990, and repair of structure for which financial assistance from the state budget has been paid after the year 1990.

The programme subsidy has the form of direct financial assistance. The subsidy can be used only to pay for costs expended for the type of repairs specified in this document.

“PANEL PROGRAMME“ – REPAIR, MODERNIZATION, AND REGENERATION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL BUILDINGS

One of the major problems of a substantial part of the existing dwelling stock is its dilapidated condition caused by the under-estimation of regular maintenance. As a consequence of putting of the necessary repairs, many residential building construction elements show serious defects resulting in their utility characteristics deterioration, increased operational costs and more and more often also in their decreased functional safety. In addition,

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buildings performed by using the prefabricated-panel technology show, as a rule, a considerable heat energy dissipation, the consequence of which are relatively high heating costs.This programme is aimed at facilitating the financing of comprehensive regeneration of housing buildings performed by using the prefabricated-panel technology, including the enhancement of their thermo-technical properties.

The programme includes three basic instruments of financial support: 1. government interest subsidy; 2. bank guarantee for the loan; 3. professional technical assistance.

The conditions are stipulated by the Government Regulation No. 299/2001 Coll. of 25 July 2001 on the use of money from the State Housing Development Fund to pay for a portion of interest on loans provided by banks to organisations and individuals for repair, modernization, and regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings.

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SELECTED EXAMPLES

HAV�OV

OSTRAVA

PARDUBICE

SVITAVY

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Panel-building settlement Šumbark IIin Haví�ov

Municipality: Statutory City of Haví�ov Svornosti No. 2, 736 01 Haví�ov

Region: Moravskoslezský (Moravian-Silesian)

Project: Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark II, Haví�ov

Programme: Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements

Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work)

“Panel Programme“ – Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel buildings

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Panel-building settlement Šumbark II in Haví�ov

BASIC DATA

• Name of the municipality: Haví�ov• Number of inhabitants: 87,021 • Number of dwellings in the municipality: 33,487 • Name of the settlement: Šumbark II • Number of inhabitants / dwellings in the settlement: 5,967 / 2,210 • Settlement age: 1980s • Settlement location within the municipality: distant from the centre

REGENERATION OF THE PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENT ŠUMBARK II IN HAVÍ�OV

Financial expenses in the year 2002:

• Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 7, 957, 000

Project description:

The city of Haví�ov was founded, in the early fifties of the past century, “on green field” in order to ensure the housing for labour force within the region of Ostrava and Karviná. The settlement Šumbark II represents a locality in which the weaknesses of panel-building settlements are expressed in the most pronounced way. Šumbark II is the last competed settlement in Haví�ov.The project of regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark II has been elaborated in parallel with the regulatory plan which facilitates the most possible integration of proposed modifications and the settlement regeneration process into the binding part of regulatory plan so that a complex regeneration would be ensured. According to the time schedule and financial balance-sheet, the proposed modifications of public areas and open grounds, the building and modification of transport and technical infrastructure has to be completed to the year 2010 at the latest. In addition to these modifications, the adaptation, modernization and reconstruction of prefabricated-panel buildings and the building up of other utilities (underground garage, leisure facilities, etc.) have been designed. The second stage of the regeneration which links up directly with the first stage realized in 2001 will enhance the amenities and the settlement service and environment.

Modifications carried out within the framework of the second stage in 2002: ��VZ 32 – park Orlí street and U1 – residential streets Konzumní + Orlí:

The area to be built up is situated along the streets Orlí and Konzumní; the Orlí being in the centre of the area. The modifications are linked up with the housing block areas Nos. 28 and 29 regenerated in 2001. The building work includes the reconstruction of walks and roadways in form of “residential streets”, the building of the park Orlí, reconstruction of public lighting and street furniture. Component parts of the building work are also the necessary diversions and modifications of utility networks and distribution lines and the general reconstruction of green areas. The redevelopment area is outlined as a “residential zone” with an assumed mixed motor- vehicle, pedestrian and cycling traffic. The thoroughfare streets are designed at one height level and with the speed limitation. The demarcation of the vehicle traffic area will be made, first of all, visually by means of surface differentiation and by physical barriers.

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark, Haví�ov, IInd stage Park Orlí – VZ 32. U1 Konzumní – Orlí streets, site plan

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← Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark, Haví�ov, IInd stage Park Orlí – VZ 32. U1 Konzumní – Orlí streets, the legend to the site plan

Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark, Haví�ov, IInd stage Perspective sketch

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark, Haví�ov, IInd stage Fragment of the pavement joints cut

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The thoroughfare streets before the regenerationThoroughfare streets after the realized modification

Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark, Haví�ov, IInd stage Reconstruction of walkways and thoroughfares in the form of “residential streets”

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Panel-building settlement Šumbark II in Haví�ov

REPAIRS, MODERNIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL BUILDINGS

Setting up the entrance into the residential building Jedlová street, No. 2/493 in Haví�ov – Šumbark

Basic data on the building:

The developer´s aim is to build up a new barrier-free entrance into the residential building in the Jedlová street, No. 2/493 in Haví�ov – Šumbark. The communication interconnection to the lifts and staircase will be achieved through building up of this entrance. The newly designed entrance will definitely replace the existing entrances in their obsolete technical and aesthetical state. The multidwelling building was erected in the framework of urban settlement Haví�ov – Šumbark. Now, it is a component part of the unfinished segment of the “New Šumbark” situated at the edge of the finished development. It has been erected by the construction system OP 1.11 as a fully assembled panel system of transverse and longitudinal bearing walls.The building has 13 above-ground storeys. In the first above-ground storey, there are non-residential premises including the common area, entrances and cellars. The higher above ground storeys are residential, each of them with 5 dwellings. There have been erected 60 housing units in total. Two lifts and a staircase create the middle part of the house disposition. At present, the building has two entrances (north and south). At the north façade, the height difference between entrance and terrain is levelled out by a forwarded concrete staircase.

Architectonic, constructional and technical solution:

The new entrance at the west façade will create the house dominant and as such, from the viewpoint of the house dwellers´ psychology, it will contribute to his integration into the small housing estate composed of three houses. The proposed variant of the entrance incl. the forwarded roofing is fully harmonious with the existing elevational massing of the residential building façade. The designer´s effort was to unite the massing of the existing entrances and of the new entrance with the colour accentuation of their function. Together with the new entrance, also the building of the new entrance hall with post boxes, repair of existing entrances at the south and north façades, maintenance of the external forwarded staircase, relocation of existing cellar boxes to newly built-up spaces, liquidation of the external entrance into the non-residential premises, modification of the existing south façade entrance hall (this will be used only for non-residential premises) will be performed.

− In the enclosure and internal panels, holes will be cut out for the purpose of setting of the glazed double (external and internal) entrance doors.

− The main entrance will be protected by a forwarded light steel roofing imbedded in the enclosure panels.

− The entrance part (parterre) will be tiled by the sintered ceramics tile covering. − The exchange of cellar metal windows for plastic ones will be carried out as

a omponent part of setting up the entrance. − The space under the existing staircase will be closed; the concrete steps will be tiled

by ceramics tile covering. The connection of the new entrance to the new walkways and to the parking place is planned within a separate project of urban roads and skinned areas.

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Contract time, contract date and completion date: 01/2004, 04/2004.

Analogously, the new barrier-free entrances into the houses Jedlová, No. 4/493 and Jedlová, No. 6/495 will be built up. These two houses with Jedlová, No. 2/493 form a complex of three tower type dwelling houses with common area within them. External works on the area within the blocks, the purpose of which is to complement the missing elements of the settlement and to strengthen its residential function through an overall betterment of the parterre quality, are integrated in the 3rd stage of the project of regeneration of the panel-building settlement Šumbark II in Haví�ov, with the assumed realization in the year 2004.

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The ground floor façade before repair The ground floor façade after repair

The panel-building settlement Šumbark II in Haví�ovThe new entrance into the residential house in Jedlová street, No. 2/493

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The panel-building settlement Šumbark II in Haví�ov The new entrance into the residential house in Jedlová street, No. 2/493

Interior

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Panel-building settlement Fifejdy Iin Ostrava

Municipality: Statutory City of Ostrava Prokešovo nám�stí No. 8, 729 30 Ostrava

City District: Mariánské Hory and Hulváky

Region: Moravskoslezský (Moravian-Silesian)

Project: Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Fifejdy I, Ostrava

Programme: Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements

Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work)

“Panel Programme“– Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel Buildings

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Panel-building settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava

BASIC DATA

• Name of the municipality: Ostrava • Number of inhabitants in the municipality: 319,162 • Number of dwellings in the municipality: 128,573 • Name of the settlement: Fifejdy I • Number of inhabitants / dwellings in the settlement: 3,050 / 1,292 • Settlement age: 1967 - 1973 • Settlement location within the municipality: at a distance of 2,5 km from the centre, good transport connection to the centre

REGENERATION OF THE PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENT FIFEJDY I IN OSTRAVA

Financial expenses in the year 2002:

• Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 8,222,000

Project description:

The major goal and purpose of the regeneration of the settlement Fifejdy I in the city district Mariánské Hory, Ostrava, is to ensure not only a comprehensive improvement of residential environment, but, above all, a general reconstruction of residential houses owned by the municipality, with the aim to achieve a housing area of appropriate quality. Main motives are: as to the land use: “Fifejdy I – a settlement in green”; as to the transportation: a barrier-free settlement with particular focus on the movement of pedestrians and on non-motorized traffic”; as to the urban space aesthetization: “a settlement with inimitable identity of its own”. All proposed modifications are divided into 4 stages which are based both on the importance of individual problems of the settlement to be dealt with and on the physical realization which is assumed for the time period 2002 – 2005. The point is, above all, the modification and construction of ground communications and parking lots, walkways and bicycle trails, the maintenance and planting of green, the complementation of street furniture and public lighting, as well as repairing the existing and constructing the new children’s playgrounds and sports grounds. New football pitch of elementary standard, climbing rock, U ramp, experience playground for children, etc., are planned to be built.

Modifications realized during the 1st stage in the year 2002:

��The 1st stage includes modifications realized in the south-west part of the settlement, where, in addition to residential houses, the elementary school is located. On a part of fallow land owned by the school, a football pitch, skateboard playground and other suchlike sports grounds have been built which corresponds to the settlement population demographic structure with a remarkable share of young people. The residential buildings surroundings, i.e. green areas, walkways, lighting, street furniture and children´s playgrounds equipment, were modified. Furthermore, the reconstruction and new construction of ground communications, walkways and bicycle trails, and parking places was made. A part of the existing communication in the Sgt. Gucman Street and in the Gen. Hruška Street was converted into a calmed residential zone.

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Municipal plan of the City of Ostrava – City District Mariánské Hory and Hulváky Situation detail

Municipal plan of the City of Ostrava – City District Mariánské Hory and Hulváky Situation legend

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Project of the regeneration of the settlement Fifejdy I in OstravaStages of realization in the years 2002 – 2005

Regeneration of public areas within the settlement Fifejdy I in OstravaLayout of static transportation in chosen localities; urbanistic detail

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Regeneration of public areas within the settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava Land use analysis

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← Legend to the land use analysis Legend to the land use draft →Regeneration of public areas within the settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava

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Regeneration of public areas within the settlement Fifejdy I in OstravaLand use draft

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Surroundings of residential houses

Chidren´s playground

Communications and parking place Central park

The settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava The state of public areas before the modifications proposed within the framework of the settlement

regeneration, after the reconstruction of residential houses

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The settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava Reconstruction and construction of new communications and parking places

The settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava The skateboard playground and climbing rock, newly built on a part of fallow land owned by the

school

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Panel-building settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava REPAIRS, MODERNIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL

BUILDINGS

Basic data on the building; existing state:

Repair and modernization of eleven-storey apartment buildings constructed using the construction system VM.OS. The houses are cellared, the cellar being semi-flushed under the grounds. The buildings are roofed over by a flat single envelope, with dewatering of the roof by internal pipework. The assembled enclosing shell is finished by the gypsum-cement combed plaster and the spacers between windows are finished by mosaic facing.

Realized modifications:

1. Thermal insulation of the above-ground storeys enclosing shell including the new façade, thermal insulation of the cellar ceiling, thermal insulation of the entrance hall ceiling on the 1st above-ground storey;

2. Treatment and repair of cracks in the enclosure façade panels by the system Helifix; 3. New tile covering of the socle at the entrance;4. New sheet-metal lining of apron walls, doors, mouldings, offsets, girders and flying

parapets inclusive of their painting;5. Exchange of windows and balcony doors on above-ground storeys and exchange of

cellar windows for new ones made of plastic; 6. Exchange of the entrance wall on the 1st above-ground storey for a new one with

aluminium frames and thermal barrier;7. New outside pavement;8. New eaves sidewalk (pavement) around the whole building;9. New roof;10. Repair of balconies and interior balconies;11. Ground planning (formation) in the area of exterior stairs, with the ground slope in the

direction from the house outwards, new pram ramp, new handrail and new covering of the steps;

12. Setting up a new house dry piping connecting box (for the connection of a fire brigade water tank in case of emergency).

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Panel-building settlement Fifejdy I in Ostrava Appearance of prefabricated-panel houses after realized modifications

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Panel-building settlement Polabiny, situated on the Right Bank of the Elbe in Pardubice,

city parts Sever and Stava�ovMunicipality: Statutory city of Pardubice Pernštýnské nám. 1, 530 21 Pardubice

Region: Pardubický (of Pardubice)

Project: Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Polabiny, situated on the Right Bank of the Elbe, Pardubice, city parts Sever and Stava�ov

Programme: Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements

Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work)

„Panel“ Programme – Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel Buildings

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Panel-building settlement Polabiny, situated on the Right Bank of the Elbe in Pardubice,

city parts Sever and Stava�ovBASIC DATA

• Name of the municipality: Pardubice • Number of inhabitants in the municipality: 91,245 • Number of dwellings in the municipality: 35,867 • Number of panel building settlements

in the municipality: 3 • Number of dwellings in the municipality: 12,591 • Name of the settlement: Pravý b�eh Labe (Right Bank of the Elbe), a complex of housing estates • Number of inhabitants/dwellings in the settlement: 21,578 / 7,992 • Settlement age: 1960s – 1990s • Settlement location within the municipality: remarkably distant from the centre

REGENERATION OF PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENT ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE ELBE IN PARDUBICE

Financial expenses in the year 2002:

• Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 11,795,000

Project description:

The regeneration programme collects the basic data, formulates the solution problems and determines gradual steps, how to achieve the goals. In the meanwhile, an open material is concerned which is being completed each year. At present, the timetable of modifications has been elaborated up to 2010.Major problems are as follows: recreation, calmed transport, rearrangement of public areas, monofunctionality of settlements, modifications of facades and penthouses of residential buildings.

Modifications carried out within the framework of the IInd complex of actions in 2002:

��Brožíkova street Regeneration of junctions (short cuts) between local roads and walkways, building stopover and parking places, regeneration and completion of public lighting, arrangement of public areas including regeneration of public green areas, connected with the planting of full-grown trees, repairing existing children's playgrounds with sandboxes, climbing structures, and park relaxation areas.

��Ohrazenická – Mladých streets The action is directly linked with the centre of the Polabiny 1 (sometimes called the second stage of the centre reconstruction) which has been regenerated on behalf of the subsidy from the State Budget in 2001 within the first stage of the complex of actions.

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Analogous modifications as in the Brožíkova street are concerned, see the foregoing paragraph.

��Area within the blocks Varšavská – Nová streets The aim of the regeneration of the area within the blocks is improving its aesthetic and recreation functions: regeneration of children’ playgrounds, walkways, public lighting and green areas.

��Alfa Centre + Val�íkova street Modification of the area in front of the entrance into the Children’ and Youth’s Centre Alfa, building of turning point for private cars, reconstruction of the Val�íkova street, and of the areas in front of both neighbouring houses. The action was finished only in 2003.

