Czechia
EU-level rules also apply — EU AI Act Art. 4 AI literacy duty applies directly to Czech law firms as deployers since 2 Feb 2025. Domestic conduct rules do not name AI; ČAK's Stanovisko instead stresses undiminished professional responsibility.
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Czechia
Substantialcivil lawupdated 2026-09-04verified 2026-09-04
EU-level rules also apply — see the European Union record →
Czechia regulates legal AI through Czech Bar Association guidance plus directly applicable EU law. The Bar's Stanovisko on AI in legal services, of September 2023, is permissive but requires confidentiality, prior client consent and undiminished lawyer responsibility. On 1 December 2025 the Constitutional Court fined a lawyer CZK 25,000 for citing non-existent decisions.
As of 2026-09-04, Czechia has 3 binding rules, official guidance in 5 categories, 0 proposals and 1 position set only by case law across the 20 categories in the map. Binding rules cover technological competence, horizontal AI statute, mandatory AI training. In 1 category we found nothing; in 10 the position is not yet determined.
How to read this page
- Binding rule Binding rule means a rule in force from a court, statute, regulator or equivalent authority.
- Official guidance Official guidance means an official non-binding position from a judiciary, regulator, bar or public body.
- Proposed / consultation Proposed / consultation means a public bill, draft rule or consultation that is not yet in force.
- Set by case law Set by case law means no rule was found, but courts have set the position in decisions.
- Nothing found Nothing found means the category was checked and no rule, guidance, proposal or case-law position was found.
- Not yet determined Not yet determined means research did not establish a reliable position yet.
The rules, category by category
The AI Act applies directly. Annex III point 8(a) classifies AI assisting judicial authorities in researching and interpreting facts and law as high-risk; Reg. (EU) 2026/1744 defers those obligations to 2 Dec 2027. Czechia's designated national supervisory authorities were not verified in this session.
AI Act Art. 4 literacy duty applies to Czech firms as deployers since 2 Feb 2025. No domestic CLE rule names AI, but the draft ČAK AI Strategy proposes mandatory AI training for trainee lawyers [koncipienti], expected to be presented September 2026.
ČAK's 2023 Stanovisko treats AI output as unpredictable and potentially inaccurate, and states that using AI leaves the lawyer's statutory and professional responsibility wholly untouched. The Constitutional Court reinforced this in I. ÚS 3004/25, holding counsel fully answerable for hallucinated arguments.
- Stanovisko k užívání umělé inteligence (AI) při poskytování právních služeb 2023-09-20
- Ústavní soud, usnesení sp. zn. I. ÚS 3004/25 — procedural fine for a constitutional complaint citing non-existent decisions 2025-12-01
- ČAK — Stanovisko k užívání umělé inteligence (AI) při poskytování právních služeb (PDF)
- Ústavní soud — I. ÚS 3004/25 (NALUS)
ČAK's Stanovisko (point 5) warns that entering client information into AI tools — including merely to let the tool learn — will most likely breach the statutory duty of confidentiality [povinnost mlčenlivosti] under the Act on Advocacy, and that the lawyer is always responsible for compliance.
ČAK's Stanovisko (point 6) requires prior client consent before processing client information in AI, and specifies its content: the client must expressly acknowledge that AI may behave unpredictably and expressly agree that data — even anonymised — may be shared with unspecified similar systems.
ČAK's Stanovisko (points 2–4) states AI in any form cannot be a provider of legal services under § 1 of the Act on Advocacy; answers resolving a concrete legal problem are reserved legal advice, and website AI implying advice from a qualified lawyer is 'highly inappropriate'.
ČAK issued 'Stanovisko k užívání umělé inteligence (AI) při poskytování právních služeb' (PDF dated 20 Sept 2023, author Martin Maisner), a six-point non-binding opinion. A broader 'Strategie ČAK pro oblast umělé inteligence' was board-approved in structure by 7 July 2026, with formal adoption expected September 2026.
Constitutional Court, I. ÚS 3004/25 (1 Dec 2025), fined counsel Mgr. Pavel Kehl CZK 25,000 — a quarter of the CZK 100,000 maximum, as a first offence — over a constitutional complaint citing non-existent decisions (III. ÚS 2987/18, III. ÚS 3881/18, II. ÚS 2264/14). Anglicisms and inconsistent citation formatting indicated AI drafting.
ÚOOÚ's site was checked on 4 September 2026 and carries no dedicated AI guidance section; its AI coverage relays EDPB output (e.g. a 9 July 2026 item on the EDPB anonymisation and generative-AI web-scraping guidelines). No legal-sector-specific AI guidance found.
Not verified. No Czech court rule requiring disclosure or certification of AI use in filings was encountered, but the civil and constitutional procedure rules could not be checked without search access.
No Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Nejvyšší soud or Ústavní soud guideline on judges' use of generative AI could be checked; usoud.cz refused connection during this session.
Not researched — no discovery search was available. CEPEJ(2025)18Final applies to Czechia as a Council of Europe member but is not a domestic instrument.
Not researched — the session's web-search budget was exhausted before this category could be checked.
Not researched — the session's web-search budget was exhausted before this category could be checked.
Not researched — no Czech rule on supervising AI-assisted work by trainees [koncipienti] or staff could be checked without search access.
Not researched — the session's web-search budget was exhausted before this category could be checked.
Not researched — no published policy on the Czech courts' own AI deployment could be checked; usoud.cz refused connection during this session.
Not researched — no rule of the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce could be checked without search access.
The draft ČAK AI Strategy is reported to include minimum IT standards for lawyers and legal-tech developers, but the text was not public and could not be verified as of 4 September 2026.
Official documents recorded for Czechia (2)
- Ústavní soud, usnesení sp. zn. I. ÚS 3004/25 — procedural fine for a constitutional complaint citing non-existent decisions
Ústavní soud · revised 2025-12-01 · verified 2026-09-04
- Stanovisko k užívání umělé inteligence (AI) při poskytování právních služeb
ČAK · revised 2023-09-20 · verified 2026-09-04
Court incidents on the record in Czechia
- Yichang District Court (Hubei)2026-07-21 Warning
Cite this page
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Czechia" (updated 2026-09-04, verified 2026-09-04), https://safelegalai.com/regulation/country/cz (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
SafeLegalAI is a research publication by Cognesio LLP, not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer–client relationship arises from reading it. Rules change; always check the official document linked on each record and take advice on your own situation. Researched and drafted with AI assistance; verified against primary sources and edited by Cognesio LLP. The linked official documents are the record — our summaries are not the law and are not legal advice.