Between the years 2022 and 2024, the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (abbreviated as IKEM in Czech) repeatedly violated both laws and its own regulations when managing assets and public funds. This was revealed in an audit of the Supreme Audit Office (SAO), which examined 102 cases involving the management of funds totalling CZK 905.3 million.
State-funded healthcare research yields tangible results in practice. However, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has long failed to evaluate the actual impact of the research it supports. These findings come from an audit by the Supreme Audit Office (SAO), which examined more than CZK 9 billion allocated to healthcare research and development between the years 2020 and 2024.
In 2025, the economy of the Czech Republic grew faster than the EU average. Yet, at the same time, the national debt continued to rise. Gross domestic product (GDP) went up by 2.6%, while the EU economy average stood at 1.5%. Efforts to address the weaknesses threatening the country’s future competitiveness were unsuccessful. The mentioned economic growth was driven primarily by higher household consumption. Last year, the national debt amounted to…
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) reviewed the closing account and accounting of the Labour Office (LO) of the Czech Republic, as well as the information that the LO submitted for the evaluation of budget implementation for the year 2025.
Digital and Information Agency (DIA) reported some of its assets incorrectly. Most of the other shortcomings were corrected during the audit.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) reviewed the data in the closing account, accounting, and financial statements of the Czech Statistical Office (CSO) for the year 2025.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) reviewed the data in the closing account, accounting, and financial statements of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR) for the year 2025.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) strongly objects to the decision adopted by the Government of the Czech Republic on 27 July 2026 to remove the SAO headquarters from the list of buildings protected by the Police of the Czech Republic, on the grounds that the SAO building represents the "lowest level of security risk."
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) reviewed the data in the closing account, accounting, and the financial statements of the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Czech Republic (OPDP) for the year 2025.
Various programmes funded by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) between 2018 and 2025 were intended to reduce energy consumption in Czech industry and services, increase power generation from renewable sources, and lower the energy performance of buildings of state organisations. An audit by the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) revealed that set targets had not been met.
The new SAO Board Member, Petr Přikryl (aged 52) took his oath of office on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, before Tomio Okamura, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and thus assumed his new position.
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.
