National ECLI coordinator
Supreme Court (Nejvyšší soud)
Burešova 571/20, Brno - Veveří, postcode: 657 37
Czech Republic
Telephone: +420 541 593 111
Fax: +420 541 213 493
Data box ID: kccaa9t
Email: podatelna@nsoud.cz (please put 'ECLI' in the subject line)
web: https://nsoud.cz
Contacts: Petra Polišenská, Michal Ježek (from 1 August 2022)
Generation of national ECLI (ECLI syntax)
The ECLI identifier is used in the Czech Republic to designate decisions issued by the Supreme Court (Nejvyšší soud), the Supreme Administrative Court (Nejvyšší správní soud) and the Constitutional Court (Ústavní soud). As at 2024, all these decisions are searchable by means of the ECLI Search Engine. Implementation of the ECLI identifier continues at high-court and regional-court level. Decisions designated with the ECLI identifier are also searchable by means of that identifier on the court websites (decisions issued by the Supreme Court at https://nsoud.cz, decisions issued by the Supreme Administrative Court at https://www.nssoud.cz/ and decisions issued by the Constitutional Court at http://nalus.usoud.cz).
Country code
[CZ]: country code for the Czech Republic.
Court codes
[NS]: Nejvyšší soud (Supreme Court of the Czech Republic).
[US]: Ústavní soud (Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic).
[NSS]: Nejvyšší správní soud (Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic).
Example of ECLI identifier for Czech court decisions
ECLI:CZ:NS:2012:[case number].1
[CZ] country code (CZ for the Czech Republic);
[NS]is the code of the court that issued the decision (NS for the Supreme Court - Nejvyšší soud);
[2012] indicates the year the decision was issued;
[case number] does not contain spaces or forward slashes; these are replaced by full stops;
The number [1] is the ordinal number of a decision with the same case number.. Inclusion of the ordinal number ensures that the same ECLI identifier is not used to designate more than one decision issued by one court in the same year.