Prague Municipal Court had significant deficiencies in the 2017 accounts
The Supreme Audit Office has verified the accounting and the preparation of the financial statements of the Prague Municipal Court (PMC) for 2017.
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The Ministry of Culture distributed aid for cultural activities without any system and in a non-transparent way
The Supreme Audit Office has examined the resources allocated by the Ministry of Culture (MoC) for cultural activities, such as dance, theatre, literature, music, or visual arts between 2016 and 2018.
Digital education: schools lack money and MoEYS does not perform its key tasks
The Supreme Audit Office has examined measures and projects that were supposed to support the development of digital education in primary and secondary schools between 2011 and 2018.
The management of the Czech Mining Authority did not show any major problems
The Czech Supreme Audit Office examined the management of the Czech Mining Authority in the years 2015 to 2018.
Freight water transport: the State has already paid CZK 927 million for the failing shipping points on the Elbe. The number of goods transported by water remains negligible
The Supreme Audit Office has examined how the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Directorate of Waterways (DoW) have used funds for the development of waterways and water transport in the Czech Republic since 2014.
The SAO and the German Bundesrechnungshof summarized the findings of the coordinated e-commerce tax audit: the system has a number of shortcomings, the collection of VAT is complex
The Supreme Audit Office and the German Bundesrechnungshof scrutinized the VAT collected from e-commerce.
Auditors from EU countries discussed the subject of VAT in Prague
On 27 and 28 June 2019, the annual meeting of the Core Group 2 of the Working Group on Value Added Tax of the Contact Committee was held at the headquarters of the Supreme Audit Office.
The promotion of crime prevention has only had general objectives. What it has brought concretely is mostly impossible to assess.
The Supreme Audit Office examined the funds provided by the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Defence for crime prevention between 2015 and 2018.
Emerging Technologies are one of the Challenges of Future Cooperation among Supreme Audit Institutions
The Supreme Audit Institutions of the European region and their uniting organisation EUROSAI have identified the need to collaborate in the development of emerging technologies as one of the key challenges for the future by gradually introducing the latest technological solutions into..
The Ministry of Defence did not have enough basic equipment for soldiers in 2015 and 2016. Its purchase planning was amiss.
The Supreme Audit Office examined how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had acted in the planning, acquisition, and delivery of the Czech Army’s equipment in the years 2015-2017.
Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions from 12 European Countries Will Meet in Latvia
There will be a meeting of 12 Heads of supreme audit institutions of the European region to discuss the future tasks of public sector auditing at the Governing Board meeting of the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) in Latvia next week.
Management of the Military Health Insurance Company: errors in both the register of the insured and in the award of public procurement. Internal control system did not work
The Supreme Audit Office examined how the Military Health Insurance Company (in Czech “Vojenská zdravotní pojišťovna” or “VoZP”) had managed resources allocated to public health insurance from 2015 to 2017.
Intelligent transport systems: construction of high speed scales is delayed, there are also shortcomings in the way the Ministry of Transport managed the construction of systems
The Supreme Audit Office focused on how the Ministry of Transport (MoT) had managed and, together with the Road and Motorway Directorate (RMD), had introduced selected road Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) between 2012 and 2018.
ICT in tax administration: non-competitive procedures and discrimination against tenderers in tenders worth CZK 428 million, and increased dependence on suppliers
The Supreme Audit Office focused on the procurement and use of ICT to support the tax management in the Czech Republic.
National subsidies for livestock production have been rising over a long period. The objectives of pork production and of number of animals are not met
The Supreme Audit Office examined subsidies to support the livestock production distributed between 2014 and 2017.
Czech and Slovak auditors will jointly review social security insurance management
On 9 and 10 April 2019, representatives of the Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic and of the Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic met for a planned cooperative audit on social security contributions.
Fighting poverty and social exclusion in Prague with EU support: almost half of the assessed projects have been found ineffective, benefits are unclear
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) examined the European funds distributed by the capital city Prague to combat poverty and to support social inclusion from 2014 to 2017.
The SAO assesses the functioning of the Czech Republic in its Annual Report. The state is ‘blocked’ and got stuck in many areas
The Supreme Audit Office issued its Annual Report 2018, which not only summarises its findings from audits, but also assesses the state’s approach in selected policies and fields of management.
The State did not dispose of precise information about subsidies distributed to non-profit organisations
The Supreme Audit Office examined the subsidies from the state budget which had been distributed to the non-government non-profit organisations (NGOs) by the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and by four ministries — the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture — between 2016 and 2017.
The MoF disclosed non-existent receivables linked to European funds. On the other hand, the reporting of provisions for ecological burden remediation is positive.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) examined the accounting of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for 2017.