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(Law No. 185/2015 English translation, Part two, Section 5)

"a) idea, manner, system, method, concept, principle, discovery or information that has been expressed, described, explained, depicted or incorporated into a work,
b) a text of legislation, a decision of public authority or a court decision, technical norm, including draft materials and translations thereof
c) land-use planning documents
d) state symbol, municipality symbol, symbol of self-governing region; this does not apply to a work which formed ground for creating of such symbol,
e) speech presented in discussions on public affairs
f) daily news; daily news is information on event or circumstance; where a work informing about daily news or a work in which daily news is included, is not considered as daily news,
g) work of traditional folk culture,
h) result of activity of expert, interpreter or translator acting under special law."

(Law No. 121/2000, Article 3, Section a)

“Protection pursuant to this Act shall not apply to

• an official work, such as a legal regulation, decision, public charter, publicly accessible register and the collection of its records, and also
• an official draft of an official work and other preparatory official documentation including the official translation of such work,
• Chamber of Deputies and Senate publications,
• a memorial chronicle of a municipality (muncipal chronicle),
• a state symbol and symbol of a regional self-governing unit,
• and other such works where there is public interest in their exclusion from copyright protection.”