Course catalogue summer term

140LEG2 Aviation Legislation – JUDr. Lucie Vosečková, Ph.D. 
Course objective: 
The aim of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of aviation 
law/aviation legislation, where students will gain basic knowledge in the field. It will create 
for students an overview of the legislation on civil aviation as well as an overview of the 
organization of air transport. It will focus in detail on the legislation in some areas of civil 
aviation. 
Course content: 
- Legal regulation of civil aviation and an overview of its development by a landmark in 
1944.
- Application of international and European legislation. 
- International Civil Aviation Convention and its structure and content. 
- National regulations in civil aviation - Act No. 49/1997 Coll. Civil aviation (Aviation 
Act) and by-laws and procedures (issued by Ministry of Transport, Czech Republic).
- Status, structure, goals, and documents of international governmental organizations 
and civil aviation associations - ICAO, EUROCONTROL. Validity and applicability 
of documents in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
- Status, structure, goals, and documents of international governmental organizations 
and civil aviation associations - ECAC, EASA, JAA, FAA. Validity and applicability 
of documents in the conditions of the Czech Republic
- Status, structure, goals, and documents of international non-governmental 
organizations and associations IATA, SITA. Validity and applicability of documents 
in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
- Status, structure, goals, and documents of international non-governmental 
organizations and associations AEA, ACI, ERA. Validity and applicability of 
documents in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
- Definition of the terms airline and airport from a legal point of view. 
- Legislation and requirements for aircraft ownership, conditions for registration, and 
aircraft eligibility.

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- Development of attitudes to cage terrorism and the attitude of international 
organizations to solve this problem.
- International legal and European regime protects against illegal acts against civil 
aviation (Tokyo, Hague, Montreal, and Beijing Conventions).
- Legal regulation of protection against illegal acts against civil aviation in the Czech 
Republic, involvement of the Czech state administration with a focus on the position 
of the CAA

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