Český Krumlov, Czechia · Limited traffic zone
Official name Vybraná místa – pěší zóna (centrum města)
The centre of Český Krumlov is a pedestrian zone that motor vehicles may not enter: the ban is on the traffic sign, and the town's ordinance sets what a permit to cross it costs. A permit is 100 Kč for each started day. Two monthly passes exist instead: 1 500 Kč a month for a vehicle allowed into the pedestrian zone only at certain times of day, and 2 000 Kč a month for one allowed in at any time.
The ordinance itself does not say what those times are — it prices two kinds of access without describing either — so a driver who needs to be inside at a particular hour has to ask the town office.
People registered in the zone or owning property there, their close family, businesses and public-benefit users of property inside it, and holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P disability card with their companions pay nothing; nor do utility emergency crews, the ambulance and patient-transport service, deliveries, undertakers, telecoms, road maintenance and cleaning, and refuse collection.
The ordinance has been in force since 1 January 2024 and the national register records it as Platné.
Město Český Krumlov — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 9/2023 o místním poplatku za povolení k vjezdu s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst, čl. 1 to čl. 9, as deposited in the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation (SPP). The watched strings are on the register's result page for this town and this subject area; the wording itself is in the .docx the register serves at /detail/SPPKKBC3Y3K7IOL6/text
Město Český Krumlov — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 9/2023, čl. 5 odst. 1: "Sazba poplatku činí: za každý započatý den 100 Kč". It is charged per started day, so a short errand costs the same as a full day. The two alternatives in the same article are monthly and are not day rates: 1 500 Kč a calendar month for vehicles admitted only at certain times of day, 2 000 Kč a calendar month for vehicles admitted at any time. The charge is payable when the permit is issued (čl. 6). This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording: the strings watched here are quoted from the act itself, and the register's result page for the same act is watched separately
The ordinance states no hours, and it is the only document we hold. What it does say is that some vehicles are admitted to the pedestrian zone "pouze v určitou denní dobu" and others continuously, and it prices those two cases differently — so a timetable exists somewhere, on the traffic signs and in the permits the town office issues, and the ordinance does not reproduce it. We will not guess at it.
The entry ban itself is not created by this ordinance at all: čl. 2 says the charge is for a permit into places "do kterých je jinak vjezd zakázán příslušnou dopravní značkou" — where entry is otherwise prohibited by the appropriate traffic sign.
The pedestrian zone in the town centre. That is the whole of the ordinance's definition: čl. 3 lists the selected places subject to the charge as, in full, "pěší zóna (centrum města)". The ordinance names no streets and no perimeter, so the extent of the zone is whatever the pedestrian-zone signs enclose on the ground, and we do not restate it more precisely than the town did.
Město Český Krumlov — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 9/2023, čl. 3 (Vybraná místa). This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the strings watched here are the act's own
Not this scheme's business. Entry turns on holding a permit, not on the engine: the ordinance sets no emission test and grants no exemption for a cleaner vehicle. Czechia has no municipal low emission zone at all — see the note on the diesel standard.
Not this scheme's business, and there is no Czech scheme for which it is. On 15 September 2026 the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation held zero acts, in the whole country and over its whole history, whose title contains "emisn" — the stem of nízkoemisní zóna — against 107 for "vjezd" and 4 029 for the control phrase "o nočním klidu".
That zero was never evidence on its own, and cycle 67 read the statute to find out why. § 14 odst. 1 of the Air Protection Act (201/2012 Sb.), read from the ministry's official ELI endpoint in the version in force on 15 September 2026, creates a nízkoemisní zóna by "opatřením obecné povahy vydaným v přenesené působnosti" — a measure of general nature issued in delegated state administration, decided by the rada obce.
This register holds obecně závazné vyhlášky and nařízení, and an opatření obecné povahy is neither, so a Czech low emission zone could not appear here whatever municipalities had done.
What the register does rule out is the money: § 14a lets a municipality set a nízkoemisní poplatek by obecně závazná vyhláška, which would be filed here, and the register's controlled vocabulary of 137 statutory empowerments cites 201/2012 Sb. exactly three times — § 10 odst. 4 (10 acts filed under it), § 16 odst.
