Information about certain measures taken by governments in the Kinstellar jurisdictions in relation to the COVID-19 situation
This table reflects the situation on 3 April 2020
Central and Eastern Europe
Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine
1. Travel Restrictions
1.1 Incoming Closed borders for foreigners not Passenger entry ban from State of emergency. Entry is Emergency situation has been living in the Czech Republic. abroad, except for Hungarian prohibited to all foreigners who do introduced through 24 April 2020. Mandatory quarantine of 14 days citizens. not have residence permit, with With effect from 28 March 2020, for everyone who enters the Non-Hungarian citizens arriving minor exceptions (diplomats, no entry is allowed except by Czech Republic (save for some from abroad cannot enter the cargo transport drivers). Ukrainian nationals by car or on exceptions). territory of Hungary in passenger All persons returning home from foot. traffic, with certain exceptions. abroad are ordered mandatory Hungarian citizens arriving from quarantine in accommodation abroad must undergo a medical facilities designated by the examination when entering Ministry of interior for the time Hungary. necessary to test them for COVID-19, After the negative Those Hungarian citizens arriving test, home quarantine is required from abroad who, as a result of for 14 days, the stay in the medical examination, are designated premises is included suspected of being infected with in these 14 days. Non- COVID-19 shall be placed in compliance is subject to fine of up designated quarantine. Those to 1659 EUR.. Hungarian citizens arriving from abroad who are, as a result of a Effective 19 March, Slovak medical examination, not citizens residing or working in suspected of being infected with Hungary in the distance less than COVID-19 are required to 30 km are allowed to cross the borders with valid ID and
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine undergo a home surveillance for document confirming 14 days at their place of employment. Quarantine does residence or stay and these not apply to such persons. persons are registered by the epidemiological authority and the compliance with the rules on official house quarantine is monitored by the police. These measures do not apply if the Hungarian citizen arriving from abroad has credibly proved that he / she (i) has recovered from COVID-19 infection and shows no symptoms of infection, or (ii) was subjected to epidemiological surveillance for at least 14 days prior to entry. The above provisions do not apply to freight transport traffic. The Foreign Language Learning Program is suspended.
1.2 Outgoing Closed borders for citizens The following persons may leave Leaving Slovakia is allowed. Ukrainian nationals may leave (citizens working near borders Hungary only with the special Ukraine by car or on foot. Foreign may leave but must stay in permission of the Minister: health nationals and stateless persons quarantine for 14 days after they care workers, soldiers, police may leave Ukraine only upon return), foreigners living in the officers and government approval by Ukrainian authorities. Czech Republic may leave but officials. cannot return.
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine School trips abroad are forbidden; a booked school trip abroad must be cancelled.
2. Other Restrictions
2.1 Free Prohibited. Permitted movement Limitation of movement outside Not restricted. The Government Intercity autobus and railway Movement limited to traveling to work, the house are now temporarily in currently recommends the passenger transportation is buying groceries, necessary effect. According to the relevant limitation of the domestic prohibited. errands and occasional walks in government decree, the place of movement. parks/nature. residence or stay may only be left The Public Health Authority for reasons provided in the strongly recommends to all decree, e.g.: to perform work or persons aged 65 and above to professional obligation; to access minimize their external to health care services; to environment movement. supervise and escort children; to provide assistance to persons who are unable to care for themselves or need assistance (such as minors, the elderly and the sick); to pursue individual leisure sports activities or leisure walking; to have marriage and funeral in a narrow family circle; to shop at grocery stores selling daily consumer goods, in drugstores and markets; to perform religious activity; to access certain beauty services, administration requiring personal appearance, including
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine administrative, banking, financial, insurance and postal services, if absolutely necessary; to take care of animals, walking of pets in public areas; to visit a gas station etc. Furthermore, everyone is required to reduce social contact with other people to a minimum and to keep themselves at least 1.5 meters away from the other person, except those in the common household. It is forbidden to stay in a catering facility except for those employed there. The exception is the delivery of takeaway food. Persons over 65 may visit a grocery store, drugstore, market, or pharmacy only between 9 a.m. and noon. During this period only, persons over 65 may stay at the aforementioned premises, except for those employed there. Violating these specific restrictive measures are now considered to be an infraction.