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in Pardubice D14 – area within the blocks Varšavská – Nová – situation

Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in Pardubice D14 – area within the blocks Varšavská – Nová – prospective sketch

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in Pardubice D04 – Ohrazenická street – situation

Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in Pardubice, IInd stage D04 – Ohrazenická street – prospective sketch

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in PardubiceAppearance of the settlement before modification

Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in PardubiceAppearance of the settlement after modification

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Situation before modification Situation after modification Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in Pardubice

Complex of actions

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Panel-building settlement Polabiny, situated on the Right Bank of the Elbe in Pardubice, city

parts Sever and Stava�ov

REPAIRS, MODERNIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL BUILDINGS

Examples of regeneration of prefabricated panel buildings:

Land-registry number

Street Construction system

Owner (developer)

Year

Total price (in

thousandsof CZK)

Supportfrom the

StateBudget (in thousands

of CZK)

Note

330-2 Kpt. Bartoše HK-65 city 2001 15 638 4 128 - Static regeneration of horizontal panels of loggie, change of loggie guard-rails

- Physical-chemical regeneration of enclosing shell

- Repair and warming up of roof envelope - Warming up of enclosing shell - Repair of windows and loggia doors - the other regeneration interventions

379 B�lehradská HK-65 city 1999 14 470 2 500 - Regeneration of enclosing shell, static anchoring of shield panels

- Warming up of enclosing shell - Embedding of glass walls in the loggie (so-

called passive solar systems) - Repair of windows and loggia doors - Change of the entrance wall - Reconstruction of guard-rails at the back

staircase (north façade) - Reconstruction of the central heating - The other regeneration interventions (the highest-rise prefabricated panel building in Pardubice - the 19th floor, height 55 m without superstructure)

380-3 Gagarinova HK-65 city 2001 16 487 4 584 - Static regeneration of horizontal loggie panels, change of loggie guard-rails

- Physical-chemical regeneration of enclosing shell

- Repair and warming up of roof envelope - Warming of enclosing shell - Repair of windows and loggia doors - The other regeneration interventions

409-10 Kpt. Bartoše HK-65 StateHousing Co-

operative Družba

(Friendship)

2002 21 827 8 731 - Static security and verification of the situation of elements

- Regeneration of corrosion failures with static character

- Regeneration o and surface protection of enclosing shell (including warming up)

- Regeneration of hydro-insulation roof assembly with subsequent works (including warming up)

- Regeneration and surface treatment of the loggie

- Repair of continuing and complementary structures

- Change of window structures of the western façade in residential floors

(financed on behalf of mortgage credit with State Budget subsidy for interests – PANEL)

433 Sedlá�kova HK-65 StateHousing Co-

operative Družba

(Friendship)

2003 11 000 3 994 - Static security and regeneration of enclosing shell (including warming up)

- Static security and repair of the loggie - Further continuing works (i.a., change of

windows and balcony doors) ((financed on behalf of mortgage credit with State Budget subsidy for interests – PANEL)

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Right Banks of the Elbe in PardubiceAppearance of prefabricated panel buildings before and after modification

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Panel-building settlementSvitavy – Lány in Svitavy

Municipality: City of Svitavy T.G. Masaryka street, No. 35, 568 11 Svitavy

Region: Pardubický (of Pardubice)

Project: Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Svitavy - Lány

Programme: Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements

Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary repairs or emergency work)

“Panel Programme“– Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel Buildings

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Panel-building settlement Svitavy – Lány in SvitavyBASIC DATA

• Name of the municipality: Svitavy • Number of inhabitants in the municipality: 17,796 • Number of dwellings in the municipality: 6,405 • Number of panel-housing settlements in the municipality: 3 • Number of panel dwellings in the municipality: 2,126 • Name of the settlement: Svitavy-Lány • Number of inhabitants / dwellings in the settlement: 2,703 / 942 • Settlement age: 1970s – 1980s • Settlement location within the municipality: at a foot-walk distance

from the centre • Settlement area: 11.55 ha

REGENERATION OF THE PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENT SVITAVY-LÁNY

Financial expenses in the year 2002:

• Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 5,500,000

Project description:

The design of the panel-housing settlement modification is divided into five stages which will be realized, step-by-step, in the time period 2002-2006. The explicit priority is the solution of calmed transport. Therefore, this was determined to be the major objective of the first realization stage of the regeneration, and in cooperation with it, also the problem of unsatisfactory access to the buildings in case of fire fighting vehicles intervention (securing the assembly area), and further on, strengthening the role of settlement green spaces within the framework of plantation accompanying the transport structures. During the following two stages other modifications of parking and pavements, building of new communication links, pavements and parking areas, completing the public lightning and green areas, ground planning of the community waste deposit. Final stages will be focused on children and sports playgrounds, recreation areas, modifications of public entrances into panel-building structures and complementary greenery.

Modifications realized within the framework of the 1st stage in 2002:

��Enlargement of existing areas and shift of existing pavements in the Svitavská street. ��Enlargement of existing pavements and relocation of waste deposit in the Svitavská

street.��Making the existing parking area passable through the parking area in the supermarket

neighbourhood, and relocation of the existing pavement. ��Enlargement of the existing parking area in the supermarket neighbourhood. ��Relocation of the existing communication, entrance from the Svitavská street in direction

to the Felberova street. On both sides of the relocation, perpendicular parking places.��Modification of the entrance to the block of flats in the Felberova street. Modification of

pavement, completion of green spaces. ��The communication in the Felberova street to be made one-way one, and delivery of

accessory parking places, enlargement of existing pavement.��A new parking area with 11 parking places in the Felberova street.

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Svitavy – municipal plan with marked planning area, Svitavy – LánySituation cut-out

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← Svitavy – municipal plan with marked planning area, Svitavy – LányLegend illustrating the situation

Regeneration of panel-building settlement Svitavy-LányLegend illustrating the complete project and the 1st stage

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement Svitavy – Lány Complex proposal

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Regeneration of panel-building settlement, Svitavy – Lány Parking and parking places – Ist stage

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Regeneration of panel-building settlement, Svitavy – Lány Reconstruction of pavements, communications and parking areas, building up of new parking places

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Panel-building settlement Svitavy – Lány in Svitavy

REPAIR, MODERNIZATION, AND REGENERATION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL DWELLING BUILDINGS

Renewal of high-rise buildings in the time period 1997 – 2003

The City of Svitavy and the Svitavy Housing Society:

The most frequent renewal interventions in high-rise buildings: 1. Repair and warming-up of the roof including the lift machine rooms 2. Warming up the opaque enclosing envelope 3. Warming up the ceilings of technical storey and entrance 4. Reconstruction of the loggie including the change of banisters, and glazing by walls 5. Repair and/or exchange of external opening elements – windows and the loggie 6. Exchange of entrance walls of the structure including the entrance area adaptation 7. Exchange of dwelling entrance doors and of those of technical storey against the fire-

resistant ones 8. Repair and/or exchange of technical safeguard of distributions in buildings 9. Repair of lifts including the regeneration of lift shafts

The approach to repairs took place after preceding constructional-technical examination analyzing all found defects, disorders and failures of the construction system HKS-70 and of the other ones, and recommending the extent of renovation intervention. Based on the project elaborated, the renewal of chosen structures was carried out individually.

COMPLEX APPROACH TO THE TERRITORIAL PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENT REGENERATION

The settlement localized in the land-registry area �ty�icet Lán� (Forty Fields)

In connection with the renewal of high-rise buildings in panel-building settlements, it is no less important to focus on the re-structuring of environment adjacent to the housing structures, as well. The strengthening and enlargement of parking places and pavements is understood as the area restructuring in this case together with building new communication connections, building and modification of playgrounds for children and sport playgrounds, recreation areas, intensification of green spaces and public lightening. The connection of the matter of high–rise buildings renewal and of restructuring the public areas was successfully carried out in the largest panel-building settlement on the territory of the city of Svitavy, in the settlement called “Lány”. A study was elaborated for the purpose of restructuring the public areas; there are proposed, in individual stages, solutions of the most pressing issues from the point of view of town planning, transport, recreation areas, and environment.Within the framework of realization of an investment work, it was necessary to coordinate the construction work so that the use of public space by the settlement inhabitants would be restricted to minimum. In spite of some problems solved within the frames of construction, no negative responses relating to the new regenerated settlement area were observed. In some cases, the citizens themselves entered into a discussion concerning the technical solution, and in two cases, their proposed solution was accepted. Even here, it could be observed that the citizens were interested in the formation of new environment in which they lived.

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Note:According to the experience obtained both in past and present years, the most effective instruments of the State policy oriented to the renewal and restructuring are Government subsidies, namely both direct subsidies, or as the case may be, specialized, disbursed to municipalities and the other subjects based on promulgated programmes, and indirect subsidies, lying in covering a part of interests of the credits trusted for the purpose of a given action.

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Regeneration of the panel-building settlement, Svitavy – Lány Repair, modernization, and regeneration of prefabricated-panel blocks of flats

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CHAPTER 2

PROGRAMME OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUPPORTED HOUSING – PROTECTED DWELLING, HALFWAY DWELLING, ENTRY-LEVEL DWELLING;

HOUSE WITH DAILY CARE

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PROGRAMME OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUPPORTED HOUSING

The objective of the programme is to provide support for construction of rental housing owned by municipalities and voluntary associations of municipalities for persons who are disadvantaged in access to housing not only due to their social situation, but also for other reasons based on which they have special housing needs. Such reasons include medical condition, age and the ensuing medical and social consequences, and unfavourable situations in people's lives which prevent them from finding adequate housing and pose the risk of social exclusion.

The supported housing is represented by dwellings which, as to their characteristics or services rendered, comply with the requests of target group of persons with special needs. Such a support has, in addition to the main objective which is the provision of adequate housing, also a preventive function as a barrier of social exclusion.

For the purposes of the Programme of Construction of Supported Housing, the following terms have the following meaning:

• a supported dwelling is a dwelling constructed with government subsidies disbursed under this programme,

• a protected dwelling is a supported dwelling in a special-purpose facility which is intended to satisfy housing needs of persons having special housing needs due to medical condition or old age; a protected dwelling must meet the technical conditions of a modifiable dwelling,

• a halfway dwelling is a supported dwelling intended for satisfying housing needs of persons who have special housing needs due to a disruptive lifestyle or a risk environment in which they live and are unable to resolve their unfavourable social situation without external help,

• an entry-level dwelling is a supported dwelling intended to satisfy housing needs of persons who do not have access housing despite using all existing instruments of social and housing support, but are able to lead independent lives, especially in respect of the obligations of a landlord/tenant relationship,

• construction - construction of an apartment building or a family home with two to three dwellings; a change of a structure which results in conversion or premises designated for a purpose other than housing into a dwelling, vertical addition, horizontal addition, or attic conversion if it results in construction of a new dwelling, modification of a dwelling aimed at creation of an entry-level dwelling,

• the acquisition price of a supported dwelling constructed with government subsidies is a price calculated in accordance with a special regulation as of the date the applicable certificate of completion takes effect.

The target group of persons with special housing needs is very differentiated. The basic differences among the target group persons and their needs are specified by four basic types of supported dwellings while the individual types of supported dwellings represent self-contained subsidy titles.

PROTECTED DWELLING

The objective of construction of protected dwellings is securing housing for and providing social services according to individual needs of persons who have special housing needs due to their medical condition or old age so as to prolong their self-sufficiency and independence.

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The target group are persons with reduced self-sufficiency due to a medical condition or old age. This applies especially senior citizens, persons suffering from a movement and orientation disorder, persons suffering from a mental disorder, persons having a long-term psychological problems, etc.

HALFWAY DWELLING

The objective of construction of halfway dwellings is securing housing for and providing services to persons who have a limited ability to lead a normal life due to reduced psychosocial skills, helping such persons overcome unfavourable social situations, helping such persons re-socialize, and preventing their social exclusion.

The target group are persons in an unfavourable social situation caused by a disruptive lifestyle or the risk environment in which they live and/or persons having an impaired ability to lead a normal life due to reduced psychosocial skills. This applies for example to persons who exit various institutions (children's homes, therapeutic communities, psychiatric facilities, shelters, reformatories, etc.) or persons living in non-functional families, socially excluded communities, etc.

ENTRY-LEVEL DWELLING

The objective of construction of entry-level dwellings is satisfying the housing needs of persons who are unable to find housing due to an unfavourable situation in their lives, while such persons are fully capable of leading an independent life, especially from the viewpoint of meeting the obligations arising from a landlord/tenant relationship.

The target group are persons unable to find housing due to an unfavourable situation affecting their life, even if all existing instruments of the social and housing policy are used. This applies for example to young persons exiting a children's home who lack a family background but demonstrate their ability to lead an independent life, persons who are threatened by social exclusion due to their ethnic origin, persons returning from a reformatory, persons who have undergone a re-socialization programme in a shelter or a halfway house, persons having the status of a refugee, foreign nationals who demonstrate Czech origin, etc.

HOUSE WITH DAILY CARE

The objective of construction of house with daily care for seniors is make conditions for high-quality and relevant living to persons with reduced self-sufficiency (want of personal care), especially for persons with retirement age. The persons with reduced self-sufficiency – they want assist in the areas of social services. Daily care services: personal hygiene, home delivery of meals and shopping, cleaning, guidance of clients, errands, simple nurse´s operations. Others services: personal hygiene centre, pearl (bubbling) baths, pedicure, hairdresser, masseur, washing and ironing, hire of helping/compensation tools, dining room, gym, common room and all. The houses concept could provide services to clients living in the houses with daily care for seniors as well as to the general public of seniors living elsewhere in the city.

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SELECTED EXAMPLES BRNO

CHRUDIM

PÍSEK

PLANÁ NAD LUŽNICÍ

STRAKONICE

TÝN NAD VLTAVOU

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Brno – Bohunice,Arménská street, No. 2 and 4

Municipality: Statutory city of Brno City district Brno – Bohunice, Dlouhá street, No. 3, 625 00 Brno

Region: Jihomoravský (South-Moravian)

Project: Construction of a house with daily care for seniors Arménská street, No. 2 and 4, Brno – Bohunice

Programme: Programme of Support for Construction of houses with daily care for seniors

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Brno – Bohunice, Arménská street, No. 2 and 4

HOUSE WITH DAILY CARE FOR SENIORS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING Building technology: Reconstruction of a former object of kindergarten, incl. the superstructure:• vertical constructions: - reinforced concrete skeleton, masonry Ytong and Porotherm • horizontal constructions: - reinforced concrete panels, profiles OK + sheets VSŽ • staircases: - reinforced concrete monolith, and a secondary one made of steel • roof: - double-envelope, steel frame • foundation construction: - plain concrete strip foundations, reinforced concrete footings

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 2 original storeys + 1 additional storey (superstructure)• number of dwellings: 30 housing units (thereof 6 barrier-free) • dwelling size category: 27 bachelor flats, 3 dwellings 2 + 1 • capacity: 33 persons • area covered by superstructure: 1,182 m2 • total floor (utility) area : 1,287 m2 (all dwellings) • floor (utility) area: 42.9 m2 (1 average dwelling) • enclosed volume: 9,378 m3

(superstructure + reconstruction + annex) • construction duration: 10.5 months

Financial expenditure: Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 15,000,000

Provided social services: Daily care services: personal hygiene, catering, cleaning, washing and ironing, guidance of clients, shopping and errands, simple nurse’s operations. In a daily care centre in the neighbouring object, there take place cultural and activation programmes, relaxation exercises, massages, and pedicure.

Architectonic, dispositional and technical solution: The construction of dwellings included into the house with daily care for seniors is solved partly as the reconstruction of the existing two-storey building of a kindergarten, with a superstructure over that building and with adjacent congruent building of the daily care centre.The ground floor of the building is accessible by a couple of entrances, and by the supplying one. The hall from which the access to other storeys is possible by means of staircase and bed lift, links up with the main entrance. The hall is neighbouring with a collectively used room - dining room and behind it, there are sanity installations, which open on the second entrance. This serves for facilitating the access to immobile inhabitants. On the ground floor, there are also a kitchen and rooms with technical equipment. In the other two storeys, there are, except the rooms for nursing staff and laundry linen stores, only dwellings.The heating is provided by the existing connection to central heating. Warm utility water is gained by means of electric reservoir water heaters fitted up in each housing unit.

