The Czech Republic is still struggling with deteriorated air quality. Immission limits have not been respected in parts of the country for a long time and are significantly exceeded in some regions, with negative impacts on the health of the population.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has spent a total of CZK 1.2 billion between 2016 and 2022 to increase the employment of disadvantaged people, such as people with low qualifications, people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed, people over the age of 50, people caring for young children or other dependents, without specifying what kind of change is to be achieved.
The SAO focused on the audit of European subsidies earmarked specifically for the establishment and pilot operation of the mental health centres in the Czech Republic.
The President of the Supreme Audit Office, Miloslav Kala, presented the SAO President's Award on Thursday 3 October 2024 at the SAO headquarters in Prague.
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to fully remedy the shortcomings of earlier SAO audits. Of the 11 measures, four were not implemented at all and two only partially
On Thursday 26 September 2024, Ladislava Slancová, a new Member of the Board of the Supreme Audit Office, took the oath of office in the hands of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, and thus assumed her new position.
The Supreme Audit Office audited the closing account, accounting and financial statements of the Ministry of Regional Development for the year 2023.
The new member of the SAO Board will be the current Director of the SAO Internal Audit Department Ing. Ladislava Slancová, MPA.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 Supreme Audit Office focused on how the Ministry of Culture spent funds to support cultural activities between 2019 and 2022.
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.
The system of basic registers does not meet the increasing requirements for the level of digitalisation of public administration.
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 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.