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2.2 Closures Almost all shops, restaurants, Prohibition of physical presence All public places and retail No public events permitted and (public places, public places etc. closed. in kindergartens schools, and facilities closed with the exception all retail businesses must be shut shops etc.) universities. Closing a number of of groceries, drugstores, down, except groceries, public offices. pharmacies, medical devices pharmacies, wholesale food Only the following types of shops dispensers, optician shops, traders, hospitals, veterinary may be open between 15:00- newspaper shops, veterinary practices and drugstores, 06:00: groceries, pharmacies, clinics, animal feed shops, telco technical maintenance and repair shops that sell hygiene products, operators, banks, post offices, business, banks, postal offices tobacco shops and gas stations. insurance and leasing services, and distributors of fodder, All other shops must close after e-shops with pick-up option, agrochemicals and seeds. State 15:00. delivery services, laundry and dry authorities and courts continue to cleaning services, fuel stations, operate. Only the employees may stay in funeral, services, crematoriums, restaurants, bars, cafés between All schools, universities and car, tire and towing services, 15:00-06:00 (except for take- kindergartens are closed technical inspection and emission away services). (distance learning taking place control providers, computer and where possible). Only the employees may stay in telecommunication equipment cinemas, theatres and libraries. repair services, taxi (delivery of Visiting these facilities as goods only), legal services, consumer is prohibited. locksmith shops, waste collection No public events shall be held, points, bike shops, textile and except for religious events, civil haberdashery shops. The above marriage and funerals. Sport shops and services are not events can only be held behind limited by sales area size. closed doors. Subject to the internal sales area Official documents issued by limit of 2000 square meters Government Offices and District stores of building materials, Offices shall not be handed over installations and wiring materials, personally at the respective hardware, paints, horticulture and Government Office or District gardening equipment are also
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine Office, they shall be delivered by excluded from mandatory post. closure. Department stores and shopping malls shall close all the department except to the above. All shops and service providers allowed to operate are subject to restrictions: a) Client’s mandatory coverage of upper respiratory tract on entry and during stay in sales area b) Mandatory hand disinfection on entry or provision of disposable gloves on entry c) minimum distance of 2 meters between waiting shoppers d) the number of shoppers any one time must not exceed the concentration of one shopper per 25 m2 of the sales area e) visible notice on all entrances on the duty to adhere to the above restrictions Furthermore, time from 9 am to 12 am shall be reserved for persons aged 65 and above. Younger person will not be
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine allowed to enter during the designated time. Groceries, pharmacies and selected vital supplies are closed on Sundays for mandatory sanitation. Provision of certain social services is suspended as of 25 March 2020 until further notice. Restrictions do not apply to long term stay facilities.
3. Measures affecting certain industry sectors
3.1 Any general No restrictions except for Not (yet) introduced. Effective 23 March, the export of No except some anti-epidemic import/ export medicinal products (see below). human pharmaceuticals, medical medical goods (see 3.4 below). restrictions devices and in vitro diagnostic devices is prohibited. Export restrictions do not apply to: 1. Human pharmaceuticals producers and production for another state, and 2. Producers of medical devices or in vitro medical devices with regard to orders based on contracts concluded
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine before the declaration of emergency state.1
3.2 Commercial Proposal on general rent Non-residential lease agreements No measures (yet) in place. Commercial landlords and landlords/ tenant payments moratorium has been cannot be terminated by tenants benefit from tax approved by the Government. unilateral termination until 30 vacations, see 4.1 below. Under this proposal all tenants June 2020 in sectors that are Tenants are released from paying affected by prohibition of retail most affected by the coronavirus the rent for the period of and services may postpone their outbreak (specifically tourism, quarantine if they are not able to payments until 30 June 2020. hospitality, entertainment, use the property. This proposal needs to be gambling, film, performing arts,
adopted by the Parliament in event organizer and sport service order to come into effect. provider industries). Almost all shops and restaurants Furthermore, the rent amounts of closed. these lease agreements cannot be raised during the emergency situation declared by the Hungarian Government, even where the underlying lease agreement would provide the possibility to raise the amount of the rent.
