6. 1. 2020

Czech Republic has new rules for court experts and translators (interpreters) in place. On 20 December 2019, the Court Translators and Interpreters Act has been published in the Czech Collection of Laws (No 354/2019 Coll.), pairing the earlier Experts, Expert Bureaus, and Expert Institutes Act (No 254/2019 Coll.). The statutes are going to replace the existing fragmentary regulations dating back to the 1960s – the professions of court experts and translators are newly organized and new complex rules on their activity and liability are being introduced. Both acts shall come into force on 1 January 2021.