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House with daily care for seniors in Brno – Bohunice

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House with daily care for seniors in Brno – Bohunice Plan view of the building

(plan view of the 1stt above-ground storey, scheme of the building, dwellings, collectively used rooms, existing daily care centre)

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House with daily care for seniors in Brno – Bohunice Cross section of the building

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Chrudim, Soukenická street, No. 158

Municipality: City of Chrudim Resselovo nám. 77, 537 16 Chrudim

Region: Pardubický (of Pardubice)

Project: Construction of a house with daily care for seniors Soukenická street, No. 158, Chrudim

Programme: Programme of Support for Construction of houses with daily care for seniors

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Chrudim, Soukenická street, No.158 HOUSE WITH DAILY CARE FOR SENIORS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

• vertical constructions: - system Velox (leave-in-place plate shuttering - Velox, reinforced concrete core)

• horizontal constructions: - system Velox • staircase: - monolithic reinforced concrete • roof: - nail-glued roof truss, roofing Bramac • foundation construction: - strip foundations

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 1 subterranean + 3 above-ground storeys • number of dwellings: 30 housing units (thereof 6 barrier-free) • dwelling size category: 1 + 1 • capacity: 32 persons • built area: 792 m2

• total floor (utility) area: 1,005 m2 (all dwellings) • floor (utility) area: 33.5 m2 (1 average dwelling) • enclosed volume: 9,780 m3

• construction duration: 12 months

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 22,500,000

Provided social services: Daily care services: personal hygiene, home delivery of meals and shopping, cleaning, guidance of clients, errands, simple nurse’s operations. Hinterland: personal hygiene centre, pearl (bubbling) baths, pedicure, hairdresser, masseur, washing and ironing, hire of helping/compensation tools, dining room. For activation programmes can be used: gym, common room (chapel, memory exercise, music therapy, coffee-bar, lectures, collective actions) and garden (concerts, manual work therapy, etc.) The house concept permits providing services to clients living in the house as well as to the general public of seniors living elsewhere in the city.

Architectonic, dispositional and technical solution: The building is outlined as a house with daily care of seniors with small-scale dwellings for seniors and disabled pensioners. Each of these parts of the building operates as a separate unit, the interconnection of which is made possible by their layout. Since the building is located in the historic part of the city, the designer has chosen appropriate expressive means in order to achieve a smooth blending of the building with its surroundings. A component part of the premises is also a small garden. All dwellings in the daily care serviced part of the house as well as further common spaces are barrier-free and equipped with a signalisation device for calling help in case of emergency. Prevailing part of the dwellings is designed for one person, 6 dwellings are for wheelchair users and 2 dwellings for couples. Each dwelling has a balcony which is used by the residents to a great extent. Individual dwellings are furnished with a kitchen unit and a built-in wardrobe, delivered as a component part of the structure. The heat is provided by a distance heating with independent calorifier room.

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The house with daily care for seniors in Chrudim Street view

The house with daily care for seniors in Chrudim Entrance area

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The house with daily care for seniors in Chrudim Plan view of the 1st above-ground storey

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The house with daily care for seniors in Chrudim Cross-section of the building

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Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364

Municipality City of Písek Velké nám�stí , No. 114, 397 19 Písek

Region: Jiho�eský (South-Bohemian)

Project: Construction of Supported Housing – entry-level dwellings Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364, Písek

Programme: Programme of Construction of Supported Housing

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Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364

ENTRY-LEVEL DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

Reconstruction of the existing building: • vertical constructions: - brickwork complemented by porous concrete blocks • horizontal constructions: - existing: predominantly wooden beams new: steel beams and inlay hourdis• staircase: - monolithic reinforced concrete • roof: - existing: saddle roof with tile cladding, complemented by new dormers (saddle dormers with hipped end)

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 1st above-ground storey (dwelling No. 3), 2nd above- ground storey (dwelling No. 6) • number of dwellings: 2 housing units • dwelling size category: dwelling No. 3, total utility area 53.00 m2

dwelling No. 6, total utility area 54.00 m2

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 500,000

Architectonic, dispositional, and technical solution:

The entry-level dwellings, No. 3 with total utility area 53 m2 and No. 6 with total utility area 54 m2, are located in the 1st and 2nd above-ground storeys of the reconstructed house. This was originally used as a house with daily care for seniors, with 12 bachelor flats in three floors without lift. In addition to two entry-level dwellings, there are two dwellings (attics) for low income persons, two dwellings 2 + 1 and four bachelor flats at present. The two-room dwellings were offered as starting dwellings for young families. The bachelor flats serve for accommodation of children leaving the children´s home and of other disabled individuals (particularly those with psychiatric diagnosis on account of which they cannot live in a house with daily care).

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The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364 Street view in the time of realization

The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364 Situation

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The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364 Plan view of the 1st above-ground storey, dwelling No. 6

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The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No.1364 Cross-section of the building

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The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje, No. 1364 Interior

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The entry-level dwellings – Písek, Náb�eží 1. máje , No. 1364 Interior

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Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkem

Municipality: City of Planá nad Lužnicí Zákostelní street, No. 720, 391 11 Planá nad Lužnicí

Region: Jiho�eský (South-Bohemian)

Project: Construction of Supported Housing – protected dwellings; Housing settlement Za Farským rybníkem in Planá nad Lužnicí

Programme: Programme of Construction of Supported Housing

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Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkem

PROTECTED DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

• foundations: - bored piles and reinforced concrete grillage • vertical constructions: - brick walls in the system Porotherm • horizontal constructions: - filigreed panels with topping • staircase: - reinforced concrete with topped steps • roof: - principal of nailed trusses, roof pitch 17°, asphalt shingle Tegola roof cover

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 5 above-ground storeys • number of dwellings: 40 housing units (thereof 26 special purpose dwellings) • dwelling size category: category 2 + 1: 18 dwellings

(2x 52.05m2 + 16x 59.62m2);category 1+ 1: 8 dwellings (8x 50.17m2)

• built area: 767 m2

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: only for 13 housing units CZK 10,400,000

Architectonic, dispositional and technical solution:

The residential building includes five storeys, basementless (without cellar), consisting of three sections built in the ribbon pattern. In the 1st section there are 14 normal dwellings, and in the 2nd and 3rd sections, there are special purpose dwellings As far as the 2nd and 3rd

sections are concerned, each of them includes 13 dwellings, i.e., 26 special purpose dwellings altogether.In the ground floor (i.e., 1st above-ground storey), there are the entrance and collective use rooms, dwellings, cellar boxes, and technical hinterland. The massage room is localized in the 2nd section. The dwellings are localized in other four above-ground storeys (2nd to 5th

one). The dwellings are complemented by loggie and balconies.Each section has 2 barrier-free entrances on the ground floor – one from the area inside the block, another from peripheral pavement; also the lift entrance is barrier-free. Each section includes an individual lift and staircase. All dwellings localized in the 2nd and 3rd sections have been designed according to the decree No. 369/2001 Coll., on general technical requirements ensuring access for and use of buildings by the persons suffering from movement and orientation disorders. The equipment of dwellings with helping tools for handicapped persons will be completed on the basis of the individual users´ specific requirements.

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The construction of the residential ensemble is situated near the municipality centre, it links with the Farský rybník (Parson´s Pool) in the northwest part, and an internal city communication goes along the east side.

The area development took place in two stages. A row-house with 37 housing units was realized in the 1st stage, another row-house with 40 housing units (thereof 26 special purpose dwellings) in the 2nd one. The residential ensemble has been conceived as without breezeway, access only for service transport. With regard to the need of building satisfactory parking areas, the areas inside the block have been planned as interlocking paver walkways to be used both by pedestrians and vehicles with the possibility of parking; parking areas have been marked in colours. In the future, the parterre among blocks will be completed by parking lots, children’ playgrounds and green spaces. The green has been designed so that the dwellings in the ground floor were protected against the pavements and communications.

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí Views of unfinished building

Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkem

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkemParterre of the residential ensemble

Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkemView of the residential ensemble over the Farský rybník – in foreground the residential house realized

during the 1st stage

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkem Situation of the building

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkemPlan view of a typical storey

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkemViews

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Protected dwellings in Planá nad Lužnicí, Za rybníkem Cross-section A – A

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Strakonice – Locality Jezárka

Municipality: City of Strakonice Velké nám�stí, No. 2, 386 01 Strakonice

Region: Jiho�eský (South-Bohemian)

Project: Construction of a house with daily care for seniors, Locality Jezárka, Strakonice

Programme: Programme of support for construction of houses with daily care for seniors

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Strakonice – Locality Jezárka HOUSE WITH DAILY CARE FOR SENIORS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

• vertical constructions: - masonry brick, system Porotherm • horizontal constructions: - monolithic reinforced concrete• staircase: - monolithic reinforced concrete, prefabricated steps • roof: - combined sloping and flat; the cover of the sloping roof is titanium-zinc; flat parts are covered by pavement or rubble soakaway

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 4 above-ground storeys • number of dwellings: 54 housing units (thereof 9 barrier-free) • dwelling size category: category bachelor flat: 40 dwellings 28 m2 + 4 barrier-

free 34 m2

category 1 + 1: 5 dwellings 42 m2, 5 barrier-free 49 m2

• built area: 997 m2

• total floor (utility) area: 3,052 m2

• enclosed volume: 13,331 m3

• construction duration: 22 months

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget was provided via the State Housing Development Fund according to the Government decree No. 481/2000 Coll.Investment subsidy: CZK 32,400,000

Provided social services:

By means of daily care services simple nurse’s operations, personal hygiene, catering, household maintenance work, washing and ironing and hygiene centre services (massages, pedicure) are provided in two-shift operation to the clients who can also take part in different club and cultural leisure time activities.

Architectonic, dispositional and technical solution:

The newly developed housing estate Jezárka is located in the north-west part of the city and is linking up with the high quality neighbourhood subunit from the fifties of the last century. In a quite untraditional way, the community facilities (elementary school, boarding house and old people´s home and a house with daily care) have been built prior to the construction of dwelling houses.The development of the house with daily care “on a green field” enabled a certain freedom in searching for its architectonic expression. The loosened configuration of individualized middle-height dwelling sections represent a variant of characteristic, regional, naturally

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extended city development in its original scale. In spite of the absolutely contemporary conception of the house, rather more traditional building forms and elements were chosen with regard to the inhabitants.Superior housing is being enriched by common and collective rooms and a residential garden. The dwellings are equipped by uniform kitchens and wardrobes with elements facilitating their usage by older and less mobile people. Some dwellings are barrier-free. The dwellings as well as common rooms are complemented by balconies, interior balconies and terraces oriented towards sunny cardinal points and into the garden. The dining room and winter garden with a roof terrace are being utilized for common usage and residential purposes. In the corridors on the floors, there are quiet places for common sitting-down. The daily care work station, the dining room entrance and the entrance into the residential part of the house are oriented into the entrance hall.

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The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka View

The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka View from the garden

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The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka Interiors

The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka Residential garden, loose furniture

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The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka Plan view of the entrance storey

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The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka Plan view of the attic with dwellings for invalids

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The house with daily care for seniors Strakonice – locality Jezárka Views and longitudinal profile of the building

Entrance forefront – brick lining, tinted structural plaster, wooden windows, natural dark grey iron coloured door locking devices, roof covered by titanium-zinc plate.

Side face (garden face) – dwellings outfitted with terraces, balconies or interior balconies. The house is decreasing southwards into the garden. Ahead of common rooms, there are placed residential roof terraces.

Longitudinal profile – dwellings accessible from the common corridor.

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Týn nad Vltavou,Ke Hradu street, No. 109

Municipality City of Týn nad Vltavou Nám�stí míru No. 2, 375 01 Týn nad Vltavou

Region: Jiho�eský (South-Bohemian)

Project: Construction of supported housing – protected dwellings Ke Hradu street No. 109, Týn nad Vltavou

Programme: Programme of Construction of Supported Housing

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Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No.109

PROTECTED DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

Reconstruction of the existing building which was rebuilt to a school in 1975: • vertical constructions: - brickwork • horizontal constructions: - vault (1st above-ground storey), wooden beams with reed lathing plastering (2nd and 3rd above-ground storeys), reinforced concrete (reconstructed parts)• staircase: - existing, concrete • roof: - hipped, with tile cladding

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 3 storeys + 1 superstructure, thereof 1 storey with protected dwellings • number of dwellings: 3 housing units (small-scale protected dwellings) • dwelling size category: dwelling 1: bachelor flat, total utility area 31.07 m2

dwelling 2: 2 + 1, total utility area 46.19 m2

dwelling 3: bachelor flat, total utility area 25.50 m2

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 2,400,000

Architectonic, dispositional, and technical solution:

The last use of the building was its function as a special school and is not listed, but is situated within the urban conservation area near the centre. Circa 4 years ago, the building façade was repaired, and the exchange of roof covering was carried out.

The proposed building adaptations represent the interior dispositional modification of original rooms of the former school and building-in into the existing attic space of the building. Neither the plan extension nor the raising of the existing building will take place. The existing fenestration will be maintained.The lift will be built to ensure the barrier-free access to the 2nd and 3rd above-ground storeys.

Further on, interior pipeline distribution of sanitary technology, central heating and interior wiring will be exchanged and completed. The heating and warm water delivery will be ensured by taking use of the city thermofication system, namely hot-water pipeline network.The building will be used by a general interest organization Domov sv. Anežky (Home of St. Agnes) and a part of activities of the existing Home will be transferred there; it serves as a centre of daily care, protected ceramic workshop and presentation of products, as a classroom, studio of artetherapy, office, small-scale protected dwellings for persons with light mental or physical disorders as well as an assistance room for helper of protected dwellings. The operation will be barrier-free.

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Construction and investment plan of the building:

Part A: modifications of the 1st and 2nd above-ground storeys – operation of the ceramics workshop and selling gallery, education; Part B: modifications of the 3rd above-ground storey – protected dwelling and the lift from the 1st above-ground storey

(the existing attic of the building’s garden wing was adapted into laundry and drying house within the framework of the disposition of the 3rd above-ground storey – room No. 309);

Part C: modifications of the 4th above-ground storey – dwelling and assistance room (it will be used by a helper of protected dwelling who will be helping, approximately from 15 to 22 hours and during 1 to 2 hours in the morning, the users of protected dwellings).

The investor for the parts A and C will be the Home of St. Agnes, and, of the part B, the city of Týn nad Vltavou.

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Protected dwellings in Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No. 109 Existing situation – views and interior

Protected dwellings in Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No. 109 Situation plan

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Protected dwellings in Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No. 109 Plan view of the 3rd above-ground storey

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Protected dwellings in Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No. 109 Cross-section

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Protected dwellings in Týn nad Vltavou, Ke Hradu street, No. 109 New situation in the interior

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CHAPTER 3

PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RENTAL HOUSING AND TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RENTAL HOUSING AND TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure defines conditions for disbursement of funds for construction of rental housing to groups of the population in a specific income bracket and for construction of technical infrastructure used in subsequent construction of apartment buildings and family homes. The programme outlines the conditions for acceptance of new applications from municipalities for projects which must begin by the end of the year 2004. The objective of the programme in respect of Subsidy Title No. 1 is providing support for construction of rental housing owned by municipalities and intended for persons in a specific income bracket.The objective of the programme in respect of Subsidy Title No. 2 is providing support for construction of technical infrastructure with the aim of increasing the availability of land ready for subsequent construction of apartment buildings and family homes.

Subsidy Title No. 1 SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RENTAL HOUSING FOR PERSONS IN A SPECIFIC INCOME BRACKET

Definition of Terms

For the purposes of the Programme of Construction of Rental Housing, the following terms have the following meaning:

• a rental dwelling is a dwelling intended to satisfy the housing needs of individuals through rental of the dwelling ("dwelling");

• construction1. construction of an apartment building or a family home with two or three dwellings, 2. change of a structure which results in conversion of premises designated for a purpose

other than housing into a dwelling, or 3. vertical addition, horizontal addition, or attic conversion if it results in creation of a new

dwelling;• the acquisition price of a dwelling constructed with government subsidies is a price

calculated in accordance with a special regulation pertaining to appraisal of assets as of the date the applicable certificate of completion takes effect;

• modifiable dwelling is a dwelling which without additional construction modifications can be used by persons suffering from a movement and orientation disorder, i.e. especially persons suffering from a movement, vision, hearing, or mental disorder, aged persons, etc.

Subsidy Title No. 2 SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUBSEQUENT CONSTRUCTION OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND FAMILY HOMES

For the purposes of this programme, technical infrastructure means construction of local Class III and IV roads, including their parts, special purpose communication and utility networks not financed by utility companies, with the exception of technical facilities of energy, telecommunication, and other lines.Support is provided to municipalities in the form of a systemic investment subsidy for execution of selected projects involving construction of technical infrastructure. The maximum amount of subsidy is CZK 80,000 per one dwelling built in the future on land where technical infrastructure is built; government subsidies may not exceed 70% of the total investment cost of a project. The beneficiary of a subsidy, the developer, and the investor is a municipality.

