The report contains findings from 29 audits completed last year at a total of 127 institutions. It examined finances and assets worth a total of CZK 83 billion.
European programmes and projects, for which the Czech Republic also draws considerable sums from European funds, must also be well promoted.
At the traditional meeting of SAO representatives with EU Ambassadors held the SAO President Miloslav Kala spoke about the current use of EU subsidies and how they should be used in the next programming period 2028+ to increase the competitiveness of EU countries.
On Friday and Saturday, 7 and 8 March 2025, participants of the 6th edition of the Public Administration Hackathon demonstrated how open data can contribute to the development of new applications and websites that improve citizens' daily lives.
The SAO's audit focused on the money spent between 2017 and 2023 to support the digitalisation of libraries showed that the Ministry of Culture directed the funds to the real needs of libraries, but set the digitalisation objectives very generally...
Between 2019 and 2023, state financial aid of CZK 1.1 billion led to the regeneration of 122 brownfields out of a total of 979 which are exclusively publicly owned.
In mid-December last year, the Council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved the appointment of the SAO Member Mr Daniel Reisiegel.
Between the years 2014 and 2023, a state and EU financial aid amounting to CZK 9.5 billion was provided to municipalities for the construction and reconstruction of pavements and footpaths.
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.
