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Ministry of Agriculture failed to organize transparent competition for research projects

The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) scrutinized subsidies earmarked for applied agricultural research projects. The ministry of Agriculture spent CZK 1,200 million on the projects during the period 2010–2012. Auditors selected 23 individual projects, which cost CZK 98 million and should have been applied in practice. The SAO concluded that practical applicability of all audited projects could not be ascertained.