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SELECTED EXAMPLES

KDYN�

KRALUPY NAD VLTAVOU

VELKÉ MEZI�Í�Í

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Kdyn�, Nádražní street, No. 334

Municipality: City of Kdyn� Nám�stí No. 1, 345 06 Kdyn�

Region: Plze�ský (of Pilsen)

Project : Construction of rental dwellings, Nádražní street, city of Kdyn�

Programme: Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure

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Kdyn�, Nádražní street, No. 334

RENTAL DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology: Reconstruction of the former temporary housing facilities built in 1986: • vertical constructions: - bearing panel walls, system TO6B • horizontal constructions: - reinforced concrete, prefabricated, system TO6B • staircase: - reinforced concrete, prefabricated, system TO6B • roof: - original: flat, with asphalt roofing; modified: hogging girders with roof sheeting • annex: - prefabricated skeleton MS 71

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 4 above-ground storeys + 1 underground storey under a part of building + one-storey annex • number of dwellings: 55 housing units ( thereof 7 convertible into barrier-free ones) • dwelling size category: 11 dwellings having less than 80 m2 of utility area 44 dwellings having less than 60 m2 of utility area

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 22,389,000

Technical solution: Construction modifications are related to:

- cutting through the openings in the bearing panel walls determined on the basis of static assessment;

- cutting through and removal of apron wall bands on the loggia windows; - glazing of loggie and their association to living rooms; - warming up of the whole surface of the façade with a thermoinsulation layer 70 mm ; - exchange of all panels of openings (windows, exterior doors, interior doors); - liquidation of existing formica sanitary units with their service cores and their

substitution by new bathrooms, WCs, chambers, separating walls including service cores/pods;

- realization of superstructure of the 5th above-ground storey together with its static securing of lightened floor panels over the 4th above-ground storey;

- removal of original layers of flat roof and realization of a new one made of hogging girders with roof sheeting;

- removal of original floor coverings and fitting of new ones including the insertion of thermal insulation of the 1st above-ground storey;

- dismounting of original installations (except waste-water downcomers, and except installations in the 1st underground floor) and the realization of new external rainwater pipes for external storm sewer;

- modifications in the gas stove room – ensuring the delivery of warm utility water; - modifications to ensure the barrier-free access to adaptable dwellings (ramp, ground

shaping, access to the dwelling No. 6).

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Kdyn� – 55 housing units, Nádražní street, No. 334 Course of structure realization

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Kdyn� – 55 housing units, Nádražní street, No. 334 Views – the existing and the new situations

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Kralupy nad Vltavou,Jan Palach street, No. 743

Municipality: City of Kralupy nad Vltavou U Cukrovaru No. 1087, 278 88 Kralupy nad Vltavou

Region: St�edo�eský (Middle Bohemian)

Project : Construction of rental dwellings, Jan Palach street, Kralupy nad Vltavou

Programme: Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure

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Kralupy nad Vltavou, Jan Palach street, No. 743 RENTAL DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

Reconstruction of the original kindergarten building:• vertical constructions: - walls made from bricks CDm • horizontal constructions: - reinforced concrete, filler blocks, floor plates PZD • staircase: - reinforced concrete • roof: - original: flat, with asphalt roofing; modified: hip roof with tile covering

Data on area, space and capacity:

• number of storeys: 2 above-ground storeys • number of dwellings: 10 housing units (thereof 1 barrier-free) • dwelling size categories: 2 x (1 + 1), 8 x (2 + 1) • built area: 443 m2

• enclosed volume: 4,320 m3

Financial expenditure:

Investment subsidy from the State Budget: CZK 5,500,000

Architectonic, dispositional and technical solution:

The existing kindergarten was built in the year 1970. The building had two above-ground storeys with four classes and, perpendicular to it, one single-storey wing with dressing rooms and entrance. The building was basementless (without cellars), with flat roof. Through the building conversion, 10 housing units with house facilities (pram room/cycle shed, drying rooms and cellar compartments for every dwelling) came into existence. The rental house has one main barrier-free entrance and one entrance from the space behind the building. The dwellings are designed as small-scale dwellings. One of the dwellings in the ground storey is barrier-free. The plan view of the main building has the rectangular shape with dimensions 33,1 x 9,4 m. As to its dispositional and construction solution, it is a double-aisle building with different width of aisles. There is a one-storey wing that has been perpendicularly, approximately in the half of the west façade, annexed to the building. In view of the requirement for sufficient sun exposure of housing units, the predominant part of their rooms is oriented towards the east façade. On the site, there is also a single storey building in which the existing boiler room is placed; this boiler room, including the original gas connection, has remained preserved. All the sanitary engineering, air-conditioning technique, heavy current, light current and central heating distribution systems have been replaced.The architectonic expression of the building is given by the new, changed shaping of the roof. The originally flat roof has been changed, in the two-storey part of the building, to the

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hip roof. The narrow north and south façades are emphasized by the gable of a broad dormer with a lower placed ridge. The long east façade is also interrupted by the gable of an analogous dormer functioning as a lateral façade. The roof has a burnt tile covering. The roof over the single storey neck remained flat; over the main entrance, there is a porch made of white metal profiles with non-transparent glazing. The original wooden windows have been replaced for plastic ones.

The rental house is set into an even terrain. A larger grass-covered ground belongs to the house; it could be used, in the future, for erecting of further two blocks of flats creating with the existing house an architectonic whole. At present, the whole ground is enclosed with a fence. The component part of the structure is also the modification of the parterre in front of the building.

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouGeneral views, details

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouGeneral views, details

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouGeneral situation

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouPlan view of the ground floor with the legend of rooms

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouPlan view of the 1st floor with the legend of rooms

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Rental dwellings in Kralupy nad VltavouViews

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Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street

Municipality: City of Velké Mezi�í�í Radnická street, No. 29/1, 594 13 Velké Mezi�í�í

Region: Vyso�ina (Bohemian-Moravian Highlands)

Project: Construction of rental housing and technical infrastructureLocality �echovy Sady – �ermákova street, city of Velké Mezi�i�í

Programme: Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure

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Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street

RENTAL DWELLINGS

BASIC DATA ON THE BUILDING

Building technology:

• foundations: - strip foundations of simple concrete • vertical constructions: - frame: brickwork, bricks Kerathem, partition walls, partition blocks Ytong • horizontal constructions: - prestressed panels Spirilo with final concreting • staircase: - prefabricated double–flight, steps with terazzo surface • roof: - saddle roof with shred head (wooden roof truss, completed with steel elements), roofing - concrete tiles Bramac

Data on area, space and capacity: • number of storeys: 4 above-ground storeys + attic space • number of dwellings: 21 housing units (thereof 3 barrier-free) • dwelling size category: 18 x (2 + 1), 3 x (2 + 0) • built-up area: 358 m2

• floor area altogether: 1,204 m2

Financial expenditure: Investment subsidy from the State Budget: year 2000 18 housing units CZK 5,760,000

year 2003 42 housing units CZK 26,460,000

Architectonic, dispositional, and technical solution: The new building of the block of flats including 21 housing units is an isolated structure, completely cellared, with four above-ground storeys and one loft-space one. The building site slope is inclined from north-west to south-east, the difference in elevation of the site is taken use of for the access to garages localized in the 1st underground storey from the south-east. The underground storey is partly used for the purpose of cellar compartments, partly, for 6 garages. The 4th above-ground storey has been built into the roof level, the loft storey has been fully built into the attic space. In the 1st above-ground storey of the structure, three dwellings have been arranged as barrier-free to be used by the persons suffering from movement and orientation disorders. The access to the house is enabled by the entrance at the communication level for pedestrians without adjusting by steps.The block of flats with 21 housing units, i.e., the block III, includes the construction of 21 housing units situated from the 1st above-ground storey up to the attic space, further on, of 6 individual garages, 21 cellar compartments, of collective areas (entrance area, staircase with adjacent floors, rooms for prams, bikes and gas-meters). In the structure, there has not been installed practically any collective technical equipment. The heating in dwellings is ensured by direct electric heating appliances, and warming of utility water, by electric storage water heater. The structure includes communications together with pavements and parking, and all the engineering networks which have been built within the frames of this structure.The exterior of the block of flats is relatively simple, its view plan form is nearly rectangular. Outer walls are warmed up by the system with the surfacing called “Munich” plaster. The colour designed for frames of panels (windows, doors, gates) is white. The roof is of saddle type with shred heads, inclination 38°, roofing is carried out of red concrete tiles Bramac. Wooden elements of the roof including the ceiling boarding are impregnated by the brown glazing pain.

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Town-planning solution: The construction of the housing estate is situated on the southern end of the municipality, in the locality called �echovy sady, on the area specified, in the municipal plan, for construction of one-family houses and of blocks of flats.

Construction course: The construction has been taking place stepwise in 1999-2005.

The course of construction: The construction has been taking place in 1999-2005” The new building of the block of flats including 18 housing units - block A(X. 1998 – XII. 1999) The new building of the block of flats including 18 housing units - block B (VI. 2000 – V. 2001) The new building of the block of flats including 18 housing units - block C (X. 2001 – VI. 2002) The new building of the block of flats including 18 housing units - block D (V. 2002 – IV. 2003) The new building of the block of flats including 21 housing units - block I (VII. 2003 – IX. 2004) The new building of the block of flats including 21 housing units - block II (VII. 2003 – IX. 2005) The new building of the block of flats including 21 housing units - block III (X. 2003 – X. 2005)

Aerial view of the area under construction 0n the left, 4 blocks of flats with 18 housing units, on the right, one of the 3 blocks of flats with

21 housing units

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Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova streetDevelopment study

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Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova streetPlan view of the typical storey, and cross-section

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Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street Views

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Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street Course of the construction

Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street View of a finished structure

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Blocks of flats – Velké Mezi�í�í, �ermákova street Views of the housing estate

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ANNEXES

ANNEX NO. 1 UNABRIDGED WORDING OF THE PROGRAMMES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS

APPLIED

ANNEX NO. 2 TABLE OF THE ELABORATORS OF DOCUMENTATION, PHOTOGRAPHIC

DOCUMENTATION AND OF OTHER SPECIFYING INFORMATION

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ANNEX NO. 1 UNABRIDGED WORDING OF THE PROGRAMMES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS APPLIED

PROGRAMME OF REGENERATION OF PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENTS

GOVERNMENT REGULATION NO. 494/2000 COLL. OF 18 DECEMBER 2000 ON THE CONDITIONS FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR REGENERATION OF PANEL-BUILDING SETTLEMENTS

To enact Act No. 218/2000 Coll. on Budgetary Rules and Amendment to Some Related Acts (Budgetary Rules), the Government decrees as follows:

Section 1 – Subject Matter

1. This Regulation defines the conditions for the disbursement of government subsidies (hereinafter referred to as "Subsidy") for the regeneration of existing panel-building settlements consisting of their transformation into multipurpose settlements and a comprehensive improvement of the living conditions in such settlements.

2. The Subsidy is not intended for the repair of prefabricated panel buildings.

Section 2 – Definition of Terms

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following terms are to be understood as follows:

a) 'residential building constructed using the prefabricated-panel technology' is a housing structure, where the housing function is predominant, that has been built using one of the standard construction systems listed in a separate regulation that defines the conditions for government financial assistance for the repair, modernization, and reconstruction of residential buildings constructed using the prefabricated-panel technology, with the exception of housing structures whose construction design corresponds to a family dwelling, where more than one half of the floor area of rooms and spaces is intended for housing purposes, and which has a maximum of three separate dwellings and a maximum of two floors, one basement level, and an attic;

b) 'panel-building settlement' is a self-contained part of a municipality consisting of residential buildings constructed using the prefabricated-panel technology with a total number of 150 dwellings as a minimum;

c) 'modifications' include planning and execution work aimed at completing social, economic, urban, architectural, and technical modifications and modernization leading to the gradual regeneration of existing panel-building settlements and their transformation into

multipurpose settlements; modifications consist of:

1. drafting a regulatory plan for a panel-building settlement or a part thereof;

2. building transport and technical infrastructure, including the repair of existing and construction of new local roads, walkways, public areas, and bicycle trails, building anti-noise barriers, building stopover and parking places, including the prescribed number of parking places for the vehicles of persons suffering from a medical disorder, implementing measures aimed at maintaining or increasing the total size of non-solidified areas so as to protect the microclimate and decelerate the draining of rainwater, removing above-the-ground electric lines and replacing them with underground cables, repairing and improving public lighting, implementing local flood-prevention measures, converting local heat plants for the use of environment-friendly fuel, using renewable sources of energy in local heat plants, and performing design work related thereto; or

3. modifying public areas, including the repair and construction of fire-fighting zones, and public green areas, including the planting of grass and full-grown trees, repairing existing and constructing new children's playgrounds with sandboxes, climbing structures, and park benches and relaxation areas, modifying and building public recreation areas, and performing design work related thereto;

d) 'panel-settlement regeneration project' is a project prepared according to the conditions outlined in the Procedures for Preparing Panel-Settlement Regeneration Projects enclosed as an annex to this Regulation, which is aimed at a comprehensive improvement of the living conditions in a panel-building settlement and consists of the modifications listed under subsection c).

Section 3 – Conditions for Obtaining Subsidy

1. The Subsidy can be obtained by a municipality in whose territory a panel-building settlement is located.

2. The Subsidy can be obtained if the following conditions are fulfilled: a. the municipality has an approved land-use plan

and a panel-building settlement regeneration project,

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b. the municipality finances at least 30% of the budget cost of the modifications referred to in Section 2, subsection c),

c. no state financial assistance has been provided for the completion of the modifications pursuant to separate laws and regulations.

3. The Subsidy can be provided only once for the same type of modifications in one panel-building settlement.

4. The Subsidy can also be provided for in-progress modifications, provided that the conditions defined in this Regulation are fulfilled.

Section 4 – Amount of Subsidy

The Subsidy can be provided up to 70% of the budget cost of the modifications specified in an application for subsidy.

Section 5 – Subsidy Disbursement Procedure

1. The Subsidy can be provided based on an application filed by a municipality with the applicable region.

2. An application must be submitted using a form distributed by the Ministry for Regional Development (hereinafter referred to as "Ministry") and accompanied by the following: a. a panel-building settlement regeneration

project,b. a document demonstrating the approval of

the municipality's land-use plan, c. a document demonstrating the approval of

the panel-building settlement regeneration project by the municipal assembly,

d. a document demonstrating the ownership of land and structures,

e. completed Ministry of Finance forms for the financing of programmes using government assistance, pre-accession and structural funds of the European Communities, NATO funds, and government-guaranteedloans,

f. a legally effective planning permit or a legally effective building permit for the modifications referred to in Section 2, subsection c), unless otherwise specified by a separate law,

g. a building permit for the construction of a road,

h. a document demonstrating that the municipality has funds corresponding to at least 30% of the budget costs,

i. the municipality's declaration stating that as of the day of filing the application for subsidy the municipality has no outstanding debts to the state budget and state funds.

3. A region submits an application filed by a municipality, including the documents listed under paragraph 2, subsection a) and its position, to the Ministry within 60 days of receiving the same.

4. The Ministry assesses applications for subsidy and decides what applicants receive the Subsidy. An applicant will be informed of the Ministry's decision without delay.

Section 6 – Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy

The disbursement of the Subsidy is conditional on the financing of the modifications for which the Subsidy is provided.

Section 7

The provision of the Subsidy pursuant to this Regulation must conform to the separate act defining the procedure for assessing the compatibility of government assistance with the obligations arising under the Europe Agreement Constituting the Association between the Czech Republic, of the One Part, and the European Communities and Their Member States, on the Other Part.

Section 8 – Verification and Penalties

The verification of and compliance with the conditions for the disbursement of the Subsidy referred to in this Regulation, the levying of penalties in the case of unauthorized use, and the withholding of the Subsidy are subject to a separate regulation.

Section 9 – Effectiveness

This Regulation takes effect on 1 January 2001.

Signatures – Prime Minister, Minister for Regional Development

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ANNEX TO GOVERNMENT REGULATION NO. 494/2000 COLL.

Procedure for Preparing a Panel-Building Settlement Regeneration Project

and Its Content

Procedure for Preparing a Panel-Building Settlement Regeneration Project

1. Assessment of source materials from the viewpoint of their usability for the regeneration of the panel-building settlement. Source materials are as follows: a. approved land-use documentation; b. municipal land-development programmes; c. the original documentation of the

settlement, documentation of subsequent modifications of the settlement, identification of the owners of land, structures, and dwellings, other documents, such as, in particular, a study of enlargement and modification of the settlement, including modifications securing access for and use by persons suffering from movement and orientation disorders;

d. documentation of completed or in-progress regeneration of some parts of the settlement.

