On Monday 22 January 2024, the President of the Supreme Audit Office and EUROSAI, Miloslav Kala, met with the Comptroller and General Auditor of the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom, Gareth Davies, at the new headquarters of the SAO.
Winner of winners was the motto of the 5th edition of the Public Administration Hackathon www.hackujstat.cz, which took place on Friday and Saturday 19 and 20 January 2024 at the Prague headquarters of the event organiser - the Supreme Audit Office.
Over the last seven years (2016 to 2023), the SAO has already carried out five audits focused on funds earmarked for housing support.
The SAO audited how the Ministry of Finance, the General Financial Directorate and selected Tax Offices managed excessive value added tax deductions in the years 2019-2022.
The SAO auditors examined how the Ministry of Transport and the Road and Motorway Directorate used state funds earmarked for the preparation, construction and operation of the D4 motorway.
Support from the Antivirus programme, the main purpose of which was to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment in the Czech Republic, was also given to companies whose net sales and profits were growing and whose number of employees was increasing at the time of the spread of the disease.
Today, the SAO publishes its 16th report on the financial management of EU funds in the Czech Republic - the EU Report.
The new headquarters of the SAO in Prague Holešovice won the title of Construction of the Year 2023 in this year's 31st edition of the competition of the Foundation for the Development of Architecture and Construction.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) audited the data of the final account, accounting and financial statements of the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) for the year 2022.
Although the D35 motorway between Hradec Králové and Olomouc is one of the most important parts of the Czech motorway network, its construction is delayed and more expensive.
Over the last eleven years - from 2011 to 2022 - road safety has increased in the Czech Republic. The number of people killed in road accidents has fallen by 35.8% and the number of people seriously injured by 43.9%.
A total of CZK 24.1 billion spent on the construction of sewers in municipalities contributed to the expansion of the sewerage network in the Czech Republic.
Between 2017 and 2021, EU and state funds earmarked for palliative care in the Czech Republic, i.e. care for terminally ill patients, have led to an improvement in the availability of home palliative care, palliative care in hospitals and hospices, and to an increase in its quality.
The digitalisation of health care has been delayed and its key components are still missing. The Ministry of Health has not yet provided a single, secure communication environment for health service providers to share health data.
In the three decades of its existence, the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) has carried out 1,113 audits with 12,066 auditees and examined state property and finances worth CZK 6.3 trillion.
On Wednesday, September 20, Mr Radek Rychnovský, a new Member of the SAO Board, took the oath to the Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, and thus assumed his position.
Purchases of external services without assessing their economic efficiency; non-fulfilment of research intentions; overestimated number of users of technical standards and expensive sponsored access to them; payment of wages instead of salaries.
On Wednesday, September 13, the deputies elected Mr Radek Rychnovský a new Member of the SAO Board by secret ballot. 100 deputies out of 166, who were present at the election, voted for him.
In 2022, the Czech Republic continued the trend of being the fastest-rising indebted country, reaching the fifth highest inflation rate in the EU, and experiencing the most significant decline in real wages in Czech history.