5 (241) and § 17 odst. 5 (19) — and never § 14 or § 14a. So no Czech municipality has introduced a low-emission charge.
Cycle 68 read that other collection, and it settles the rest. § 14 odst. 6 requires a municipality that establishes a zone to send the measure to the Ministry of the Environment within one month of announcing it, and the state service catalogue registers the ministry’s duty to publish the resulting list as agenda A1126, in force since 29 May 2021.
That list is a page on the ministry’s own site, and on 15 September 2026 it read "V ČR zatím nebyla v žádné obci zavedena nízkoemisní zóna" — no municipality in the Czech Republic has yet established a low emission zone — and added that the national system for checking a vehicle against a zone has not been switched on, because there is no zone to check it against.
This is no longer an inference from a register that could not have held the instrument: it is the receiving ministry’s own statement, on the page its own service catalogue names as the statutory list. The one restriction the ministry does name is in Prague, where parts of the city bar vehicles over 3.5 tonnes that do not meet Euro 6, and it says in the same sentence that this is not a nízkoemisní zóna within § 14.
We do not publish that Prague restriction here, and cycle 69 measured why rather than assuming it. The ministry points at the city’s own service catalogue for the detail, and praha.eu serves those entries from /api/, a path its robots.txt forbids. The two channels that are not forbidden were then asked, and both answer nothing.
The city’s own register of vyhlášky a nařízení holds 1,049 acts and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, nízkoemisní, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 12 for ovzduší, 13 for vozidel, 12 for omezení, 8 for stání and 5 for zákaz on the same instrument; the only two acts it returns for emis are air-quality programmes for 2006 and 2010-2012.
The city’s open data catalogue at opendata.praha.eu holds 408 datasets and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, značení, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 23 for doprava and 2 for zóna. Prague’s own sitemaps enumerate 67,796 URLs and none of them is a rule page for it either.
That is consistent with what the ministry says the instrument is: not an ordinance and not a § 14 zone, but a road authority’s act carried on a traffic sign.
No official source we hold states an amount. The ordinance sets no fine: driving into a pedestrian zone without a permit is an offence against the traffic sign under the road traffic act, which the ordinance does not cite and whose scale we have not read from an official register. Not estimated.
Město Český Krumlov — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 9/2023, čl. 2 to čl. 7. This source is the register's .docx of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the strings watched here are the act's own
Ministerstvo vnitra ČR — Sbírka právních předpisů územních samosprávných celků a některých správních úřadů, the act's own record page. It carries the register's structured validity field, which is what makes this act citable as current: Platnost reads Platné, and the field moves. Counted on 15 September 2026 across all 112 acts filed in the country under this subject area, it reads Platné 44 times and "Zrušeno k" with a date 68 times — a majority of the entries are repealed, so Platné is a value the register assigns rather than a default it prints
Město Český Krumlov — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 9/2023, full text as the register serves it (.docx). This is the primary wording behind every fact above; the monitor unzips it and reads the wording (D-192), so the strings watched here are the act's own
Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR — Nízkoemisní zóny, the ministry's own statutory list of established low emission zones. § 14 odst. 6 of 201/2012 Sb. makes every municipality send its zone measure to this ministry within a month, and the state service catalogue registers the ministry's duty to publish the resulting list as agenda A1126, in force since 29 May 2021. On 15 September 2026 the list states that no municipality in the country has established one, and that the national vehicle-checking system has therefore never been switched on. THIS SOURCE IS DELIBERATELY CARRIED BY ONE CZECH RECORD, NOT NINE: the claim is the same sentence in all nine emission-standard notes, and watching it nine times would fetch one ministry page nine times on every sweep for no extra information (D-072). Český Krumlov holds it because it is first alphabetically, and a test pins that it stays the only one. The third watched string is the exception the ministry itself names — Prague's ban on vehicles over 3.5 tonnes below Euro 6, which it says is not a nízkoemisní zóna within § 14 — so if Czechia's first real zone appears, or if the Prague carve-out changes, this record breaks and every Czech note gets re-read
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-15.