2. Securing the participation of the local population and organizations, in particular: a. providing information in the media (Czech

and foreign experience); b. informing the public of the intention and

consequences of the proposed modifications (including, for example, the display of preliminary 'motivating sketches');

c. conducting a survey among the inhabitants of the settlement and its vicinity and the concerned individuals and organizations;

d. assessing the results of the survey and suggestions made by local inhabitants – a local sociological study, etc.

3. Defining in detail the principles of the municipal development programmes (housing policy, social issues), especially in relation to the problems of the settlement to be dealt with.

4. Preparing a panel-building settlement regeneration project that will include, in addition to sociological, urban, etc. studies, an economic assessment and a financing proposal (selection of all suitable assistance programmes, preliminary negotiations with future investors and other concerned individuals and organizations that will take part in the financing of the project).

5. Discussing the panel-building settlement regeneration project in the municipal assembly, incorporating changes.

6. Approving the panel-building settlement regeneration project, defining stages for the completion of individual modifications.

Content of a Panel-Building Settlement Regeneration Project

1. The analytical section contains an assessment of the source materials referred to under subsections a) to g) and a survey conducted by the planner that prepares the project. The source materials for the analysis are as follows: a. approved land-use documentation; b. previously prepared plans and strategies; c. previous surveys conducted among the

population of the settlement; d. an assessment of the condition of the

settlement from the technical, functional, operational, and spatial points of view;

e. an overview of the development of the age and social structure of the local population, need for jobs, etc.

f. an analysis of the economic conditions for modifications, an overview of existing resources, including government assistance programmes, possibilities of private investments, and other resources;

g. a description of individual modifications.

2. The proposal consists of text, drawings, economic, and document sections.

The text section consists of the following: a. a description of the objectives of the panel-

building settlement regeneration project – the modification and the time horizon during which the objectives should be attained;

b. a list of individual objectives sorted according to their priority;

c. a proposal for the necessary changes in the land-use documentation and changes or preparation of a regulatory plan; the proposal must take into account conditions for social and cultural development and leisure activities; special attention must be paid to leisure activities of children and young people; further, attention must be paid to the creation of jobs and other current issues.

The drawings section consists of the following: a) a part of the approved land-use

documentation;b) motivating sketches and proposals for the

necessary changes of the land-use documentation, and/or proposals for the preparation of a regulatory plan, proposals for specific modifications, etc.

The economic section consists of the following: a) a list of the proposed modifications; b) an estimate of the cost of individual

modifications, calculation of potential subsequent profit;

c) a timetable for the completion of the modifications;

d) a proposal for the financing of the modifications in individual years, detailed specification of the sources of financing.

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PROGRAMME OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR REPAIR OF DEFECTS OF PREFABRICATED PANEL BUILDINGS

Principles

Objective:The objective of the programme is to assist owners of apartment buildings and dwellings constructed with the prefabricated panel technologies listed in Annex No. 1 to this programme during 1950 to 1990. Under this programme, subsidies will be disbursed for repairs necessary for rectifying the most serious defects that cause an emergency condition of an apartment building.

Beneficiary of subsidy:Beneficiaries of the subsidy will be owners of apartment buildings and dwellings, i.e. municipalities, housing cooperatives, and legal entities (legal entities where the state has an ownership interest will be provided a subsidy in the amount corresponding to the percentage of registered capital of non-state ownership interest as of the day of filing an application).

Subject of subsidy:Necessary repairs or emergency work pursuant to Section 87 or 94 of Act No. 50/1976 Coll.,Construction Act, as amended, substantiated by an order of the applicable construction authority. An order of a construction authority must be issued due to the necessity to repair a defect or a failure in respect of which a subsidy can be disbursed under this programme.

Form of subsidy:The subsidy has the form of direct financial assistance. The subsidy can be used only to pay for costs expended during 2004 for the type of repairs specified in this document.

The subsidy will be disbursed up to 40% of the budget costs specified in the Building Registration Card and up to CZK 45,000 per dwelling.

The subsidy will be disbursed for projects where according to the Building Registration Card the budget cost of repair exceeds CZK 160,000. Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy

The subsidy can be used only for repair of defects and failures of apartment buildings (not considered repair is work which results in valorization of a structure in the sense of Section 33 of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax, as amended). The subsidy can be disbursed for repair of a defect or a serious static failure of load-bearing structures, such as foundations, load-bearing walls, staircases, balconies (including replacement of balconies), loggias, terraces, ceilings, and roofs, and a serious design or function flaw of outer parts of a building (non-load-bearing peripheral walls and their parts, railings, attics, decorative elements) which pose an immediate threat to the stability of a building or its part or safety and health of persons.

Repairs must be performed in accordance with the Technical Solution attached to an application for subsidy and project documentation prepared by a person authorized in accordance with Act No. 50/1976 Coll., (Construction Act), as amended.

• An application for subsidy must be made before the end of repairs (carriedover from the section Requisites of Application).

• After an application is approved, the subsidy will be disbursed through a bank account based on a Decision on Use of State Budget Funds in the Financing of a Project. Funds in the account will be released up to the approved amount of the subsidy in the form of payment of submitted invoices to the contractor's account.

• Applications made by owners of buildings must be delivered to the mailroom of the Ministry for Regional Development by January 31, 2004 at the latest.

• If contractual terms are not complied with, the recipient will be required to return disbursed subsidies.

• A settlement will be completed as part of settling financial assistance from the state budget in the year 2004 in accordance with the applicable instructions.

• Repairs performed with the aid of public funds disbursed in accordance with this programme must be identified for a period of at least five years in a visible and non-erasable manner as follows: "This building has been repaired with the aid of state budget funds of the Czech Republic under a programme of the Ministry for Regional Development."

No subsidy will be disbursed for work of investment nature (valorization), repair or replacement of doors, windows, internal non-load-bearing structures, and technical equipment, repair of structures which do not form a whole with an apartment building (outside terraces beyond the ground plan of a building not having the function of entrance area, supporting walls, drains, etc.), repair of parts of structures created by vertical or horizontal addition or reconstruction completed after 1990, and repair of structure for which financial assistance from the state budget has been paid after the year 1990.

Requisites of Application

• An application for subsidy must be made in writing.

• A document showing ownership of the building (original or an officially certified copy of an abstract from the Land Registry, image from the Land Registry map, and an

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abstract from the list of titles not older than three months).

• A sworn statement of the applicantdeclaring that the applicant is able to complete repairs by the end of 2005 at the latest and at the same time is able to invest during 2004 at least the amount of the disbursed subsidy in respect of the total budget of the repairs.

• As to legal entities where the state holds an ownership interest, a document showing the state's ownership interest in the registered capital as of the day of filing an application.

• Filled out Building Registration Card (the form is attached to the programme).

• Technical solution of repairs (thetechnical solution must describe the extent and technology of repairs, but it does not replace the project documentation submitted to the construction authority).

• An order issued by the applicable construction authority requesting performance of essential repairs or emergency work (according to Section 87 or 94 of Act No. 50/1976 Coll.).

• Budget structured according to individual items drafted by an authorized engineer (containing only items meeting the conditions for disbursement of a subsidy).

• If budget costs exceed CZK 500,000, the applicant must demonstrate that the contractor has implemented a quality management system in accordance with the applicable official Czech standard (the contractor must hold a valid certificate issued by a certification authority entitled to operate in the Czech Republic).

• If an applicant filed an application in 2003 and due to limited financial resources did not receive a subsidy, the applicant must attach to the application a copy of documents showing that a tender has been completed in accordance with Act No. 199/1994 Coll. on Public Procurement, as amended.

• Forms specified in Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 40/2001 Coll. on Use of the State Budget, as amended (RA 80, RA 82).

• If a subsidy is allocated, the owner of a building must provide for the needs of the Ministry for Regional Development photographic documentation showing the

progress of completion of repairs (especially the condition before and after repairs).

Process of Assessing Applications

• Applications will be assessed and classified by an evaluation committee of the Ministry for Regional Development taking into account preparedness of the project, the demonstrated objective extent of defects and failures, age of the building, and the regional economic situation. Based on recommendations of the evaluation committee, the Minister for Regional Development will decide the order in which individual applications will be satisfied up to the sum of stated budget funds allocated for the year 2004. Subsequently, selected applicants will be informed of the results of the evaluation.

• Applications that do not meet conditions of this programme will be returned to applicants.

• As to disbursed subsidies, a Decision on Use of State Budget Funds for the Financing of a Project will be issued which will include the Conditions for Provision of a Non-Investment Subsidy from the State Budget. For the issue of such a decision, the owner must provide a copy of a document showing completion of a tender in accordance with Act No. 199/1994 Coll., as amended, and a copy of the contract for work pertaining to performance of the repairs entered into with the contractor.

In Prague on

JUDr. Pavel N�mecMinister for Regional Development Responsible for accuracy: František Vnou�ekDeputy Minister Bc. Ivo Hartmann, MBA First Deputy Minister PhDr. Jaroslav Gacka Deputy Minister

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"PANEL PROGRAMME" REPAIR, MODERNIZATION, AND REGENERATION OF PREFABRICATED-

PANEL BUILDINGS

GOVERNMENT REGULATION NO. 299/2001 COLL. OF 25 JULY 2001 ON THE USE OF MONEY FROM THE STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND TO PAY FOR A PORTION OF INTEREST ON LOANS PROVIDED BY BANKS TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS FOR REPAIR, MODERNIZATION, AND REGENERATION OF PREFABRICATED-PANEL BUILDINGS

Pursuant to Section 9 of Act No. 211/2000 Coll. on the State Housing Development Fund and Amendment to Act No. 171/1991 Coll. on the Powers of Authorities of the Czech Republic in Matters related to the Transfer of State Assets to Other Entities and the National Property Fund of the Czech Republic, as amended, to enact Section 3, paragraph 1, subsections b) and h) of the said Act and to enact Act No. 218/2000 Coll. on Budgetary Rules and Amendment to Some Related Acts (Budgetary Rules), as amended by Act No. 493/2000 Coll., Act No. 141/2001 Coll., and Act No. 187/2001 Coll., the Government decrees as follows:

Section 1 – Subject Matter

This Regulation defines the terms and scope of providing subsidies to organizations and individuals from the State Housing Development Fund (hereinafter referred to as "Fund") as a payment for a portion of the interest on loans provided by banks for the repair, modernizations, or regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings (hereinafter referred to as "Assistance").

Section 2 – Definition of Terms

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following terms are to be understood as follows:

a) 'prefabricated-panel building' is a residential building constructed using one of the standard construction systems listed in Annex No. 1 to this Regulation, excluding family homes,

b) 'loan' is a loan provided by a bank to finance the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building, excluding the cases referred to under section 3, paragraph 3,

c) 'repair, modernization, and regeneration' of a prefabricated-panel building are the activities listed in Annex No. 2 to this Regulation,

d) 'authorized bank' is a bank with which the Fund enters into a contract on securing some activities related to the brokering of Assistance.

Section 3 – Condition for Obtaining Assistance

1. An individual who is the owner or co-owner of a prefabricated-panel building and has his/her permanent address in the Czech Republic can obtain Assistance as long as he/she does not carry out repair, modernization, or regeneration of the prefabricated-panel building as part of his/her business activity. In a like manner, Assistance

can be obtained by an individual who is the owner of a dwelling or non-residential unit in a prefabricated-panel building in accordance with the Act on Ownership of Dwellings (hereinafter referred to as "unit") where no association of the owners of units, as a legal entity, exists.

2. An organization that is the owner of co-owner of a prefabricated-panel building and has its registered office in the Czech Republic can obtain Assistance as long as it does not carry out repair, modernization, or regeneration of the prefabricated-panel building as part of its business activity. In a like manner, Assistance can be obtained by an association of the owners of units established in accordance with the Act on Ownership of Dwellings.

3. Assistance cannot be obtained for loans provided by a construction savings bank under construction savings plans for the financing of housing needs and for mortgage loans in respect of which assistance is provided in accordance with a separate law.

4. Assistance can be provided as long as the following conditions are fulfilled: a. the repair, modernization, or regeneration of

a prefabricated-panel building must involve, as a minimum, repair of static defects, reconstruction of distribution systems (sanitary installations, gas, heating, electrical wiring), and improvement of thermal parameters; this does not apply if the condition of a prefabricated-panel building does not require such repair, modernization, or regeneration;

b. the loan for which Assistance is provided must be granted in the Czech currency;

c. an application for Assistance is filed within six months of the signing of a loan agreement and accompanied by an affirmative position pursuant to paragraph 5 and a declaration of the applicant for Assistance that as of the date of filing the application the applicant has no outstanding debts to the state, a state fund, a medical insurance company, or the Czech Social Insurance Administration;

d. the contractor performing the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building is an individual or organization that has a quality control system implemented and certified in a manner meeting the requirements of the applicable Czech State Standard; until 31 December 2001, this requirement is considered complied with if the contractor performing the repair, modernization, or

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regeneration of a prefabricated-panelbuilding demonstrates to have made an application for the implementation of a quality control system to a certification organization and submits an officially certified confirmation that the application has been received by such a certification organization;

e. the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building must be supervised by a person who possesses a certificate to carry out specialty construction activities;

f. the applicable building permit takes legal effect.

5. A position regarding an application for Assistance pursuant to paragraph 4, subsection c) is issued by a person included on the list of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which is published in the Commercial Bulletin. Included on the list may be an individual who demonstrates qualifications in the field of structural engineering, construction environment technology, or construction statics and dynamics, has at least five years of experience in the construction or design of prefabricated-panel buildings, and works in the assessing of plans for the repair, modernization, or regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings. Further, included on the list may be an organization that employs a person referred to in the preceding sentence or enters into a contract with such a person on the performance of such an activity. The published list specifies the name, surname, and address of such individuals. A position on an application of Assistance is issued 60 days after the submitting of the following: a. the plans of the relevant repair,

modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building;

b. a budget that must specify separately the cost of the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panelbuilding, which is specified in Annex No. 2 to this Regulation;

c. a document showing the floor area of dwellings in the prefabricated-panel building for whose repair, modernization, or regeneration a loan has been granted;

d. a document demonstrating that technical facilities in a prefabricated-panel building have undergone an inspection in case that such technical facilities are not included in the repair, modernization, or regeneration;

e. a certificate confirming compliance with the requirements for economical consumption of energy for heating in case that the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building concerns energy savings.

6. Assistance can be provided only once for the same type of repair, modernization, or regeneration of the same construction elements of a prefabricated-panel building.

Section 4 – Amount of Assistance

1. Assistance is provided in an amount corresponding to the difference between loan installments equaling a reduction of the interest on the loan by three percentage points. As to loans provided for the repair, modernization, or regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings located in the districts listed in Annex No. 2 to this Regulation, Assistance is provided in an amount corresponding to a reduction of the interest on a loan equaling four or five percentage points.

2. The amount of Assistance is determined based on the initial amount of a loan or the part of a loan for which Assistance is provided, the interest rate agreed during the negotiation of the loan agreement, and a theoretical loan repayment timetable based on: a. in the case of annual repayment of the loan,

the assumption that the loan will be repaid by regular and equal monthly installments comprising principal and interest, from the date of filing an application for Assistance up to the date of the agreed maturity of the loan, but not more than 15 years;

b. in the case of a loan provided for the fulfillment of housing needs, where a person participating in a construction savings programme does not yet qualify for a construction savings loan, the assumption that the loan will be repaid by regular monthly installments comprising the interest on the loan, from the date of filing an application for Assistance up to the date of the lump-sum repayment of the loan using a construction savings loan for the financing of housing needs, but not more than 15 years;

c. in other cases, the assumption that the loan will be repaid by regular and equal monthly installments comprising principal, from the date of filing an application for Assistance up to the date of the agreed maturity of the loan, but not more than 15 years.

3. As to loans where the final maturity goes beyond the time limits specified in paragraph 2, subsections a) and c), the loan repayment timetable used for the purposes of calculating Assistance is reduced to 15 years and in the cases referred to in paragraph 2, subsection b) to five years.

4. Assistance applies to a loan or the portion of a loan where the amount does not exceed CZK 4,800 per one square meter of the floor area of a dwelling, even if the provided loan is higher.

5. Assistance may be provided only for the part of a loan that does not exceed the budget cost of the repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building referred to in Annex No. 2 to this Regulation, even if the loan was provided for the financing of other activities.

