264/2002 Sb.



LAW



of 30 March 2004. May 2002,



amending Act No 155/1995 Coll., on pension insurance, as amended by

amended



Parliament has passed the following Act of the United States:



Article. (I)



Act No. 155/1995 Coll., on pension insurance, as amended by Act No.

134/1997 Coll., Act No. 289/1997 Coll., Act No. 220/1999 Coll., Act No.

18/2000 Coll., Act No. 121/2000 Coll., Act No. 132/2000 Coll., Act No.

220/2000 Coll., Act No. 115/2001 Coll., Act No. 185/2001 Coll., Act No.

353/2001 Coll., Act No. 198/2002 Coll. and Act No. 263/2002 Coll., is amended

as follows:



1. section 67 reads:



"§ 67



(1) Paid pensions are increased depending on the growth rate of total index

consumer prices for households (hereinafter referred to as "price growth") in the

the period provided for under paragraph 5 and to the growth of real wages (index

"the growth of real wages") within the period provided for under paragraph 6.



(2) pensions are increased from pension payments due in January (hereinafter referred to as

"regular date"), unless the increase in the pension provided for under paragraph 4 of

shall be at least 2%.



(3) pensions are increased beyond the regular term (hereinafter referred to as "an extraordinary

the term "), unless the period provided for by paragraph 5, the price increase has reached

at least 10%. Pensions are increased by the first sentence from the payments of the pension

payable in the fifth calendar month following the calendar month

in which price growth has reached at least 10%.



(4) the increase of pensions shall be determined so that the average old-age pension

was the amount corresponding to at least 100% of the price increases recorded in the period

pursuant to paragraph 5, as well as the amount corresponding to at least one third of the

the growth of real wages in the period established pursuant to paragraph 6.



(5) the period for the detection of growth of prices shall be determined so that the first month

This period is the calendar month following the last calendar

month of the period for the detection of growth of prices used in the previous increase

pensions, and last month of the period is an increase in pensions



and in regular time) July calendar year for one year

preceding the calendar year in which falls the regular term increase

pensions,



(b)) in an extraordinary term of the calendar month in which the price growth has reached at least

10%.



(6) the period for the detection of growth of real wages is determined by the first

the year of this period is the calendar year following the last

calendar year period to detect the growth of real wages, used in the

the previous pension increases, which take account of the growth of real

wages, and the last year of this period is the calendar year, two

years preceding the calendar year in which the increase falls within the

pensions. If it is a specified period the growth of real wages provided for by

paragraph 9 is less than 1, taken into account the growth of real wages up to the

increases in pensions, in which there is a specified period the growth of real wages

determined in accordance with paragraph 9 above 1.



(7) If, after the fulfilment of the conditions for pension increases in regular

the term completed in August of the calendar year preceding the calendar year

year to which falls within the regular term of the pension increases, the condition for

pension increases in an extraordinary time, increase pensions only once and

the increase of pensions according to the growth of prices shall be determined according to the price increases recorded in the

the period provided for under paragraph 5 (b). and even in the period specified) according to the

paragraph 5 (b). b). If the conditions for pension increases in the

regular term and to increase pensions in an extraordinary term will meet

at the same time in July to increase pensions only in an extraordinary time.



(8) in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 shall increase pensions granted from the date of that

within the period before the first day of the calendar month in which the falls

the term increases in pensions.



(9) the price growth is determined by the aggregate index increment

consumer prices for households is computed from the original

basis indices of consumer prices recorded the Czech Statistical

the Office; the growth of prices shall be determined as a proportion of the amount of this index in the last

month period for discovery of price increases and the level of this index in the month

that immediately precedes the first month this year. The growth of the

real wages shall be determined as the proportion in which the numerator is the proportion of

general assessment base for the last calendar year, the period for

the growth of real wages and the discovery of General calculation basis for

the calendar year that immediately precedes the first calendar year

This period and the denominator is the average share of the annual index

consumer prices for households is computed from the original

basis indices of consumer prices recorded the Czech Statistical

the Office for the last calendar year of that period and that the average

the annual index for the calendar year that immediately precedes the first

the calendar year of that period. The average old-age pension is determined

According to information from Czech social security administration, as the average amount of

all old-age pensions, which are not paid in concurrence with another

income (section 59) and whose payment was carried out for the last calendar

month period for discovery stipulated prices referred to in paragraph 5.



(10) the pension increases determined by the Government Regulation; with respect to increases in pensions

in a regular term, determined by the government pension increases to 30. September

calendar year for one year preceding the calendar year, the

which falls within the regular term of the pension increases, and in the case of an increase in

pensions in an extraordinary time, determined by the government pension increases to 50 days

Since the last day of the calendar month in which the price growth has reached at least 10

%.".



2. In article 107 paragraph 1. 3 the second sentence, after the words "in which have been increased

percentage amount of paid pensions "the words" in an extraordinary

the term ", and at the end the following words:" in an extraordinary time ".



Article II



For the first month period laid down for the detection of growth of aggregate index

consumer prices for households, for the purposes of the first increase

pensions paid (article. I, point 1) after the effective date of this Act,

considers the calendar month in which the last increase

pensions paid before the effective date of this Act.



Article. (III)



This Act shall take effect on the first day of the month following the date on

publication.



Klaus r.



Havel, v. r.



Zeman in r.