ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES ACFC/SR/V(2019)012 Fifth Report submitted by the Czech Republic Pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - received on 10 July 2019 CZECH REPUBLIC Fifth periodic report on the implementation of the principles laid down in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities under Article 25(2) of the Convention 2 Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4 Part I. - Summary of measures to raise awareness of the Convention for 2014-2018 .............. 5 PART II- Measures taken to meet the main recommendations ................................................. 6 II.1. An open and inclusive approach to the personal scope of the Convention and collection of data on members of national minorities ............................................... 6 II.2. Promoting tolerance and respect, improving the living conditions of Roma and combating racism, xenophobia and hate speech ..................................................... 7 II.2.1. Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs ........................................................... 7 II.2.2. Social Inclusion Agency .............................................................................................. 9 II.2.3. Ministry of the Interior .................................................................................................. 9 II.2.4. Social housing ........................................................................................................... 10 II.3. Reform of the educational system in respect of Roma children ................................... 11 II.3.1. Pre-school education and preparatory classes ......................................................... 11 II.3.2. Inclusive education .................................................................................................... 12 II.3.3. Amending the Framework Educational Programme for Elementary Education ........ 13 II.3.4. Training of teaching staff ........................................................................................... 14 II.3.5. Activities of school counselling facilities .................................................................... 16 II.3.6. Monitoring, record-keeping and statistics for Roma pupil education ........................ 16 II.3.7. Ministry of Education and Ombudsman’s Office cooperation ................................... 17 II.4. National Minorities Committees .................................................................................... 17 II.4.1. National minority authorities in Czech municipalities ................................................ 18 II.4.2. National minority authorities in Czech cities .............................................................. 18 II.4.3. National minority authorities in the Czech regions .................................................... 19 II.4.4. Further information on the functioning of Committees and the work of municipalities in respect of national minorities .............................................................................. 20 II.5. Ombudsman ................................................................................................................. 20 II.6. Former concentration camp at Lety u Písku ................................................................ 21 II.7. Television and radio broadcasting ................................................................................ 22 PART III. - FURTHER MEASURES ADOPTED TO IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION .......................................................................................................................... 23 Article 3 ................................................................................................................................ 23 Article 4 ................................................................................................................................ 24 Article 5 ................................................................................................................................ 25 Article 6 ................................................................................................................................ 28 Article 7 ................................................................................................................................ 33 Article 8 ................................................................................................................................ 34 Article 9 ................................................................................................................................ 36 Article 10 .............................................................................................................................. 38 Article 11 .............................................................................................................................. 39 Article 12 .............................................................................................................................. 40 Articles 13 and 14. ............................................................................................................... 41 Article 15 .............................................................................................................................. 51 Articles 16 to 18 ................................................................................................................... 53 List of tables Table 1 National minority bodies in Czech cities ...................................................................... 18 Table 2 National minority bodies in the Czech regions ............................................................ 19 Table 3 Czech Radio programs relating to national minorities ................................................. 23 Table 4 Summary of the amount of financial resources provided by individual national minorities in 2014-2018 to support cultural activities of members of national minorities ......... 25 Table 5 Funds to support the integration of members of the Roma minority within the Ministry of Culture (in CZK) .................................................................................................................... 26 Table 6 Projects in the Support for Non-Professional Art Activities programme ...................... 26 Table 7 Projects in the Support of Regional Cultural Traditions programme ........................... 27 Table 8 Summary of the number of grants provided to library operators 2014–2018 .............. 27 Table 9 Funds provided to support major cultural activities of museum institutions carrying out activities for members of national minorities ............................................................................ 29 Table 10 Funds provided to support educational activities in museums .................................. 29 Table 11 Funds provided to support exhibition and display projects ....................................... 30 3 Table 12 Funds provided to support the provision of standardised public services to museums and galleries ............................................................................................................................. 30 Table 13 Funds provided to support the protection of cultural property ................................... 30 Table 14 Funds provided to support an integrated system for the protection of mobile cultural assets (protection against adverse environmental influences) ................................................ 30 Table 15 Funding for projects related to the Jewish community .............................................. 35 Table 16 Funds provided to support the dissemination and reception of information in the languages of national minorities ............................................................................................... 36 Table 17 Funds provided to support the dissemination and reception of information in the languages of national minorities 2014 -2018 ............................................................................ 37 Table 18 Funds dispersed in the Support for the Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages programme in 2014-2018 ..................................................... 39 Table 19 Nursery schools with Polish as the language of instruction - school year 2017/2018 .................................................................................................................................................. 41 Table 20 elementary and secondary schools with Polish as the language of instruction - school year ............................................................................................................................... 42 Table 21 Study fields at universities focused on Polish studies ............................................... 45 Table 22 Study fields at universities focused on German studies ............................................ 46 Table 23 Study fields at universities focused on Roma studies ............................................... 48 Table 24 Study fields at universities focused on Slovak studies .............................................. 48 Table 26 Funds in the programme to