Who you deal with
The State Navigation Administration, under the 1995 Inland Navigation Act and four implementing decrees.
At twelve passengers
A national small-vessel licence, which takes weeks and costs very little. Czechia is landlocked, so the inland regime is the only regime that applies.
At twenty passengers
A Union inland navigation certificate against ES-TRIN chapter 19, which is then valid on every inland waterway in the European Union.
Who may drive it
We have not established this against an official source, and we would rather say so than guess. Tell us you need it and we will read the rules properly before you commit.
Hiring it out without a crew
We found no separate lighter route for hire without a crew. The general small-vessel decree and the rental provisions would govern it.
Where the engine matters
Off the main rivers a 10 kW power cap and displacement-speed running apply, which closes the Czech reservoirs to this boat entirely. Prague, the Vltava and the Labe are open, and that is where the market is. Above twelve passengers on this country's inland waterways, petrol is not an admissible fuel at all, so the twenty-passenger inland configuration would need a different form of propulsion. This does not apply at sea, and it does not apply at twelve passengers.