3.3 Banks Proposal on general loan Unless the parties agree No measures (yet) in place. Banks are not allowed to charge moratorium (save for certain otherwise, during the period of Some banks provide relief to their default interest and penalties types of loans) of three or six the state of emergency, the clients on voluntary basis. It is under consumer loan agreements months (optional) has been principal, interest and fee expected that mortgage for the period from 1 March approved by the Government. payment obligations of a payments will be suspended through 30 April 2020. Banks are This proposal needs to be borrower under any credit, loan without sanctions. not allowed to increase interest
1 Ministry of Health Measure No. S 02208-2020-SFaLP-2 of 23 March 2020
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine approved by the Parliament in and financial leasing agreement Commercial banks restrict loans under loan agreements order to come into effect. provided by a lender in a (or tighten conditions) to (consumer and corporate) for the Pressure on commercial banks business-like manner shall be entrepreneurs and SMEs. period of restrictive measures. not to distribute dividends. modified so that the debtor will State-owned bank SZRB Banks are also not allowed to receive a payment extension Countercyclical capital buffer rate provides special purpose loans to enforce a loan if a borrower’s regarding its principal, interest was decreased to 1.00 % with SMEs to overcome the hardship breach concerns a payment in and fee payment obligations effect as of 1 April 2020. caused by the emergency the period from 1 March through under its agreement. situation. 30 April 2020. The loan agreements will be The central bank has modified automatically with recommended to commercial regard to the payment banks to accommodate requests moratorium and the maturity of for restructuring of businesses the loan agreements will be whose revenues declined extended, except if the parties because of the COVID situation. agree otherwise. The modification of repayment dates under the loan agreements will also amend the ancillary and non-ancillary supplementary obligations (including guarantee agreements and guarantee declarations). The period of the payment moratorium will expire on 31 December 2020, and this period may be further extended by the Government. The interest (and also fees) accumulating but not paid during the payment moratorium cannot be capitalised with the principal payments but
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine shall be paid following the payment moratorium annually in equal amounts. The duration of the loan agreements will have to be extended so that the amount of the repayment instalments, including principal and interest, following the payment moratorium shall not exceed the amount of the repayment instalments originally agreed. In case of consumer loans not secured by collateral, the total annual percentage rate of charge may not exceed the central bank base rate plus five percentage points until 31 December 2020. In order to mitigate the impacts of the emergency situation on the financial intermediary system, the National Bank of Hungary has introduced on the one hand measures that will reduce the administrative burden of the banks and allow for the flexible application of macro- and micro- prudential rules, and on the other hand introduced temporary restrictions regarding dividend payments and regulatory limits
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine applicable to foreign currency financing.
3.4 Pharma and No re-export of medicinal During the period of state of Not (yet) restricted. Export of some anti-epidemic medical devices products out of the Czech emergency, the export from Imported goods for epidemics medical goods is prohibited. Most Republic allowed. Hungary, within the framework of shall be exempt from VAT and recently, ethanol has been added wholesale activities in relation to customs duties. to the list of the restricted goods. medicinal products or any other The obligation to register with distribution activities on Public Sector Partners Register is commercial scale of temporarily cancelled for the hydroxychloroquine sulphate and suppliers of goods and services of medicinal products and concerning the protection of life pharmaceutical intermediates that and health. contain the active substance hydroxychloroquine sulphate is prohibited with few exceptions.
3.5 Other Restricted agenda of public Regulation of out-of-shop Only as described above – authorities and limited business commercial activities (e.g. leisure industry subject to hours. delivery) for the benefit of the mandatory shutdown. All general public have been automotive manufacturers and simplified. their supply chains closing or Regulation of public procurement expected to close in few days in relation to equipment (but not due to mandatory necessary to prevent and cure shutdown). coronavirus have been simplified. Forehead temperature will be Payment service providers do not measured at all hospitals, apply strong customer factories, shops and places authentication if the individual where people concentrate. amount of the electronic payment Companies breaching this transaction does not exceed HUF
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine 15,000. This means that the measure may be ordered to threshold of the contactless close. payment is increased up to 15 000 HUF, from 15 April 2020 at the latest.
