Prague 1 once again calls for a ban on the night sale of alcohol in the evening. He wants to reduce street drinking Home
The town hall has had a similar effort in the past, but without success. According to Prague spokesman Vít Hofman, a similar earlier discussion always on legislative issues.
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“Convenience stores and the like are big problems, especially in a classic store, because customers buy relatively cheap alcohol, which they then consume on the aisles, with all the negatives involved, especially with the disturbance of the night quiet, when the permanent residents rightly complain , “Said Jan Votoček, Councilor of Prague 1 (TOP 09).
He added that Prague 1 is ready to limit the sale of alcohol in premises that it rents to stores itself, but for area regulation it is necessary to approve a city decree. This would have to be prepared by the municipality’s management, which would then be approved by the city council.
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A similar effort of the then management of Prague 1 was to be made in 2016, when the city wanted to limit sales after 22:00 on the territory of the Prague Monument Reserve. Now, drinking in public in Prague is addressed with the help of a decree including alcohol content, where it is prohibited. The ban applies to more than eight hundred places in the metropolis. Representatives of the municipality have been talking for a long time about the new decrees, which were last amended in 2013. However, the new amendment has not yet taken place.
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A spokesman for Prague, Hofman, told ČTK that the city had not yet officially received a new request from Prague 1. “We only know about the demands of the past. Previous discussions have always ended with the fact that municipalities cannot regulate the assortment in establishments with their general regulations. The regulation of alcohol sales in the Czech Republic is solved at the level of the law. In addition, Prague 1 never stated the reasons that lead it to a different opinion, “he said.
At the beginning of last year, the management of the first city district was changed and Pavel Čižinský (Prague 1 Sobě) was replaced by the current first deputy mayor Petr Hejma (STAN) at the head of the city district. The original coalition of Prague 1 proposed to itself, the Pirates and the Greens, due to the loud noise, especially in Dlouhá Street and its surroundings, to limit the opening hours of nightclubs in the center, which did not take place in the end.
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For tourism in Prague, which depends mainly on foreign visitors, the coronavirus pandemic has meant a crushing slump. According to information from the Czech Statistical Office, 82,109 people came to accommodation facilities in Prague in the first quarter of this year. Year-on-year, this represents a fall of 92.9 percent. The number of foreign guests in hotels, boarding houses and camps decreased, the number of which fell by almost 97 percent. Less than a quarter of visitors came to the capital from the Czech Republic compared to the first quarter of last year.