CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE AREA OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND ITS SPECIFICS

The article is focused on the relationship and especially on the mutually affected methods and procedures used by bodies of the state administration in everyday activities, and methods and procedures applied when solving extraordinary events. Despite the fact that the curent legislation (Act No. 239/2000 Coll., on Integrated Rescue System and No. 240/2000 Coll., on Crisis Management) and the following regulations define competencies and duties of individual subjects integrated in the rescue system more or less clearly, it is important to pay greater attention to the professional preparation of state administration employees. The Act No. 239/2000 Coll., on the Integrated Rescue System defines roles of regional authorities and local authorities with extended competencies which focuse on the collection of significant information, creation of materials and technical conditions necessary for solving extraordinary events and also on the creation of crisis plans. Similarly district commissioners and mayors play mainly a coordination role. When developing individual "models" of extraordinary events, it would be useful to specify their duties. Even university research centers could participate on such a task. It would be also useful to check organizational principals of solving extraordinary events from the functional and systemic point of view at certain spans of time.