Ministry of the Environment (Czech Republic)
Czech government ministry
The Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic (Czech: Ministerstvo životního prostředí České republiky) is a government ministry established in 1990. It is the highest body for nature and environmental protection in the Czech Republic.
History
This ministry was established in 1990, before which the environment was divided between the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Forestry and Water Management (within the Czech Socialist Republic). Before the Velvet Revolution, the Ministry of the Interior was briefly called MVŽP—the Ministry of the Interior and the Environment. The first independent Minister of the Environment was Bedřich Moldan.
In addition, from 1990 until the end of October 1992, there was the Federal Environment Committee (FVŽP), which ceased to exist in connection with the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia; the first minister — the chairman of the FVŽP was Josef Vavroušek.
Since the beginning of 1993, the Ministry of the Environment has existed as a central body of an independent Czech Republic.
Merger of the ministry
In June 2010, as part of negotiations on the composition of the center-right government, the ministry was abolished and its agenda merged with other authorities. While Senator Bedřich Moldan negotiating for TOP 09 defended the independence of the ministry, negotiator Civic Democratic Party Jiří Papež advocated a merger of the Ministries of the Environment, Local Development and Agriculture. Public Affairs proposed a merger of the agendas of the Ministries of the Environment and Agriculture.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12037741. VIAF identifies the subject as 158751578. The Library of Congress control number is no90026171. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1992, 1993 and 2010.
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