On Wednesday, Zuzana Čaputová signed legislation designed to tackle the legal frailty of the Public Health Authority's anti-coronavirus measures. However, at the same time she announced that she will file a motion with the Constitutional Court against a specific provision of the legislation. Čaputová disagrees with the section of the bill which "rules out the right to claim for losses and profits due to measures concerning an indefinite number of people with respect to this law". The President explained that "even though it's legally possible to adjust the scope of this right, it is not possible to rule out or eliminate any constitutional right. In practice it would mean that the state would not bear responsibility even for damage caused by illegal implementation of the amendment," noted Čaputová.
The bill was approved by Parliament earlier in the day. It was discussed in fast-tracked mode after the Prosecutor-General's Office last week pointed to the Public Health Authority's lack of authorisation to issue such measures.
