Law note · Czechia
UOOU Enforcement, GDPR Article 82, and the Act on Collective Civil Court Proceeding
UOOU (Office for Personal Data Protection) is Czechia's supervisory authority, empowered under Act 110/2019 to impose General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 83 fines. GDPR Article 82 arms an individual with a direct private right of action.
Czechia's genuine national addition beyond that baseline is Act No. 179/2024 Coll. on Collective Civil Court Proceeding, together with the accompanying Act No. 180/2024 Coll., in force 1 July 2024, transposing Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions; only registered qualified entities may bring such an action.
This session confirmed the act's title, in-force date of 1 July 2024, and structure through zakonyprolidi.cz, a widely used private legal database rather than the official gazette; as of an October 2025 commentary report only two entities were registered and one unrelated action had been filed.
What it asks of an app
- Expect UOOU to have General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 83 fining power over your processing of personal data of a person in Czechia.
- Expect a registered qualified entity to be able to bring a collective civil action, including for a GDPR breach, on behalf of a group of Czech data subjects under Act 179/2024 Coll., in addition to any individual Article 82 claim.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, processes_biometrics, processes_voice
Primary source: zakonyprolidi.cz (unofficial legal database, direct fetch, confirming title and dates)
Chambers and Partners and Cooley commentary (operative detail)