Dear clients,

on June 30, 2020, as part of our brief coronavirus update, we informed you about the obligation of employers in the Moravian-Silesian Region to prevent entry into the workplace for cross-border workers and EU citizens entering the Czech Republic for economic activities unless they submit a PCR certificate test for SARS-CoV-2 with a negative result (once every 10 days, old max. 4 days).

On July 10 2020, the Regional Hygiene Station of the Moravian-Silesian Region issued Extraordinary Measure No. 14/2020, which extended the deadline for submitting the confirmation of completion of the PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 to once every 14 days; newly the measure applies only on the territory of the municipalities of Frýdek Místek, Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Jablunkov, Bohumín, Havířov, Karviná, Orlová, Český Těšín, Třinec and municipalities for which they exercise extended powers.

TEST COSTS

Due to the ambiguity of the regulation, we contacted the Regional Hygiene Station of the Moravian-Silesian Region and the State Office of Labor Inspection in this matter with a request for information on who bears the costs of testing. In this case, we have been told that neither of these institutions feels entitled to determine who is to bear the costs and, at the same time, that they are not even authorized to carry out inspections in this matter. Therefore, any choice of employers on costs should be justifiable.

TRAVELING ABROAD

Furthermore, we would like to inform you that with effect from today (i.e. from July 13 2020) have been included in the so-called "red countries", from which stricter conditions for entry into the Czech Republic applies (quarantine / negative test) Serbia and Montenegro (previously only Sweden was in this category).