Crisis Management in Public Administration

Course guarantor:

Zdeněk Hanuška

Lecturer:

Zdeněk Hanuška

Tutor:

Zdeněk Hanuška

Supervisor:

Department of Health Care Disciplines and Population Protection

Synopsis:

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the issues of crisis management, including the topic of critical infrastructure in public administration, with the tasks and competences of crisis management bodies of the Czech Republic at all levels in the preparation and resolution of crisis situations, with the rights and obligations of natural and legal persons in dealing with crisis situations, with the organizational arrangement and activities of security councils and crisis staffs at all levels of management and with the issue of special facts.

Requirements:

Form of verification of study results: credit written test of 40 questions, oral exam in the scope of thematic areas.

Requirements for the student: active performance of tasks assigned within the seminar, processing of seminar work.

Syllabus of lectures:

Lecture topics:

1. Introduction to the course study, security system of the Czech Republic, legal regulations and other documents in the field of security

2. Classification of threats, type plans, concepts in crisis management

3. Crisis states, states under special legislation

4. Crisis management bodies, competences and tasks of the Government, ministries, other central administrative offices and the Czech National Bank in preparation for resolution and resolution of crisis situations

5. Competence and tasks of regional authorities, municipal authorities with extended competence and municipal authorities in preparation for crisis management and resolution

6. Rights and obligations of legal entities and natural persons in preparation for resolution and resolution of crisis situations, crisis preparedness plans

7. Security Councils, Crisis Staffs in Crisis Situations Resolution

8. Crisis Staffs Critical Infrastructure

9.Critical infrastructure

10.Special facts

Syllabus of tutorials:

1st 2nd week MU analysis, assignment of seminar paper

Week 3 4 Restrictions of Rights and Freedoms in Emergencies and the Government's Competence

Weeks 5 6 Examples of the use of the state of emergency in dealing with specific crisis situations.

Week 7 9 Decision-making process in the Crisis Staff Evaluation of seminar papers

Week 10 Credit test.

Study Objective:

Achieving knowledge in the scope of crisis legislation and its application, especially in crisis management, including the topic of critical infrastructure in public administration, with the tasks and competences of crisis management bodies of the Czech Republic at all levels of public administration, with the rights and obligations of natural and legal persons in dealing with crisis situations, with the organizational arrangement and activities of security councils and crisis staffs.

Study materials:

Hanuška, Z. Koleňák, I. :Study Support of the Course January 2026, FBMI KLadno

. Constitutional Act No. 1/1993, Constitution of the Czech Republic (Article 43).

. Constitutional Act No. 110/1998 Coll., on the Security of the Czech Republic.

. Act No. 240/2000 Coll., on Crisis Management and on the Amendment of Certain Acts (Crisis Act).

. Government Regulation No. 462/2000 Coll., on the implementation of § 27 par. 8 and § 28 par. 5 of Act No. 240/2000 Coll., on Crisis Management and on the Amendment of Certain Acts (Crisis Act).

. Act No. 266/2015 Coll., on the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Entities and on the Amendment of Related Acts (Critical Infrastructure Act)

Government Regulation No. 432/2010 Coll., on the criteria for determining a critical infrastructure element.

. Directive of the Ministry of the Interior No. MV-117572-2/PO-OKR-2011, which lays down uniform rules for the organisational arrangement of the Crisis Staff of the Region, the Crisis Staff of the Municipality with Extended Competence and the Crisis Staff of the Municipality.

Recommended reading:

. Col. of authors. Module A; C; I; crisis management in non-military crisis situations, protection of the population, critical infrastructure. Issue one. Prague: MV-DŘ HZS ČR, 2021, 335 pp. ISBN 978-80-7616-097-2.

. ŠENOVSKÝ, M., ADAMEC, V. Legal Framework of Crisis Management. Rescue management. Ostrava: Edice SPBI Spektrum, 2007, 97 pp. ISBN: 80-86634-67-1.

. ŠENOVSKÝ, M., ADAMEC, V. Fundamentals of Crisis Management. Ostrava: Edice SPBI Spektrum, 2004, 102 pp. ISBN 80-86634-44-2

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomKL:K-333 Hanuška Z. 14:00–15:50 (lecture parallel1) Kladno FBMI roomKL:K-333 Hanuška Z. 16:00–17:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.1) Kladno FBMI
Wed
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Civil Emergency Planning - full-time (compulsory course)