Section 5 – Conditions for Disbursement of Assistance

1. If due to reasons on the part of an applicant for Assistance, an Assistance Disbursement Agreement is not entered into at the latest within two months of the delivery of a notice issued by

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an authorized bank to this effect, no Assistance will be disbursed. Assistance is disbursed from the date an Assistance Disbursement Agreement takes effect in successive semiannual installments.

2. During the term of disbursement of Assistance, the relevant prefabricated-panel building or unit must be used for residential purposes.

3. If the title to the relevant prefabricated-panel building or unit is transferred to another individual or legal entity, Assistance will be disbursed to the new owner up to the amount specified in the agreement entered into with the original beneficiary of Assistance on condition that the new owner fully assumes the obligation to repay the balance of the loan for which the Assistance is provided and fully assumes the rights and duties arising under the Assistance Disbursement Agreement. If the new owner of a prefabricated-panel building or unit repays the loan for which Assistance is provided by means of a new loan, the unused portion of Assistance will be paid to the new owner if the same assumes the rights and duties arising under the Assistance Disbursement Agreement.

4. If the new owner does not assume the rights and duties referred to under paragraph 3, Assistance continues to be paid to the original owner if the same duly repays the loan, the repair, modernization, or regeneration is terminated, a certificate of completion is issued for the same, and the other conditions for the disbursement of Assistance remain complied with.

5. A beneficiary loses the entitlement to awarded Assistance if a certificate of completion pertaining to the relevant repair, modernization, or regeneration of a prefabricated-panel building does not take legal effect within three years of the signing of a loan agreement for which Assistance is provided.

6. If the amount of a loan is increased or the timetable of installments changed after the signing of an Assistance Disbursement Agreement, neither the total contractually agreed amount nor the amount of individual disbursement changes.

7. A beneficiary of Assistance must within two years of entering into a loan agreement submit to the authorized bank a confirmation of the actual amount of the loan for which Assistance is provided. If the loan is not used up to the amount for which Assistance is provided within two years of entering into the loan agreement, the amount of Assistance will be recalculated according to the actually used amount and the last installment(s) of Assistance will be reduced by the ascertain difference.

8. If a decision is issued on the removal of a prefabricated-panel building for whose repair, modernization, or regeneration Assistance is provided, the beneficiary of Assistance must inform this fact to the authorized bank within 30 days after such a decision takes legal effect.

Assistance Disbursement Procedure Section 6

Assistance can be provided based on a written application filed with an authorized bank. The authorized bank will forward the application to the Fund together with documents demonstrating the fulfillment of the conditions necessary for the provision of Assistance.

Section 7

1. If it is ascertained that a beneficiary of Assistance provided incorrect information based on which an Assistance Disbursement Agreement was entered into or violated the provisions of Section 5, paragraphs 5 and 7, further disbursement of Assistance will be stopped, and the beneficiary will be required, at the Fund's request, to return already disbursed Assistance to the Fund together with a penalty determined in accordance with a separate law.

2. If a beneficiary of Assistance does not repay for more than six months principal and interest in accordance with the loan repayment timetable, the disbursement of Assistance will be terminated, and the beneficiary of Assistance will lose its entitlement to hitherto unpaid Assistance. If the principal of a loan is repaid early, the beneficiary of Assistance will lose its entitlement to the disbursement of the part of the Assistance that would be due after the date of the early repayment of the entire principal of the loan.

3. If a beneficiary of Assistance fails to fulfill the conditions outlined in Section 5, paragraphs 2 and 8, the beneficiary will lose its entitlement to all disbursements of Assistance due after the date on which a decision, which changes the designation or orders the removal of the applicable prefabricated-panel building, issued by the applicable construction authority takes effect.

Section 8

The verification of compliance with the conditions for the disbursement of Assistance pursuant to this Regulation and the levying of penalties for the unauthorized use or the withholding of Assistance are subject to a separate law.

Section 9

1. Relations between the Fund and an authorized bank are subject to a mandate contract. Such a mandate contract must specify the manner of verification and conventional fines for cases where the agreed conditions for the disbursement of Assistance are violated.

2. The Fond may reimburse the persons listed in the Commercial Bulletin pursuant to Section 3, paragraph 5 for a commensurate part of the cost of issuing a position on the provision of Assistance and providing general information on Assistance.

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Transitional and Canceling Provision Section 10

Unprocessed applications for Assistance filed under Government Regulation No. 384/2000 Coll. Laying Down the Conditions for State Financial Assistance for the Repair, Modernization, and Reconstruction of Residential Buildings Constructed using the Prefabricated-Panel Technology, are hereby considered applications for Assistance pursuant to the present Regulation, and they will be processed in accordance with this Regulation; whenever beneficial for applicants, the amount of Assistance will be calculated in accordance with the currently effective regulations.

Section 11

Government Regulation No. 384/2000 Coll. Laying Down the Conditions for State Financial Assistance for Repair, Modernization, and Reconstruction of Residential Buildings Constructed using the Prefabricated-Panel Technology is hereby canceled.

Section 12 Effectiveness

This Regulation takes effect on the day of promulgation.

Acting Prime Minister JUDr. Rychetský in own hand

Deputy Prime Minister Minister for Regional Development

Ing. Lachnit, CSc. in own hand

ANNEX NO. 1 to Government Regulation No. 299/2001 Coll.List of standard construction systems used for mass construction of prefabricated-panel buildings

ANNEX NO. 2 to Government Regulation No. 299/2001 Coll. List of the types of repair, modernization, and regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings eligible for Assistance

ANNEX NO. 3 to Government Regulation No. 299/2001 Coll.List of districts where provided Assistance equals a reduction of interest on loans equaling four and five percentage points

List of the Types of Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration Eligible for Assistance

MEASURES

1. Repair of foundations and hydro-insulation of lower parts of a building 2. Repair of static defects of load-bearing panel structures 3. Repair of peripheral components and their seams 4. Repair of loggias and balconies, including railings 5. Replacement of balconies 6. Installation of thermal insulation on peripheral walls (except windows) – conditional on repair of components

of peripheral walls 7. Refurbishment of outer windows and doors (installation of seals and small repairs of windows and balcony

doors, replacement of inside window glass to improve heat economy) 8. Replacement of outer windows and doors aimed at achieving better technical (noise protection) parameters 9. Repair and thermal insulation of roofs and roof structures (machine rooms, pergolas, etc.) 10. Enclosing loggias and balconies with glass 11. Repair of projecting entrance stairs, railings, and walls 12. Replacement of entryways using anti-vandalism solutions 13. Repair of internal walls and ceilings 14. Thermal insulation of some internal structures 15. Repair of floor covering and floor structures in common areas 16. Repair of common areas 17. Refurbishment of entryways and stairwells, including mailboxes and lighting fixtures 18. Refurbishment or replacement of apartment entrance doors 19. Repair of transfer stations or machine rooms containing water heating systems 20. Hydraulic regulation of the heating systém 21. Improvement of central regulation of the heating systém 22. Installation of valves on heat radiators and creation of conditions for installation of thermostatic valves

(conditional on regulation of the heating system) 23. Modernization of the heating system, including the use of renewable sources of energy connected with the

replacement of piping and radiators 24. Measurement of consumption of hot water, cold water, and energy for heating 25. Repair or replacement of gas and drain pipes 26. Replacement of gas pipes with electrical wiring 27. Modernization of hot water installations (lever-operated faucets, insulation of riser pipes, installation of hot

water meters in apartments)

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28. Repair or modernization of an apartment's sanitary unit (including electrical wiring, sanitary installations, and gas pipes)

29. Repair or modernization of the ventilation systém 30. Repair or replacement of high- and low-voltage electrical components and wiring 31. Repair or replacement of an elevator, including the necessary alterations of the elevator shaft 32. Installation of a new elevator 33. Changes of the layout of an apartment 34. Apartment additions (additions to joined apartments on the highest floor) 35. Repair of lightning rods and fire-safety systems

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PROGRAMME OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUPPORTED HOUSING

This form of subsidy is intended for municipalities and voluntary associations of municipalities for construction of rental housing. Construction must begin before the end of the year 2004.

I. Objective of Support The objective of the programme is to provide support for construction of rental housing owned by municipalities and voluntary associations of municipalities for persons who are disadvantaged in access to housing not only due to their social situation, but also for other reasons based on which they have special housing needs. Such reasons include medical condition, age and the ensuing medical and social consequences, and unfavorable situations in people's lives which prevent them from finding adequate housing and pose the risk of social exclusion.

II. Definition of Terms For the purposes of the programme of Construction of Support Housing for the Year 2004, the following terms have the following meaning: a) a supported dwelling is a dwelling constructed

with government subsidies disbursed under this programme.

b) a protected dwelling is a supported dwelling in a special-purpose facility which is intended to satisfy housing needs of persons having special housing needs due to medical condition or old age; a protected dwelling must meet the technical conditions of a modifiable dwelling,

c) a halfway dwelling is a supported dwelling intended for satisfying housing needs of persons who have special housing needs due to a disruptive lifestyle or a risk environment in which they life and are unable to resolve their unfavorable social situation without external help,

d) an entry-level dwelling is a supported dwelling intended to satisfy housing needs of persons who do not have access housing despite using all existing instruments of social and housing support, but are able to lead independent lives, especially in respect of the obligations of a landlord/tenant relationship,

e) construction is: f) change of a structure which results in

conversion or premises designated for a purpose other than housing into a dwelling, or 1. construction of an apartment building or a

family home with two to third dwellings, 2. change of a structure which results in

conversion or premises designated for a purpose other than housing into a dwelling,

3. vertical addition, horizontal addition, or attic conversion if it results in construction of a new dwelling,

4. modification of a dwelling aimed at creation of an entry-level dwelling,

g) the acquisition price of a supported dwelling constructed with government subsidies is a price calculated in accordance with a special

regulation as of the date the applicable certificate of completion takes effect.

III. Nature of Support A systemic subsidy is disbursed for specific investment projects where the objective is construction of a supported dwelling. As to an entry-level dwelling, a systemic subsidy is disbursed only for construction modifications of investment nature. The maximum amount of subsidy for individual subsidy titles totals:

Subsidy title CZK thousand 1. Protected dwelling 600 to 800 2. Halfway dwelling 600 3. Entry-level dwelling 250

Individual types of subsidies are defined in Section VII. of this programme.

IV. Beneficiary of Subsidy The beneficiary of a subsidy is a municipality or a voluntary association of municipalities.

V. Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy 1. A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality in whose territory construction of supported housing takes place, provided that the following conditions are fulfilled: a) a municipality may pool funds for construction

of protected and halfway dwellings only with a municipality and/or nonprofit organizations established for the purpose of providing medical and social services; the municipality's share in the joint investment must be at least 51% of total investment costs; the possibility to pool funds is not allowed in respect of entry-level dwellings,

b) a municipality in whose territory construction takes place must hold a building permit showing the date of legal effectiveness,

c) the land on which construction takes place must be owned by the municipality,

d) as to construction pursuant to Section II., subsection e), clauses 2, 3, and 4, both the structure and the land must be owned by the municipality,

e) as of the day of filing an application for a subsidy, the municipality must have no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds,

f) the contractor must be selected in accordance with a special regulation,

g) as to projects where the investment cost exceeds CZK 5 million, the contractor must have a quality management system conforming to the applicable official Czech standard,

h) the constructed structure must meet the requirements for specific heat consumption outlined in a special regulation; this requirement

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does not apply to structures referred to in Section II., subsection e), clause 4,

i) the certificate of completion must take effect within three years of the date of issue of a decision of allocation of central resources for a special purpose,

j) the municipality must provide an objective justification of construction of supported dwellings in accordance with Annex No. 2 to this programme,

k) as to construction pursuant to Section II., subsection e), clause 4, the number of entry-level dwellings in one building must not exceed two.

2. A subsidy can be disbursed to a voluntary association of municipalities, if the following conditions are met: a) a municipality in whose territory construction

takes place must hold a building permit showing the date of legal effectiveness,

b) the land on which construction takes place must be owned by the municipality in whose territory construction is to take place,

c) as to construction pursuant to Section II., subsection e), clauses 2, 3, and 4, both the structure8 and the land must be owned by the municipality,

d) as of the day of filing an application for a subsidy, individual municipalities must have no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds,

e) the voluntary association of municipalities must meet the conditions outlined in paragraph 1, subsections f) to k).

VI. Conditions for Use of Supported Dwellings a) the municipality or the voluntary association of

municipalities may not transfer the ownership title to an apartment building, family home, or a supported dwelling to another entity,

b) the municipality may establish no right of lien in respect of apartment building, a family home, or a supported dwelling12 in favor of a third party with the exception of a right of lien securing a loan provided to the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities for housing construction,

c) during the term of use of the building/dwelling, the dwelling must not be used for purposes other than housing; the dwelling must be used as rental housing,

d) rent from supported dwellings for which a subsidy is disbursed under this programme must not exceed the multiple of the acquisition cost of the dwelling and the monthly coefficient 0.00333; rent calculated this way can be adjusted every year as of July 1, but no earlier than after 12 months, by the inflation rate corresponding to the accretion of the average index of consumer prices during the 12 months of the last calendar year in respect of the average of the preceding 12 months, as announced by the Czech Statistical Office,

e) the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must not make the signing of a

lease contract for a dwelling conditional on payment of a funds covering the cost of construction, payment of a deposit securing liabilities originating under the lease contract, or another type of financial performance, such as a donation,

f) the municipality must not approve lease of a supported dwelling in accordance with the Civil Code; this requirement does not apply to halfway dwellings.

VII. Subsidy Titles:

1. Protected Dwelling Objective: The objective of construction of protected dwellings is securing housing for and providing social services according to individual needs of persons who have special housing needs due to their medical condition or old age so as to prolong their self-sufficiency and independence.Target group:Persons with reduced self-sufficiency due to a medical condition or old age. This applies especially senior citizens, persons suffering from a movement and orientation disorder, persons suffering from a mental disorder, persons having a long-term psychological problems, etc. Specific conditions for use of a protected dwelling:a) social services are provided in protected

dwellings, b) the municipality or the voluntary association of

municipalities must sign a contract with a provider of social services on provision of social services or demonstrate that it runs a legal entity which will secure operation and provision of such services,

c) social services must be provided according to individual needs of tenants with an emphasis on strengthening their autonomy and self-sufficiency,

d) the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must sign a lease contract for a protected dwelling with a person from the target group,

e) the construction and technical design of a protected dwelling must meet the requirements for a modifiable dwelling (see Annex No. 1 to this programme),

f) the construction and technical of the building must meet the requirements of Regulation No. 369/2001 Coll. on General Technical Requirements Securing Use of Structures by Persons Suffering from a Movement and Orientation Disorder.

2. Halfway Dwelling Objective: The objective of construction of halfway dwellings is securing housing for and providing services to persons who have a limited ability to lead a normal life due to reduced psychosocial skills, helping such persons overcome unfavorable social situations, helping such persons re-socialize, and preventing their social exclusion.

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Target group:Persons in an unfavorable social situation caused by a disruptive lifestyle or the risk environment in which they live and/or persons having an impaired ability to lead a normal life due to reduced psychosocial skills. This applies for example to persons who exit various institutions (children's homes, therapeutic communities, psychiatric facilities, shelters, reformatories, etc.) or persons living in non-functional families, socially excluded communities, etc. Specific conditions for use of a halfway dwelling:a) social services are provided in halfway

dwellings,14

b) the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must sign a contract with a provider of social services on provision of social services in halfway dwellings or demonstrate that it has established a legal entity which will secure operation and provision of such services

c) the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities signs a lease contract for a halfway dwelling with the provider of social services,

d) the lessee signs a sublease contract for a halfway dwelling with a person from the target group,

e) a condition for signing sublease contract for a halfway dwelling is the tenant's written approval to receive social services; if the tenant fails to fulfill his/her duties under the applicable re-socialization programme, the sublease contract may be cancelled,

f) the rent may not exceed the rent charged for lease of a supported dwelling.

3. Entry-Level Dwelling Objective: The objective of construction of entry-level dwellings is satisfying the housing needs of persons who are unable to find housing due to an unfavorable situation in their lives, while such persons are fully capable of leading an independent life, especially from the viewpoint of meeting the obligations arising from a landlord/tenant relationship. Target group:Persons unable to find housing due to an unfavorable situation affecting their life, even if all existing instruments of the social and housing policy are used. This applies for example to young persons exiting a children's home who lack a family background but demonstrate their ability to lead an independent life, persons who are threatened by social exclusion due to their ethnic origin, person returning from a reformatory, persons who have undergone a re-socialization programme in a shelter or a halfway house, persons having the status of a refugee, foreign nationals who demonstrate Czech origin, etc. Specific conditions for use of an entry-level dwelling:a) the municipality or the voluntary association of

municipalities can sign a contract for an entry-level dwelling only with a person from the target group who as of the day signing a lease

contract has no ownership, co-ownership right, a similar right to a dwelling, apartment building, or a family home; this condition must be met by all other household members who are to live in an entry-level dwelling,

b) the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must sign a lease contract for an entry-level dwelling for a definite period of time not exceeding two years, the contract may be extended repeatedly under the same or modified conditions according to the tenant's specific situation which is assessed by the municipality.

