The Ministry of the Interior purchased equipment worth CZK 2.4 billion between 2018 and 2022 without taking into account the needs of police officers. The result was surplus supplies on the one hand and a shortage of equipment on the other.
The state spent a total of CZK 36.2 billion on land consolidation between the years 1991 and 2023. By the end of 2023, comprehensive land consolidation had been completed in one quarter of the 12,232 cadastral territories.
In the twenty years that the Czech Republic has been a member of the EU, the difference between revenues from and contributions to the European budget, the so-called net position of the Czech Republic, has reached CZK one trillion.
Even after 16 years and the expenditure of hundreds of millions of Czech crowns, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, together with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Health have not completed the transformation of the system of care for children at risk that they began already in 2009.
People living in socially excluded localities face long-term unemployment, material and housing distress, foreclosures, indebtedness and low education. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) has spent CZK 2.8 billion from the Operational Programme Employment to address these problems and to increase the employability of these people.
Almost one-third of the length of Class I roads, which are mainly intended for long-distance and interstate transport, were in a substandard and disrepair condition in our country between 2021 and 2023.
The Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2022 cost a total of CZK 2.033 billion. Of this, the Office of the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spent a total of CZK 913.7 million on the Presidency.
In 2019 and 2020, two European directives, ATAD and DAC6, were introduced into the Czech legal system to prevent corporate tax evasion. The Supreme Audit Office examined whether the introduction of these directives into Czech law has reduced corporate income tax evasion and made the administration of corporate income tax more efficient.
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.
Even after ten years, selected key IT projects in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) were not yet completed in February this year.
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.
