For eight years now, the Czech Police Aviation Service should have been operating at least three new light helicopters to provide a 24-hour search and rescue standby service, as well as at least two heavy-lift helicopters capable of transporting entire specialist police or fire brigade units.
The new Member of the SAO Board will be Petr Přikryl (aged 52), an attorney-at-law. Members of Parliament elected him in a secret ballot on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, with 89 of the 159 members present voting in favour of his election.
The support provided by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) between the years 2019 and 2025 has contributed to the development of clean mobility — that is, low-emission transportation — in the Czech Republic. However, the number of electric vehicles in the Czech Republic continues to lag behind the European average.
Miloslav Kala, President of the Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic, and HE Humaid Obaid Abushibs, Chairman of the UAE Accountability Authority, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday, 18 June 2026, at the SAO headquarters in Prague to promote cooperation in the field of public sector auditing.
The SAO Board Members, Radovan Suchánek (aged 53) and Josef Kott (aged 55), took their oaths of office on Thursday, 18 June 2026, before Tomio Okamura, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and thus assumed their new positions.
Unlike in many other EU countries, the railway signalling systems in the Czech Republic were outdated and did not allow for the control of train movements or the ability to intervene in their operation. The ongoing gradual integration of the European Train Control System (ETCS) onto Czech railways is expected to bring about a positive change.
The aim of public investment is to strengthen the economic development and competitiveness of the country. The government spends hundreds of billions of crowns on investments every year. In 2025 alone, that figure exceeded CZK 400 billion. Yet the management of public investments has long been failing.
The multi-year drought from 2015 to 2018 highlighted the problem of poor stormwater management in urbanised areas of the Czech Republic. Subsidies* from the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) totalling CZK 1.8 billion were intended to help improve this management.
The new Members of the SAO Board will be attorney Radovan Suchánek (aged 53) and Member of Parliament Josef Kott (aged 55). Members of Parliament elected them in a secret ballot on Wednesday, 27 May 2026, with 102 MPs voting for Radovan Suchánek and 131 MPs voting for Josef Kott out of the 166 MPs present.
Between 2020 and 2023, the Czech Republic received funds from the European REACT-EU investment instrument to support recovery from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Czech government decided that most of these funds would be used for healthcare projects.
The Czech Republic is not yet equipped to effectively build the high-speed rail network it plans to complete around 2050.
“In the European Union’s economy, we have ceased to respect economic principles. Sustainability, as the EU conceives it, is at odds with rising debt. We are taking on more and more debt, thereby depleting the resources of future generations.” This was stated by Miloslav Kala, President of the Supreme Audit Office (SAO), on Wednesday, 22 April 2026, at the now-traditional meeting with EU Ambassadors.
Ministries are not managing their equity interests in commercial companies in accordance with the State Ownership Policy Strategy. The government approved this Strategy in 2020 in response to an earlier audit by the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) from 2015, with the aim of ensuring transparent and effective exercise of ownership rights.
In practice, central government accounting is used only to a limited extent and financial reporting could be simplified. This was stated by the Supreme Audit Office and the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the Prague University of Economics and Business, the authors of a joint report which was presented today at an expert conference on the use of central government accounting.
Despite high investments, the state has failed to modernise key areas of its operations. The digitalisation of public administration often merely transfers complex processes to an online environment without truly simplifying them. While the state is building new highways, it has not implemented effective tools to mitigate the damage caused primarily by overloaded freight traffic.
According to its own statement, the Ministry of Regional Development considers the renovation of local roads to be a local issue. Nevertheless, from 2019 through February 2025, it provided municipalities with subsidies totalling CZK 4.7 billion from the state budget for this renovation, supporting a total of 2,150 projects
Over the past 27 years, floods have caused a total of 260 billion crowns in damage in the Czech Republic. Flood control measures are intended to prevent extensive damage. The Supreme Audit Office audited CZK 7.1 billion spent by the Ministry of Agriculture between the years 2020 and 2024 on flood protection and water retention in the landscape.
Deepening cooperation and sharing experience among Supreme Audit Institutions affiliated with EUROSAI was the theme of a two-day conference held on Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 and 11 March 2026, at the SAO headquarters in Prague.
Assisting with health problems, finding care for the infirm, helping in the event of imminent outdoor danger or creating a tool to help doctors in their work. These are the predominant themes of the winners of the seventh annual nationwide Public Administration Hackathon.
Almost 61% of civil service authorities* failed to implement the required minimum standard for effective authority management within the set deadline. The desired digitalisation of civil servant training and of the civil service examinations has not been achieved.