VIII. Basic Obligatory Requisites of an Application for Subsidy: A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality or a voluntary association of municipalities based on a written application submitted to the Ministry for Regional Development (Ministry) on the "Basic Information" form. Together with an application, the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must submit: a) a building permit showing the date of legal

effectiveness,b) as the project documentation, only the summary

report, as to blueprints, only plan, sectional, and layout views, the specific consumption of heat calculated in accordance with Section 8 of Regulation No. 291/2001 Coll. (ev = Ev/V), and the building's geometrical description (A/V),

c) an abstract from the Land Registry certifying ownership of the land or building where construction is to take place (original or an official certified copy of a list of titles not older than three months),

d) technical and economic justification of the project, including a description of the structure of dwellings, floor area of dwellings, cost per square meter of floor area of dwellings, financing method, justification of the cost of project and the project budget,

e) an overview of loans, borrowings, and other liabilities of the municipality;

f) a statement that as of the day of filing the application the municipality has no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds,

g) forms specified in Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 40/2001 Coll. on Use of State Budget Funds in the Financing of Property Reproduction programmes, including the cost per square meter, floor size of all dwellings, and structure of dwellings (RA 80, RA 81),

h) an agreement on cooperation between municipalities6 if an application for subsidy is submitted by a voluntary association of municipalities,

i) an agreement on association, if funds for construction of protected or halfway dwellings are pooled,

j) a document certifying that the municipality runs a legal entity which will secure provision of social services or an agreement on future contract with a provider of social services

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concerning protected or halfway dwellings to be constructed,

k) a copy of current statutes or the provider of social services registered with the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic or a deed of foundation approved by the municipality,

l) an objective justification of construction of supported dwellings pursuant to Annex No. 3 to this programme.

IX. Additional Requisites of an Application for Subsidy A municipality or a voluntary association of municipalities which is informed by the Ministry that its project has been selected for disbursement of a subsidy must deliver to the Ministry additional information within four months of the time the Ministry selects the project for disbursement of a subsidy: a) a document showing a decision of the

municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities on selection of the most suitable offer pursuant to a special regulation,9

b) a contract for work entered into with the contractor,

c) a document showing that the contractor has implemented a quality management system in accordance with official Czech standards, if required pursuant to Section V., paragraph 1, subsection g),

d) a document showing the funds of an organization with which the municipality is to pool funds in a special account immobilized in favor of the municipality,

e) a document showing that the municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities has secured funds for financing the project.

In specific cases that merit special attention, the Minister for Regional Development may grant an exemption from the following conditions of this programme based on a written demand of the municipality: a) provisions of Section V., paragraph 1,

subsection i); this applies also if a subsidy is disbursed to a voluntary association of municipalities,

b) provisions of Section V., paragraph 1, subsection k), this applies also if a subsidy is disbursed to a voluntary association of municipalities,

c) provisions of Section VII., paragraph 1, subsection e) in the case of construction pursuant to Section II., subsection e), clause 2,

d) creation of a halfway dwelling by conversion of premises intended for housing purposes not used on a long-term basis.

X. Procedure for Disbursement of Subsidy

1. A municipality or a voluntary association of municipalities must submit an application, including the compulsory requisites, to the mailroom of the Ministry for Regional Development by January 31, 2004.

2. Received applications will be assessed by the Ministry's evaluation committee which will

recommend disbursal of a subsidy or rejection of the application.

3. Applicants who are informed by the Ministry that their project has been selected for disbursement of a subsidy must delivery additional requisites of their applications within five months at the latest.

4. As to projects for which subsidies are awarded, the Ministry will issue a Decision on Special-Purpose Allocation of Central Resources and a Notice on Limit of State Budget Expenditures in accordance with a special regulation.

5. Based on these documents, which must be confirmed by the applicant and returned to the Ministry in the applicable number of copies, an account will be open at any branch of �eskáspo�itelna, a.s. The municipality will draw the subsidy for payment of contractors' invoices from this account.

6. A settlement of disbursed subsidies must be completed in the year when they are disbursed and in the year when the certificate of completion takes legal effect. If the beneficiary does not exhaust awarded budgetary funds in a current year, the beneficiary must return the unused funds to the state budget. The total amount of the subsidy will not be increased by such an amount of unused funds.

7. The municipality or the voluntary association of municipalities must deliver to the Ministry a certificate of completion within two months of the date the certificate takes legal effect.

XI. Verification and Sanctions for Failure to Comply with Conditions of the programme

a) The Ministry ensures objective verification of execution of projects according to issued decisions on special-purpose allocation of central resources.

b) If a subsidy is used for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was disbursed or if the conditions of this programme are not complied with, the beneficiary of the subsidy may be subject to sanctions in accordance with Section 44 of Act No. 218/2001 Coll. on Budgetary Rules and Amendment to Some Related Acts (Budgetary Rules), as amended by Act No. 187/2001 Coll. Verification is completed in accordance with Section 39 of the Budgetary Rules.

c) The beneficiary of a subsidy acknowledges that any serious deficiency ascertained in the relevant investment activity which can be qualified as unauthorized use of state budget funds will be reported immediately to the applicable financial authority.

In Prague on: JUDr. Pavel N�mecMinister for Regional Development Responsible for accuracy: František Vnou�ek, Deputy Minister Bc. Ivo Hartmann, MBA First Deputy Minister PhDr. Jaroslav Gacka, Deputy Minister

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PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RENTAL HOUSING AND TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure defines conditions for disbursement of funds for construction of rental housing to groups of the population in a specific income bracket and for construction of technical infrastructure used in subsequent construction of apartment buildings and family homes. The programme outlines the conditions for acceptance of new applications from municipalities for projects which must begin by the end of the year 2004.

I. Objective of Support

• The objective of the programme in respect of Subsidy Title No. 1 is providing support for construction of rental housing owned by municipalities and intended for persons in a specific income bracket.

• The objective of the programme in respect of Subsidy Title No. 2 is providing support for construction of technical infrastructure with the aim of increasing the availability of land ready for subsequent construction of apartment buildings and family homes.

II. Subsidy Title No. 1 Support for Construction of Rental Housing for Persons in a Specific Income Bracket

Definition of Terms

For the purposes of the Programme of Construction of Rental Housing for the Year 2004, the following terms have the following meaning: a) a rental dwelling is a dwelling intended to

satisfy the housing needs of individuals through rental of the dwelling ("dwelling"),

b) construction 1. construction of an apartment building or a

family home with two or three dwellings, 2. change of a structure which results in

conversion of premises designated for a purpose other than housing into a dwelling, or

3. vertical addition, horizontal addition, or attic conversion if it results in creation of a new dwelling,

c) the acquisition price of a dwelling constructed with government subsidies is a price calculated in accordance with a special regulation pertaining to appraisal of assets as of the date the applicable certificate of completion takes effect,

d) modifiable dwelling is a dwelling which without additional construction modifications can be used by persons suffering from a movement and orientation disorder, i.e. especially persons suffering from a movement, vision, hearing, or mental disorder, aged persons, etc.; a modifiable

dwelling must meet the conditions outlined in Annex No. 1 to this programme,

e) income 1. income from employment and fringe benefits

pursuant to Section 6, paragraphs 1 and 10 of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax,

2. income from business and other independent gainful activity pursuant to Section 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax, if such an income is subject to income tax at a fixed rate, the expected income,

3. income from capital assets pursuant to Section 8, paragraph 1, subsections a) to e) and subsection g) of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax,

4. rental income pursuant to Section 9 of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax,

5. sickness insurance benefits, 6. pension benefits, 7. material allowance paid to employment

seekers,8. salary paid by employment authorities

pursuant to Act No. 118/2000 Coll. on Protection of Employees from Insolvency of Employers,

9. state social allowance and social care benefits,

10. income from abroad similar to the income referred to in clauses 1 to 9,

11. alimony and other types of regular or recurring income,

f) under this programme, income does not include 1. income consisting of gratuitous use of a motor

vehicle for business and private purposes pursuant to Section 6, paragraph 6 of Act No. 586/1992 Coll. on Income Tax,

2. increased pension benefits due to incapacity, 3. as to benefits referred to in clause 9, one-time

benefits, benefits paid in consideration of the recipient's medical condition, a social increment, and allowance for payment of the needs of a child due to medical reasons in respect of state social allowance benefits.

The income referred to in subsection e) clauses 1, 2, 3, and 4 and similar income from abroad is included after subtraction of expenses necessary for attaining, securing, and maintaining such income as well as additional expenses deducted from such an income in accordance with the Income Tax Act. For the purposes of this programme, such expenses are calculated in a similar manner as expenses used for determining the income tax base pursuant to the Income Tax Act. Monthly income of persons who have income from business and other independent gainful activities, including conversion of income paid in foreign currencies, is calculated in a manner similar to the procedure described in Section 6, paragraphs 3 to 5 of the Act on Subsistence Minimum. When entering into a lease contract

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pertaining to a dwelling constructed with subsidies disbursed under this programme during the period starting on July 1 of a calendar year and ending on June 30 of the following calendar year, the net monthly income is compared with the average income in the Czech Republic ascertained and published by the Czech Statistical Office for the calendar year which immediately precedes the calendar year in which the period referred to in the first part of this sentence begins.

Nature of Support

A systemic subsidy is disbursed for specific investment projects where the objective is construction of a dwelling. A subsidy can be disbursed up to: a) CZK 550,000 per one dwelling, b) CZK 630,000 for construction of a dwelling in

an area where it is at the same time necessary to build local Class III and IV roads, including their parts, special purpose communications, and utility networks if the cost is not paid by the utility company, with the exception of energy, telecommunication, and other lines.

Beneficiary of Subsidy

The beneficiary of a subsidy, the developer, and the investor is a municipality.

Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy

1. Basic conditions: A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality in whose territory housing construction takes place, provided that the following conditions are fulfilled: a) a municipality in whose territory construction of

housing is to take place will finance and execute the construction project exclusively; the municipality may not pool funds for construction of housing with any individual or legal entity, with the exception of another municipality,

b) the building in which rental housing will be created must be owned by the municipality or co-owned by municipalities which pooled funds for construction of housing; the ownership share of the municipality which is the beneficiary of a subsidy must be at least 51%,

c) a municipality in whose territory construction takes place pursuant to Section II., Definition of Terms, subsection b), clause 1 must have an approved land-use or regulatory plan or an approved urban development study,

d) a municipality in whose territory construction takes place must hold a building permit showing the date of legal effectiveness,

e) the land on which construction takes place must be owned by the municipality,

f) as to construction pursuant to Section II., Definition of Terms, subsection b), clauses 2 and 3, both the structure and the land must be owned by the municipality,

g) as of the day of filing an application for a subsidy, the municipality must have no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state

funds; this applies also to municipalities which pool funds in accordance with subsection a),

h) the municipality must provide its housing policy, if it has one, and always a justification of the need to construct housing for the needs of the target group of this programme; this applies also to municipalities that pool funds in accordance with subsection a),

i) the contractor must be selected in accordance with a special regulation,

j) as to projects where the investment cost exceeds CZK 5 million, the contractor must have a quality management system conforming to the applicable official Czech standard,

k) the constructed structure must meet the requirements for specific heat consumption outlined in a special regulation,

l) as to apartment buildings with ten and more dwellings, at least 10% of the dwellings must be modifiable dwellings,

m) in apartment buildings, the floor area of at least 80% of dwellings for which subsidies are disbursed must not exceed 60 square meters; the floor area of a maximum of 20% of dwellings must not exceed 80 square meters, the floor area of a dwelling means the sum of the floor areas of all rooms in the dwelling used exclusively by the tenant (the floor area of a dwelling does not include the area of balconies and loggias),

n) in family homes, the floor area of at least 50% of dwellings for which subsidies are disbursed must not exceed 70 square meters; the floor area of a maximum of 50% of dwellings must not exceed 90 square meters, the floor area of a dwelling means the sum of the floor areas of all rooms in the dwelling used exclusively by the tenant (the floor area of a dwelling does not include the area of balconies and loggias),

o) the certificate of completion must take effect within three years of the date of issue of a decision on allocation of central resources for a special purpose,

p) a subsidy pursuant to Section II., Nature of Support, subsection b) in the amount of CZK 630,000 per dwelling can be disbursed to a municipality only if no subsidy is disbursed for construction of technical infrastructure under Subsidy Title No. 2 or under the programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure announced during the years 1995 to 2003.

3. Conditions for use of rental dwellings built with subsidies disbursed under this programme:

The use of dwellings constructed with subsidies disbursed under this programme is subject to the following conditions: a) the municipality may not transfer the ownership

or co-ownership title to a dwelling, apartment building, or a family home containing dwellings to another entity,

b) the municipality may establish no right of lien in respect of a dwelling, apartment building, or

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family home in favor of a third party with the exception of a right of lien securing a loan provided to the municipality for housing construction,

c) after the certificate of completion takes legal effect, the dwelling must not be used for purposes other than housing, and the dwelling must be rented to tenants referred to in subsection 3,

d) rent from dwellings for which a subsidy is disbursed under this programme must not exceed the multiple of the acquisition cost of the dwelling and the monthly coefficient 0.00333; rent calculated this way can be adjusted every year as of July 1, but no earlier than after 12 months, by the inflation rate corresponding to the accretion of the average index of consumer prices during the 12 months of the last calendar year in respect of the average of the preceding 12 months, as announced by the Czech Statistical Office,

e) the municipality may not approve rental of a dwelling in accordance with the Civil Code,

f) the municipality must not make the signing of a lease contract for a dwelling conditional on payment of funds covering the cost of construction as a donation or another type of financial performance; a deposit paid to secure payable liabilities originating under the lease contract must not exceed the triple of the monthly rent.

3. Rental conditions:

(1) A dwelling constructed with a subsidy disbursed under this programme can be rented:

a) to a person living alone whose average monthly income during the six calendar months before the signing of the lease contract did not exceed 0.8 of the average monthly income in the Czech Republic announced by the Czech Statistical Office,

b) to a person living with other household members, if the average monthly income of the household during the six calendar months before the signing of the lease contract did not exceed 1.5 of the average monthly income in the Czech Republic announced by the Czech Statistical Office.

(2) A lease contract pertaining to a dwelling built with a subsidy disbursed under this programme can be signed by a municipality only with a person who as of the date of signing the lease contract has no ownership, co-ownership, or similar right to a dwelling, and apartment building, or a family home. This condition must be fulfilled by any other household members who are to occupy the dwelling.

(3) A lease contract is entered into for a period of two years. A lease contract can be repeatedly renewed under the same or modified conditions according to the specific situation of individual tenants which is assessed by the municipality.

(4) A municipality may enter into a lease contract also with other persons who do not meet the

rental conditions specified in paragraphs 1 and 2, on the condition that as of the date of signing such a lease contract, all applications for lease of a dwelling made by persons referred to in paragraph 1 have been satisfied.

(5) A lease contract pursuant to paragraph 4 is entered into for a period of one year. A lease contract can be renewed only on the condition that the municipality has received no new applications from persons referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 as of the day of signing such a lease contract.

