Czech Point network to be launched on January 1, 2008

The Czech Senate has recommended that a network of contact spots called "Czech Point" be launched on January 1st next year, a couple of months earlier than originally planned. The network is meant to enable people to obtain extracts from the land registry and the commercial and criminal registries at their local post offices and town halls, rather than having to travel to centralised bureaus in regional capitals. The network is to include some 1,300 town halls and 2,000 post offices around the Czech Republic. Thirty Czech Point spots are already operating in a pilot project.