Press Releases

In six years, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has supported the regeneration of less than a tenth of registered brownfields

At the beginning of this year, a total of 4,349 of these unused, neglected and in some cases contaminated properties (areas, sites, land plots or buildings) were registered in the National Brownfields Database in the Czech Republic.

State finances in 2023: second highest inflation in the EU, high velocity of debt rate and real GDP decline

The average inflation rate in the Czech Republic reached 12% last year, the second highest in the EU. The debt rate velocity of the Czech Republic was also the second highest in the EU.

SAO audit: Material accounting irregularities amounting to CZK 15.6 billion corrected by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, data are reliable

The Supreme Audit Office audited the closing account, accounting and financial statements of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic for the year 2023.

State support was to lead to increased transport of goods by rail or water. Instead, road freight transport is growing

State and EU subsidies for the development of combined freight transport were intended to increase the transport of goods by rail or water and reduce road freight transport.

The 2023 Financial statements of the Industrial Property Office are reliable except for one material irregularity

The Supreme Audit Office examined the data of the closing account, accounting and financial statements of the Industrial Property Office (IPO) for the year 2023 and found no material irregularities.

With the cancellation of the electronic sales registration, tax administrators have lost one of the tools for targeted investigation of tax evasion

In the fight against tax evasion, two new tools were introduced in the Czech Republic in 2016 - the VAT Control Statement from January and the electronic sales registration (ESR) from December.

SAO audit: The Ministry of Transport corrected material accounting irregularities in the amount of CZK 24.6 billion

The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) audited the data of the closing account, accounting and financial statements of the Ministry of Transport (MoT) for the year 2023. The auditors also focused on the data submitted by the MoT for the evaluation of the state budget implementation.

The Ministry of Culture distributed more than CZK 3 billion in subsidies. However, the complex system complicates the work of applicants and the Ministry itself

The Supreme Audit Office focused on how the Ministry of Culture spent funds to support cultural activities between 2019 and 2022.

Management of the Ministry of the Interior Public Health Insurance Fund: partial errors in individual funds, concerning for example public procurement and management of receivables

The Supreme Audit Office focused on the management of the Ministry of the Interior Public Health Insurance Fund with the funds collected on the basis of the law, especially with the money from the collected premiums for public health insurance, in the years 2020 to 2022.

SAO audited billions spent on basic registers: ageing infrastructure has not been renewed and is still lacking zero-downtime operation

The system of basic registers does not meet the increasing requirements for the level of digitalisation of public administration.

After three years, the Supreme Audit Office hands over the EUROSAI Presidency to Israel

After three years of chairing the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions, the Supreme Audit Office President Miloslav Kala will hand over the Presidency to the Supreme Audit Institution of Israel on Monday 27 May 2024.

The expected benefits of the establishment of the National Sports Agency have not materialised: billions in subsidies are not transparent and lack efficiency examination

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the National Sports Agency have spent a total of CZK 26.5 billion from the state budget between 2019 and 2022 to support sport.

The engineer troops are working with outdated and malfunctioning equipment, pontoon bridges cannot support new tanks, but the MoD has postponed most investments in modernisation

The engineer troops play an irreplaceable role in the combat support of the Czech Armed Forces. However, some of their equipment is obsolete, long past its service life, malfunctioning or lacks the required technical parameters.

SAO Annual Report 2023: Czech Republic Not Sufficiently Prepared for Crises

Amidst the deteriorating security situation in the world, the Czech Republic is not sufficiently prepared for crises and emergencies.

CZK 431 million worth of support for tourism in the regions: even inefficient and uneconomical projects subsidised

More than CZK 431 million were spent from the state budget on the National Programme for Supporting Tourism in Regions 2016-2023 from 2016 to July 2023.

Almost CZK 16 billion for rural development: impact of the support cannot be assessed, projects supported without specific objectives, incorrect data in reports from beneficiaries

The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) focused on the state and EU funds spent on the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020.

The Ministry of Defence has not purchased the necessary equipment for the Chemical Army. It has not even completed the construction of the Těchonín Biological Protection Centre

The Ministry of Defence did not ensure the necessary renewal and modernisation of the Czech Armed Forces’ chemical equipment in 2018-2022.

European subsidies were the main topic of the regular meeting of the Supreme Audit Office representatives with EU Ambassadors

Member of the Board of the Supreme Audit Office Roman Procházka has died

We are deeply saddened to announce that a Member of the Board of the Supreme Audit Office(SAO), Roman Procházka, has suddenly passed away at the age of fifty-five

Removal of old environmental burdens is still slow, it has not accelerated even in recent years and the state has already paid CZK 66.2 billion for it

Last year, after six years, the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) resumed auditing old environmental burdens caused by the activities of former state-owned enterprises in the period before their privatisation.