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cultivation of a small quantity of plants or mushrooms containing narcotic or psychotropic substances for personal
use. A fine of up to CZK 15,000 (€ 593) may be imposed upon the perpetrators of each of the misdemeanours.
Effective from 1 January 2009, the Police of the Czech Republic no longer have the jurisdiction in the abovementioned
cases; instead, the jurisdiction lies with the local authorities of municipalities with extended competences.
This has caused problems with the collection of data on misdemeanours under the above-mentioned provisions (j)
and (k) of the Misdemeanours Act which were committed in 2009 and 2010. 113 The information available for 2010 on
the misdemeanours concerned comes from the data collected by the Ministry of the Interior because the standard
reporting form for local government authorities was extended (Ministerstvo vnitra ČR, 2011b). The 2009 data were
collected especially in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, which used its channels to request a retrospective
report from the regional authorities (Národní monitorovací středisko pro drogy a drogové závislosti, 2011g).
A total of 970 misdemeanours involving drug possession for personal use were reported in 2006, and 966
misdemeanours were reported in 2007. The incomplete data available for 2008 114 show 450 cases of
misdemeanours, in which 473 persons participated.
752 misdemeanours involving the possession of a small quantity of drugs for personal use were recorded in 2009.
One fifth of the perpetrators were minors, and the cases most commonly concerned the possession of marijuana or
pervitin or cannabis plants. 1,021 misdemeanours involving the possession of small amounts of drugs or the
cultivation of a small number of plants containing a narcotic or psychotropic substance were recorded in 2010. They
again mostly concerned adults (85%) and drug possession (94%), with only 6% of the misdemeanours involving the
cultivation of plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances for personal use; see Table 9-8 and Table 9-9.
Table 9-8: Drug-related misdemeanours in 2009 and their breakdown by region, age, and drug type (Národní
monitorovací středisko pro drogy a drogové závislosti, 2011g)
Region
Age
Drug
Total
Other Cannabis
Under 18 Over 18 Cannabis Pervitin
persons
drugs plants
Prague 6 105 33 29 31 24 111
Central Bohemia 18 64 23 22 6 37 82
South Bohemia 5 36 9 5 2 26 41
Pilsen 3 27 7 0 0 23 30
Karlovy Vary 2 35 17 5 11 11 37
Ústí nad Labem 16 80 49 24 22 16 96
Liberec 6 63 47 5 6 14 69
Hradec Králové 20 10 14 1 2 13 30
Pardubice 12 15 13 2 0 13 27
Vysočina 3 12 4 3 1 8 15
South Moravia 7 32 12 11 2 18 39
Olomouc 18 43 11 11 7 36 61
Zlín 10 25 7 6 1 22 35
Moravia-Silesia 27 52 20 20 5 37 79
Total 153 599 266 144 96 298 752
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The provision of Section 30 of the Act on Misdemeanours falls within the sphere of the Ministry of Health, which has competence as
the higher-instance appeal authority (review of and appeal against administrative decisions) but the data on the misdemeanours
handled are provided by the Ministry of the Interior, which uses a dedicated form to collect the data on misdemeanours from the
municipalities through the regional authorities, which consolidate the data and send them to the Ministry of the Interior (General
Administration Department).
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On average, they include 60% of all the required monthly reports the relevant district police headquarters were able to provide to the
National Drug Headquarters in 2008.
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