4. Subsidies and financial support available from governmental side
4.1 General for The Government currently So far only sector specific Corporate tax and advance SMEs are not required to pay the businesses and expects to provide a direct measures have been announced. payments is automatically payroll tax for the period from 1 employers financial support for business suspended and businesses will March through 30 April 2020. amounting to around CZK 100 not be sanctioned if Taxpayers may not be held liable billion and indirect support, taxes/advances are repaid and for the failure to pay the payroll mainly in the form of loan returns filed by 31 December taxes for the period from 1 March guarantees, in the amount of 2020. through 31 May approx. CZK 900 billion. VAT payments / returns are not Land tax, real estate tax for non- Main types of currently available suspended automatically, but residential premises and rent support subject to individual request. Tax payments for state and municipal ▪ State guarantee for operating authorities declared they will be land plots for the period from 1 loans from commercial banks benevolent and grant March through 31 March 2020 and financial contribution for suspensions upon request; will not be charged. interest payments Government will not en bloc Taxpayers may not be held liable ▪ Partial reimbursement of wage abolish/suspend the obligation of for the failure to pay taxes for the compensations provided by the employers to pay social period from 1 March through 31 employers to employees due to insurance levies as well as public May 2020, subject to certain the impossibility to assign them health insurance levies. exceptions. a work Under act adopted on 26 March ▪ Social security premium reliefs 2020 following support is for freelancers currently available:
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine ▪ Tax liberation packages, ▪ Entitlement to “quarantine sick including e.g. mass exemption pay” in case of ordered of fees for late filing of income quarantine measure would be tax returns up through to 1 July, paid from the first day (instead 2020; exemption of fees for late of 11th day currently applicable) tax statement in specified of sick leave by the state Social situations. Insurance Company. ▪ Employers forced to shut down or employers with substantially reduced turnover will have a right to job retention grants. Detailed conditions / programmes under which the grants will be paid by Ministry of Labour / Labour Offices are yet to be prepared and announced.
4.2 To specific The Ministry of Agriculture is Taxpayers carrying out the It is expected that banks and State and municipal hospitals, sectors currently preparing a package following activities as main insurance companies will be producers of ethanol and with measures intended to help activity are exempt from paying exempted from so called “special disinfectants, importers of anti- farmers, including e.g. a public dues on wages with levy”, which was in principle an epidemic medical goods benefit possibility to postpone respect to the period between additional tax on selected from certain tax exemptions. repayments for existing March and June 2020: (i) financial institutions. commercial loans. passenger transport by taxi; (ii) The Ministry of Industry and accommodation; (iii) food and Trade has approved financial beverage service activities; (iv) support for small and medium- creative, arts and entertainment sized companies who produce activities; (v) sports activities and healthcare equipment, e.g. when amusement and recreation they acquire new technologies activities; (vi) gambling and
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine and equipment for the production betting activities; (vii) motion of healthcare equipment and picture, video and television personal protection equipment programme production, sound Also, financial support for small, recording and music publishing medium and large enterprises activities; (viii) organisation of implementing a project with a fast conventions and trade shows; (ix) and positive effect in the fight publishing of newspapers; (x) against COVID 19 and its publishing of journals and subsequent impact has been periodicals; (xi) programming and approved. The support can be broadcasting activities. obtained e.g. to acquire materials "Main activity" shall mean as an for the production of protective activity from which the taxpayer and healthcare equipment; 2) for generated most of its revenue, salaries paid to employees but at least 30% during the 6 participating in the production. months preceding the entry into force of the respective government decree. The payment obligation on health insurance contributions in certain sectors is reduced. No contribution shall be paid to tourism development March, April, May and June for certain economic operators. Certain low tax-bracket enterprises shall be exempt from paying their fixed-rate tax obligations.
