Care of war graves
The care of war graves is in the Czech Republic is regulated by a law, which sets the owners and state administration bodies rights and duties in the field of care of war graves and commemoration sites.
The owner of a war grave has to take care of it, to enable the access to it in order to show respect or to do works connected with the care of the war grave.
According to the law the care of war graves is understood as their adjustment and protection, furthermore the establishing of new war graves, the relocation or closing of them including the exhumations.
The law also defines the terms maintenance and adjustment of a war grave, i.e. its marking, the position commemorative plaque, monument, memorial or similar symbol, including the war grave maintenance its surroundings and access to it.
Any other change of the war grave other than the above mentioned maintenance and adjustment, especially its relocation or closing is possible only with a written consent of the Ministry of Defence.
The law obliges the state administration bodies especially to coordinate the care of war graves and to keep a record of them. This is the task of the Department of out-departmental cooperation of the CR MoD Personnel Division.
