The new headquarters of the SAO in Prague Holešovice won the title of Construction of the Year 2023 in this year's 31st edition of the competition of the Foundation for the Development of Architecture and Construction.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) audited the data of the final account, accounting and financial statements of the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) for the year 2022.
Although the D35 motorway between Hradec Králové and Olomouc is one of the most important parts of the Czech motorway network, its construction is delayed and more expensive.
Over the last eleven years - from 2011 to 2022 - road safety has increased in the Czech Republic. The number of people killed in road accidents has fallen by 35.8% and the number of people seriously injured by 43.9%.
A total of CZK 24.1 billion spent on the construction of sewers in municipalities contributed to the expansion of the sewerage network in the Czech Republic.
Between 2017 and 2021, EU and state funds earmarked for palliative care in the Czech Republic, i.e. care for terminally ill patients, have led to an improvement in the availability of home palliative care, palliative care in hospitals and hospices, and to an increase in its quality.
The digitalisation of health care has been delayed and its key components are still missing. The Ministry of Health has not yet provided a single, secure communication environment for health service providers to share health data.
In the three decades of its existence, the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) has carried out 1,113 audits with 12,066 auditees and examined state property and finances worth CZK 6.3 trillion.
On Wednesday, September 20, Mr Radek Rychnovský, a new Member of the SAO Board, took the oath to the Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, and thus assumed his position.
Purchases of external services without assessing their economic efficiency; non-fulfilment of research intentions; overestimated number of users of technical standards and expensive sponsored access to them; payment of wages instead of salaries.
On Wednesday, September 13, the deputies elected Mr Radek Rychnovský a new Member of the SAO Board by secret ballot. 100 deputies out of 166, who were present at the election, voted for him.
In 2022, the Czech Republic continued the trend of being the fastest-rising indebted country, reaching the fifth highest inflation rate in the EU, and experiencing the most significant decline in real wages in Czech history.
The Supreme Audit Office focused on the funds earmarked for the preservation and restoration of cultural monuments distributed by the Ministry of Culture between 2019 and 2022.
The Ministry of Health distributed extraordinary contributions of CZK 4.8 billion to three directly managed university hospitals to discharge the debts, for renumeration for workers at risk of COVID-19 and for the operation of a backup field hospital in Prague – Letňany, without monitoring their use.
The Supreme Audit Office audited the data of the closing account, bookkeeping and financial statements of the Ministry of Agriculture for the year 2022.
A total of CZK 843.3 million earmarked by the end of 2022 to support fisheries in the Czech Republic from the OP "Fisheries 2014-2020" was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture efficiently, economically and in accordance with legal regulations.
The Supreme Audit Office audited data of the closing account, bookkeeping and preparation of the financial statements of the State Office for Nuclear Safety for the year 2022.
The Supreme Audit Office focused on funds provided by the Ministry of Industry and Trade for institutional support of research organisations between the years 2018 and 2022.
On June 20th 2023, President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel appointed Jan Málek to the post of the Vice President of the Supreme Audit Office.
When examining state funds related to the competence of state authorities in the field of gambling and the efficiency of the administration of taxes collected from these games, the auditors of the Supreme Audit Office found that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) did not provide information support for the efficient administration of the gambling tax, the control of tax returns of the operators of these games nor for supervision.