Basic Obligatory Requisites of an Application for Subsidy

A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality based on a written application submitted to the Ministry for Regional Development (Ministry) on the "Basic Information" form. Together with an application, the municipality must submit:

a) a document showing approval of the land-use or regulatory plan or an approved urban development study for a project pursuant to Section II., Definition of Terms, subsection b), clause 1,

b) a building permit showing the date of legal effectiveness,

c) as the project documentation, only the summary report, as to blueprints, only plan, sectional, and layout views, the specific consumption of heat calculated in accordance with Section 8 of Regulation No. 291/2001 Coll. (ev = Ev/V), and the building's geometrical description (A/V),

d) a drawing of the layout of the entire territory/part of the municipality showing the new construction, connection to utility infrastructure, communications, and sewers, and connection to transport infrastructure in the case of projects pursuant to Section II., Definition of Terms, subsection b), clause 1,

e) an image from the land registry map and an abstract from the Land Registry showing ownership of the land or the building where construction is to take place (original or officially certified copy of a list of titles not older than three months),

f) technical and economic justification of the project, including a description of the structure of dwellings, floor area of dwellings, cost per square meter of floor area of dwellings, financing method, justification of the cost of project and the project budget,

g) forms specified in Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 40/2001 Coll. on Use of State Budget Funds in the Financing of Property Reproduction Programmes (RA 80, RA 81),

h) an overview of loans, borrowings, and other liabilities of the municipality,

i) an agreement on association between municipalities pursuant to Section 48 of the Act on Municipalities, if the municipality in whose territory dwellings are constructed pools funds with another municipality,

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j) a statement that as of the day of filing the application the municipality has no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds,

k) the housing policy, if the municipality has one, and always a justification of the need to construct housing for the needs of the target group of this programme; this applies also to municipalities that pool funds in accordance with Section II., Basic Conditions, subsection a).

Additional Requisites of an Application for Subsidy

A municipality which is informed by the Ministry that its project has been selected for disbursement of a subsidy must deliver to the Ministry additional information within four months of the time the Ministry selects the project for disbursement of a subsidy: a) a document showing the municipality's

decision on selection of the most suitable offer pursuant to a special regulation,

b) a contract for work entered into with the contractor,

c) a document showing that the contractor has implemented a quality management system in accordance with official Czech standards,15 if required pursuant to Section II., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, Basic Conditions, subsection j),

d) a document showing that the municipality has secured funds for financing the project.

In specific cases that merit special attention, the Minister for Regional Development may grant an exemption from the following conditions of this programme:a) provisions of Section II., Basic Conditions,

subsection m) in case that a subsidy is disbursed for a project referred to in Section II., Definition of Terms, subsection b) clauses 2 and 3,

b) provisions of Section II., Basic Conditions, subsection o),

c) construction of a family home containing a single dwelling.

III. Subsidy Title No. 2 Support for Construction of Technical Infrastructure for Subsequent Construction of Apartment Buildings and Family Homes

Definition of Terms

For the purposes of this programme, technical infrastructure means construction of local Class III and IV roads, including their parts, special purpose communication and utility networks not financed by utility companies, with the exception of technical facilities of energy, telecommunication, and other lines.

Nature of Support

Support is provided to municipalities in the form of a systemic investment subsidy for execution of selected projects involving construction of technical infrastructure. The maximum amount of subsidy is CZK 80,000 per one dwelling built in the future on land where technical infrastructure is built; government subsidies may not exceed 70% of the total investment cost of a project.

Beneficiary of Subsidy

The beneficiary of a subsidy, the developer, and the investor is a municipality.

Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy

A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality provided that the following conditions are fulfilled: a) the municipality in whose territory construction

of technical infrastructure and subsequently the applicable number of dwellings is to take place may pool funds for construction of the technical infrastructure with an individual, legal entity, or another municipality; the co-ownership share of the municipality which is the beneficiary of subsidies must be at least 51%,

b) the land on which technical infrastructure is to be constructed must be owned exclusively by the municipality; the land on which the applicable number of dwellings are to be subsequently built must be owned or co-owned by the municipality, an individual, a legal entity, or another municipality which pool finds in accordance with subsection a); the municipality which is the beneficiary of the subsidy must own at least 51% of the land where dwellings are subsequently built,

c) the municipality in whose territory construction of technical infrastructure and subsequently the applicable number of dwellings is to take place must have an approved land-use or regulatory plan or an approved urban development study,

d) the municipality must hold a building permit showing the date of legal effectiveness,

e) the technical infrastructure and subsequently housing must be constructed in an area designated for housing development which must be defined in an approved land-use or

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regulatory plan or an approved urban development study,

f) the development area must be approved for subsequent construction of apartment buildings and/or family homes which must be owned or co-owned by the municipality, or the land, with technical infrastructure, must be sold for a price usual in the locality; however, the land may not be sold before the certificate of completion pertaining to the technical infrastructure takes legal effect,

g) a municipality may receive a subsidy for construction of technical infrastructure for subsequent construction of up to 50 dwellings once in period of three years,

h) the certificate of completion pertaining to the technical infrastructure must take effect within three years of the date when a decision to disburse a subsidy is taken,

i) the certificate of completion pertaining to the applicable number of dwellings must take place within five years of the certificate of completion pertaining to the technical infrastructure; the municipality must deliver the certificate of completion to the Ministry within two months of the date the certificate takes legal effect,

j) the municipality must demonstrate its sources of financing; in case that funds are pooled in accordance with subsection a), the applicable individual and/or the legal entity and/or the municipality must also demonstrate its sources of financing,

k) the subsidy is a special-purpose subsidy and may be used only to finance the project for which it was disbursed; a change of locality or an increase of the number of dwellings is not acceptable,

l) the beneficiary of the subsidy must execute the project in accordance with the documents attached to the application for subsidy and provided documentation,

m) the contractor must be selected in accordance with regulations pertaining to the awarding of public contracts,

n) as of the day of filing an application for a subsidy, the municipality must have no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds; this applies also to municipalities which pool funds in accordance with subsection a),

o) the municipality must provide its housing policy, if it has one, and always a justification of the need to construct technical infrastructure; this applies also to municipalities that pool funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a),

p) a subsidy for construction of technical infrastructure in the amount of CZK 80,000 can disbursed to a municipality only if the municipality has not received a systemic subsidy pursuant to Section II., Nature of Support, subsection b) of Subsidy Title No. 1 of this programme,

q) a subsidy for construction of technical infrastructure in the amount of CZK 80,000 can be disbursed only if no systemic subsidy is disbursed for construction of rental housing on

land with no technical infrastructure pursuant to the applicable government regulation or for construction of rental housing for persons in a specific income bracket pursuant to the applicable government regulation.

Basic Obligatory Requisites of an Application for Subsidy

A subsidy can be disbursed to a municipality based on a written application submitted to the Ministry on the "Basic Information" form. Together with an application, the municipality must submit:

a) a document showing approval of the land-use or regulatory plan or an approved urban development study

b) a document showing that the development area where technical infrastructure and subsequently housing will be built is designated as such in the approved land-use plan or land-use planning material substituting the land-use plan,

c) as the project documentation, only the summary report and an overall view of the structure,

d) an image from the land registry map and an abstract from the Land Registry showing the ownership of the land where construction of technical infrastructure and subsequently the applicable number of dwellings is to take place (original or officially certified copy of a list of titles not older than three months),

e) if the municipality bought the land and the land has not been registered in the Land Registry, the municipality must provide the purchase contract pertaining to the land and a document confirming that an application has been made for registration of ownership of the land in the Land Registry (original or officially certified copy),

f) technical and economic justification of the project, including the cost per unit, financing method, justification of the construction cost, and the project budget,

g) calculation of loans, borrowings, and other liabilities of the municipality; this applies also to a municipality which pools funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a); individuals and legal entities which pool funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a) must provide a calculation of loans, borrowings, and other liabilities,

h) forms specified in Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 40/2001 Coll. on Use of State Budget Funds in the Financing of Property Reproduction Programmes (RA 80, RA 81),

i) an agreement on association between municipalities pursuant to Section 48 of the Act on Municipalities, if the municipality in whose territory dwellings are constructed pools funds with another municipality,

j) a contract on pooling funds in case funds are pooled in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy,

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subsection a) with an individual or a legal entity,

k) a statement that as of the day of filing the application the municipality has no overdue liabilities in respect of the state budget or state funds; the same requirement applies to a municipality, and individual, and a legal entity which pools funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a),

l) the housing policy, if the municipality has one, and always a justification of the need to construct technical infrastructure; this applies also to municipalities that pool funds in accordance with Section III. Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a),

m) a document certifying that the municipality has not received funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection q).

Additional Requisites of an Application for Subsidy

A municipality which is informed by the Ministry that its project has been selected for disbursement of a subsidy must deliver to the Ministry additional information within four months of the time the Ministry selects the project for disbursement of a subsidy: a) a document showing the municipality's decision

on selection of the most suitable offer pursuant to a special regulation,14

b) a contract for work entered into with the contractor,

c) an effective building permit for construction of technical infrastructure,

d) a document showing that the municipality has secured funds for financing the construction; this also applies to a municipality which pools funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a),

e) an overview of the funds of an individual or a legal entity which pools funds in accordance with Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection a); the funds must be deposited in a special account immobilized in favor of the municipality,

f) an image from the land registry map and an abstract from the Land Registry showing ownership of the land or the building where construction of technical infrastructure and subsequently of the applicable number of dwellings is to take place (original or officially certified copy of a list of titles not older than three months), if the municipality provided at the time of filing an application the information referred to in Section III., Basic Obligatory Requisites, subsection e).

In specific cases that merit special attention, the Minister for Regional Development may grant an exemption from the following conditions of this programme:

a) provisions of Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection g),

b) provisions of Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection i),

c) provisions of Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection k)

d) provisions of Section III., Conditions for Disbursement of Subsidy, subsection b), provided that individual parts of the land are owned by individuals who will construct dwellings for their own needs; an exemption can be granted only to a municipality where taxes collected per capita did not exceed to national average in 2002.

IV. Procedure for Disbursement of Subsidy

1. A municipality or a voluntary association of municipalities must file an application, including the compulsory requisites, with the Ministry for Regional Development by January 31, 2004.

2. Received applications will be assessed by the Ministry's evaluation committee which will recommend disbursal of a subsidy or rejection of the application.

3. Applicants who are informed by the Ministry that their project has been selected for disbursement of a subsidy must deliver additional requisites of their applications within five months at the latest.

4. As to projects for which subsidies are awarded, the Ministry will issue a Decision on Special-Purpose Allocation of Central Resources and a Notice on Limit of State Budget Expenditures in accordance with a special regulation.

5. Based on these documents, which must be confirmed by the applicant and returned to the Ministry in the applicable number of copies, an account will be open at any branch of �eskáspo�itelna, a.s. The municipality will draw the subsidy for payment of contractors' invoices from this account.

6. If the beneficiary does not exhaust awarded budgetary funds in a current year, the beneficiary must file an application with the Ministry requesting a decrease of the set limit of budgetary expenditures by October 31 of the current year. If the beneficiary fails to do so, unused funds will be returned to the state budget, and they will not be re-disbursed in subsequent years.

7. The municipality must deliver to the Ministry a certificate of completion within two months of the date the certificate takes legal effect.

V. Verification and Sanctions for a Failure to Comply with the Conditions of the programme

a) The Ministry ensures objective verification of execution of projects according to issued decisions on special-purpose allocation of central resources.

b) If a subsidy is used for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was disbursed or if the conditions of this programme are not complied

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with, the beneficiary of the subsidy may be subject to sanctions in accordance with Section 44 of Act No. 218/2001 Coll. on Budgetary Rules and Amendment to Some Related Acts (Budgetary Rules), as amended by Act No. 187/2001 Coll. Verification is completed in accordance with Section 39 of the Budgetary Rules.

c) The beneficiary of a subsidy acknowledges that any serious deficiency ascertained in the relevant investment activity which can be qualified as unauthorized use of state budget funds will be reported immediately to the applicable financial authority.

In Prague on JUDr. Pavel N�mecMinister for Regional Development Responsible for accuracy: František Vnou�ekDeputy Minister Bc. Ivo Hartmann, MBA First Deputy Minister PhDr. Jaroslav Gacka Deputy Minister

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ANNEX NO. 2 TABLE OF THE ELABORATORS OF DOCUMENTATION, PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION AND OF OTHER SPECIFYING INFORMATION

Programme of Regeneration of Panel-Building Settlements Programme of Financial Support for Repair of Defects of Prefabricated Panel Buildings (necessary

repairs or emergency work) „Panel“ Programme – Repair, Modernization, and Regeneration of Prefabricated-Panel Buildings

Haví�ov Dokumentation 1 Regenerace panelového sídlišt� v Haví�ov� – Šumbarku, II. etapa Publication 1 Ing. arch. Miroslav Chobot, Ostrava – Radvanice Date 1 Zá�í 2001 Dokumentation 2 Z�ízení vstupu do obytného domu, Jedlová 2/493, Haví�ov – ŠumbarkPublication 2 PPS – KANIA, Ing. Jan Kania, Ostrava Date 2 Zá�í 2003 Ostrava Dokumentation 1 Regenerace sídlišt� Fifejdy I, Ostrava Publication 1 Ateliér Genius loci, s.r.o., Ostrava, Dipl. Ing. Stefan Fuchs, Ing. arch. Iva Fuchsová Date 1 Zá�í 2001 Dokumentation 2 TEX-COLOR, ul. Generála Hrušky �. 4, Ostrava – Mariánské Hory Publication 2 Ateliér IDEA, spol. s r.o., Ostrava Date 2 Únor 2002 Pardubice Dokumentation 1 Programme regenerace panelových sídliš�, Pardubice – Pravý b�eh Labe

1. Ulice Ohrazenická, 2. Vnitroblok Varšavská – Nová Publication 1 S.P.B. Date 1 Listopad 1999, b�ezen 2002 Dokumentation 2 Technické �ešení opravy panelového objektu Pardubice, Kpt. Bartoše 409 - 410 Publication 2 Termo+, s.r.o., Praha, Ing. Klára Ježková Date 2 �ervenec 2001 Photodokumentation 2 Archív - ú�ad m�stského obvodu Pardubice II, odbor životního prost�edí a dopravy;

projek�ní kancelá� Ing. Vladimír Moucha, spole�nost MARHOLD v.o.s, Termo+ s.r.o. Svitavy Dokumentation Regenerace panelového sídlišt� Svitavy - Lány Publication Architektonický ateliér Ing. arch. Roman Svojanovský, Ing. Ivo JunekDate 2001

Programme of Construction of Supported Housing – protected dwelling, halfway dwelling, entry-level dwelling; house with daily care

BrnoDokumentation DPS Brno – Bohunice, ulice Arménská 2 a 4 Publication HEXAPLAN INTERNATIONAL, spol. s r.o. Date ChrudimDokumentation DPS Chrudim, ulice Soukenická 158 Publication Ateliér RENA s.r.o. Pardubice;

Ing. Helena Dvo�á�ková; architektonický návrh – Ing. arch. Libor �erníkDate PísekDokumentation Startovací byty pro mladé, náb�eží 1. máje �.p. 1364, Písek Publication PROJEKTOSTAV Písek, projektant M. Rakovan Date Únor 2003 Planá nad Lužnicí Dokumentation Planá nad Lužnicí – Za Farským rybníkem, výstavba 14 b.j. + 26 BZU Publication Ateliér StAr, Tábor; Ing. arch. Jana Stachová Date B�ezen 2003 Strakonice Dokumentation Jezárka / DPS Strakonice, Rybni�ní 1283 Publication AR 18 N�mec Žilka architekti, Praha; auto�i – Ing. arch. Jan N�mec, Ing. arch. Zden�k

Žilka, spoluautor – Ing. arch. Ji�í Pešata Date 2001 Photodokumentation Ester Havlová

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Týn nad Vltavou Dokumentation Stavební úpravy objektu Ke Hradu �.p. 109, Týn nad Vltavou Publication Ateliér Kobera, Ing. arch. Ji�í Kobera, Týn nad Vltavou Date �íjen 2003

Programme of Support for Construction of Rental Housing and Technical Infrastructure

Kdyn�Dokumentation 55 bytových jednotek – Kdyn�; stavební úpravy ubytovny Publication Projek�ní kancelá� Ing. arch. Hana Pálková, Plze�Date Únor 2003 Kralupy nad Vltavou Dokumentation Stavební úpravy objektu MŠ na bytový d�m; ulice Jana Palacha �.p. 743 v Kralupech

nad Vltavou Publication A.T.A. STUDIO – architektonicko-technický ateliér Praha;

Ing. arch. Michal Vondra Date Listopad 2001 Velké Mezi�í�íDokumentation 21 b.j. ulice �ermákova, blok III, Velké Mezi�í�í – �echovy sady Publication A-46, projek�ní ateliér, spol. s r.o., Ing. Jan Nev�iva, Brno Date Únor 2003

The different grounds and photodokumentation – individual cities of Haví�ov, Ostrava, Pardubice, Svitavy, Brno, Chrudim, Písek, Planá nad Lužnicí, Strakonice, Týn nad Vltavou, Kdyn�, Kralupy nad Vltavou and Velké Mezi�í�í. The part photodokumentation – archive of Institute For Spatial Development.

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