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New Year’s Eve celebrations are approaching, and Prague will test the ordinance on pyrotechnics in this way. In it, for example, it is written that there is a penalty of ten thousand crowns on the spot for the illegal firing of firecrackers, flares and rockets, as Novinky reported.
After two years of the pandemic, tourists have returned to the capital city of Prague, who want to celebrate the arrival of the new year in the metropolis. Prague will thus be able to test the pyrotechnic ordinance, which it introduced in 2020, after the two-year-long coronavirus pandemic.
They prepared the standard according to News ex the mayor’s deputy Petr Hlubuček (formerly STAN) and councilor Hana Kordová Marvanová (now for ODS). According to them, over-the-counter pyrotechnics may not be used in certain parts of Prague, and improper use is punishable by a fine of ten thousand crowns.
Where are pyrotechnics not allowed?
As it says on the official website Praguepyrotechnics may not be set off in a conservation area in the capital city of Prague, on waterways, on islands in these waterways and on land adjacent to the bed of waterwayswithin a width of up to 50 meters from the shoreline, within 250 meters from facilities providing medical inpatient care or from homes for the elderly or from homes for people with disabilities, on dams, dykes, water reservoirs, weirs and impoundments and within 50 meters of them, in natural parks and within 50 meters of these parks at a distance of up to 250 meters from area of the Prague Zoological Garden, animal shelters and veterinary emergency facilities.
There will be no fireworks
According to Novinek, municipality spokesman Vít Hofman revealed why Prague will not celebrate the New Year in any way. “We gave up on those celebrations a few months ago in view of the conflict in Ukraine and at the present time, when I have to save not only the people of Prague, but also the city, so we didn’t think it was appropriate to hold fireworks or other celebrations,” he said.