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4.3 To Employees who need to take Based on a government decree, Employees who need to take Additional payments to employees and care of a child under the age of the entitlement to childcare care of a child under the age of healthcare personnel and individuals 13 years instead of working (e.g. allowance in respect of the care 11 years (if disabled up to 18 workers contributing to anti- for closure of schools) are entitled and education of children is years) instead of working (e.g. for pandemic measures. to a caregiving allowance in the extended until the state of closure of schools) are entitled to The government will provide amount of 60% of the daily emergency ceases. Eligibility for a caregiving allowance for the subsidies to cover the cost of assessment base per calendar childcare allowance is extended whole period of such closure utilities for those individuals who day for the period until the to those beneficiaries whose (instead of 10 days applicable so have been made redundant. schools are opened again. eligibility would cease on or after far). New procedure for provision of the date of declaration of the Freelancers in the same situation Application process for certain allowances to employees who state of emergency. are also entitled to a contribution social security benefits has been suffered from salary decrease as provided by state. already streamlined, e.g. right for a result of shut-down has been Individuals who demonstrably caregiving allowance in case of adopted. suffer from lack of financial funds taking care for a child under the are entitled to apply for a one-off age of 11 (if disabled up to 18 financial emergency assistance. years) due to the closure of the schools shall be proved by Some cities are also offering affidavit of respective person and financial support, e.g. Prague City there is no need to deliver Hall has thus far made a decision doctor´s confirmations. on the deferral of instalment payments for rent in commercial spaces owned by the city and on waiving default interest for late payments.
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5. Measures taken by central banks
5.1 Steps taken 2W Repo rate was decreased by No measures yet. No measures yet. Recently the central bank set a with regard to 0.75 % to 1.00 % with effect as of lower refinancing rate. interest rate 27 March 2020 (the rate was (most recent decreased for the second time as and expected) it was previously decreased by 0.5 % to 1.75 % with effect as of 17 March 2020).
5.2 Steps taken No steps taken so far, the Czech No measures yet. The central bank is not expected or expected with National Bank declared to step in to introduce extraordinary FX regard to local should CZK depreciate even measures at this point. currency further.
5.3 Use of No measures taken up to this No measures yet. The central bank is selling FX to foreign currency moment, the reserves (almost support local currency. reserves USD 150 bil.) might be used to stop further depreciation of CZK.
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5.4 Other Pressure on commercial banks, The NBH, at its discretion, The central bank has relaxed the important steps insurance companies and announced a repayment provisioning rules and certain pension management companies moratorium in respect of loans other capital requirements, not to distribute any dividends. provided under the Funding for suspended onsite inspections of Credit ratio limits for new Growth Scheme ("FGS") and banks and other financial mortgages have been relaxed approved the restructuring of the institutions, rescheduled stress (save for “investment” loans and rescheduling of testing of the banks for a later mortgages). LTV ratio (the size of repayments, thus small- and date. the loan relative to the value of medium-sized enterprises the pledged property) has been participating in FGS will be increased from 80 to 90 per cent, exempted from their repayment DSTI ratio (total debt service obligations under the FGS loans relative to net monthly income) until the end of this year. has been increased from 45 to 50 per cent and DTI ratio (debt relative to net income) has been cancelled.
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6. Other
6.1 Trustworthy Czech National Bank https://www.kormany.hu/en/the- https://www.korona.gov.sk/ (Only https://www.kyivpost.com/ English Czech Government prime-minister/news/we-are- sporadic English announcements https://en.interfax.com.ua/ language suspending-principal-and- available), Czech Chamber of Commerce sources interest-payment-liabilities-on- loans https://www.kormany.hu/en/prime- minister-s-office/news/repayment- of-baby-expecting-and-student- loans-has-also-been-suspended https://www.kormany.hu/en/cabin et-office-of-the-prime- minister/news/from-this- afternoon-shops-are-not-allowed- to-remain-open-beyond-3-00-p- m-not-including-food-stores-and- pharmacies https://www.kormany.hu/en/the- prime-minister/news/we-are- sealing-hungary-s-borders-to- passenger-traffic-and-banning- events
6.2 Other The employer may modify the All schools, universities and already communicated work kindergartens are closed until schedule without taking into further notice (distance learning consideration any deadline for taking place where possible). such modification. Since 25 March until further notice covering the upper
