Dementi to the territorial study Aupark Brno

The Czech Chamber of Architects protests against statements made by the media that incorrectly state the reasons for the disciplinary proceedings against two authorized architects involved in the study of the Brno shopping center Aupark.

It is not true in any case that the reason for initiating and conducting disciplinary proceedings before the Chamber's Disciplinary Court was that the architects "violated the Professional and Ethical Code of the Czech Chamber of Architects by conducting a land use study for the construction of the Brno shopping center Aupark while simultaneously working on the city’s zoning plan," as mistakenly reported in the media. The Czech Chamber of Architects did not provide such information, nor could it have done so. Such information does not appear in the ruling of the Disciplinary Court dated March 9, 2012, issued in the disciplinary proceedings against authorized architects Jaroslav Dokoupil and Radoslav Kobza.

We again confirm that a violation of the Professional and Ethical Code of the Czech Chamber of Architects may have occurred because the architects did not prevent a possible conflict of interest and worked on the same matter for two clients.¹)
1) Quote from § 23 of the Professional and Ethical Code of the Czech Chamber of Architects: "the architect prevents the emergence of a conflict of interest in relation to both the lay and professional public, especially avoiding a situation in which, while performing professional administrative activities, they would decide in a matter for which they themselves prepared the relevant documents for the client or for which they prepared a professional opinion necessary as a basis for this decision".

The ruling has not yet become legally effective, as the architects filed an appeal to the board of the Czech Chamber of Architects within the statutory period (on April 24, 2012). Therefore, the Czech Chamber of Architects cannot comment in detail on the content of the ruling. Detailed information will be published only after the appeal proceedings are concluded, no later than six months after the appeal is submitted to the management of the Czech Chamber of Architects.

Only if the ruling became final would the architects be required to pay a fine of CZK 50,000 and could not participate in public procurement for the next three years, but they could independently design other types of projects.

Detailed statement also - http://www.cka.cc/oficialni_informace/tiskove-zpravy/ke-kauze-aupark-brno