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine The employer may unilaterally respiratory tract routes (mask, instruct the employee to work respirator, veil, shawl, scarf etc.) from home by way of home office is mandatory in publicly or teleworking. accessible places, The employer may take the Upon written reasoned request of necessary and justified measures Public Health Authority, Public to check the health condition of Health Authority shall have the the employees. access to the location data of The provisions of collective mobile phone users. Usage of agreements derogating from the such data is strictly limited to: above shall not by applicable a) Statistical usage to prevent during the period of the and model development of application of the respective threats to one’s health and government decree. life The employer and the employee b) To identify the receivers of have been entitled to derogate Public Health Authority from the provisions of the Labour messages in order to protect Code by way of a separate one’s health and life agreement. c) To identify mobile phone The Minister for Innovation and users in order to protect one’s Technology to prevent and health and life. mitigate the coronavirus The Public Health Authority shall epidemic, to protect the health have the right to collect, process and life of Hungarian citizen, to and store such data during the model and analyse the spread of emergency state only but in no the coronavirus, is entitled to case after 31 December 2020. access and process any data available. The data request of the General meetings, BoD, Minister for Innovation and supervisory boards and other Technology shall be fulfilled by collective bodies of companies
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine state and municipal authorities, shall be entitled to adopt business organisations and decisions per rollam even in case individuals. when the possibility to adopt No enforcement orders shall be decisions per rollam is not delivered to the debtors during envisaged in their constitutional the state of emergency. Certain documents; enforcement activities are to be Pledges must not be exercised put on hold for the period of the until 30 April 2020; special legal order. Time limitation periods in the Moratorium of evictions and private sector shall not pass until suspension of seizures and 30 April 2020; auctions in enforcement Court hearings may only take proceedings. place if and where absolutely Tax enforcement procedures necessary. pending shall be paused until the Time periods to perform acts th 15 day following the end of the and/or fillings in the ongoing court state of emergency. Limitation proceedings shall not pass until period of the right of enforcement 30 April 2020; shall also be paused for the same Until 30 April 2020, the public period. executor cannot sell the So called “Hospital Commanders” immovable asset in the course of were assigned to several execution. hospitals with the aim of ensuring the compliance with rules concerning the epidemic risk and the protection of the health care equipment. The Hungarian Government has settled the rules governing the various legal proceedings in the
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine state of emergency, concerning among others, the rules relating to deadlines, conducting procedural acts, interim measures, the way of submissions and court hearings. As a general rule, if a procedural deadline expires in civil proceedings (including extrajudicial ones), administrative proceedings (including extrajudicial ones), in the period between the entry in force of the extraordinary adjournment (i.e. 15 March 2020) and 15 April 2020, then such deadline will be extended to 30 days after the entry into force of the said Government Decree (i.e. 30 April 2020). The Government Decree also applies to proceedings ongoing at the date of its entry into force. The court of registration may take only documentary evidence. The Company Information and Electronic Company Registration Service may provide any company information or other
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine service exclusively by electronic means. Non-contentious notarial proceedings: With the exception of, among others, registration into the security interest register (its modification, deletion) and making a statement of identity related to such registration, the notary may postpone a procedural act requiring attendance in person to be performed by a date falling within the period of state of emergency and shall notify the persons concerned of this fact; if such a procedural act that was not postponed is missed, the legal consequences of omissions shall not apply. Furthermore, with the exception of a notarial deed containing a testamentary disposition, during the period of state of emergency, the notary may read out loud a notarial deed and perform his notification obligation by means of telecommunication suitable for maintaining continuous audio and video connection.
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine A request to draw up a notarial deed submitted as a paper-based document or orally may also be submitted after the notarial deed is read out loud or at the time of its signing. However, the relevant parties must, possibly on the same day, sign the read-out-loud notarial deed in person in front of the notary public. The Hungarian Parliament adopted Act XII of 2020 on the containment of coronavirus in order to enable the Government to take all extraordinary measures necessary for the prevention of the COVID-19 infection, and for the elimination of its consequences. This act stipulates that during the period of the state of emergency, the Government may, in order to guarantee that life, health, person, property and rights of the citizens are protected, and to guarantee the stability of the national economy, by means of a decree, suspend the application of certain Acts, derogate from the
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Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Ukraine provisions of Acts and take other extraordinary measures. The Hungarian Government may exercise its power for the purpose of preventing, controlling and eliminating the human epidemic, and preventing and averting its harmful effects, to the extent necessary and proportionate to the objective pursued. The Hungarian Parliament authorised the Government to extend the applicability of the government decrees adopted in the state of emergency until the end of the period of state of emergency. The Hungarian Parliament may withdraw the authorisation of the government to prolong the effect of the government decrees before the end of the period of state of emergency. Otherwise, the repeal of the Authorization Act shall be decided by the Hungarian Parliament upon the end of the period of state of emergency.
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