The single market, globalisation, and technological changes have led to rapid growth in e-commerce. Imports of low-value shipments worth less than EUR 150 are growing particularly fast.
The liquidation of state-owned enterprises under the authority of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has been ongoing for more than 20 years.
High-quality, well-supported data are essential for planning and decision-making. Yet not everyone makes use of them in their work. This is evident, for example, in the use of state accounting information. While statisticians and macroeconomists find state accounting data useful, ministries themselves rarely use these data to inform their decisions.
State accounting can do more than the state currently uses it for. The data is of high quality, yet decisions based on it are lacking, according to the Supreme Audit Office and the Prague University of Economics and Business.
Between 2015 and last year, lorry traffic on Czech motorways increased by 35%. This growth has brought a corresponding demand for parking spaces. However, there is a shortage of them at motorway rest areas.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) announces that, at the end of October 2025, it received consent from the law enforcement authorities to publish Audit Report No 22/32.
The State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC) spends a significant portion of its operating budget on electronic prescriptions that doctors send to patients via SMS messages. In 2024, the SIDC paid more than CZK 33 million for SMS prescriptions – almost one fifth of its total operating expenses.
To support forestry, the state allocated a total of CZK 32.7 billion from European and national sources from 2014 to 2024.
European subsidies in the Czech Republic are scattered across many areas, with support often invested in tens of thousands of small projects that are unnecessary from the perspective of the national economy, do not bring the necessary added value, and do not have the potential to steer the Czech economy towards permanent and sustainable economic growth or increased competitiveness.
On Wednesday, 24 September 2025, a company and its Executive Director were convicted of fraudulently obtaining approximately EUR 220,000 (CZK 5.5 million) from EU funds for a dust reduction project.
How did the Czech Republic's economy fare in 2024? At first glance, some indicators are optimistic compared to 2023: inflation fell to 2.4%, unemployment remained the lowest in the EU, and the state budget deficit was CZK 10.6 billion lower than the planned deficit of CZK 282 billion.
In 2014, the Electrotechnical Testing Institute (ETI) began preparations for the construction of a new building, even though it did not have secured financing for the project – it relied on a subsidy, the conditions for which it did not meet.
Although university hospitals (UH) are a fundamental part of the backbone network of hospitals in the Czech Republic and an irreplaceable provider of healthcare services, including highly specialised care, they are located in outdated facilities and buildings that do not meet the current requirements of modern medicine.
The Supreme Audit Office (SAO) has reviewed the Czech Telecommunication Office’s (CTO) closing account, accounting, financial statements, and the information submitted by the CTO for the evaluation of state budget implementation for 2024.
The Supreme Audit Office has reviewed the closing account, accounting, the financial statements and the data submitted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for the evaluation of the state budget implementation for 2024.
Illegal employment, where employers do not pay taxes, social security contributions, and public health insurance, and employees receive unregistered wages, has a significant negative impact on state budget revenues in addition to its impact on the employees themselves.
Although the Czech Republic has set itself the goal of becoming an innovation leader in its innovation strategy for 2030, it is failing to meet this target compared to other European Union countries.
The Supreme Audit Office has reviewed the closing account, accounting, and financial statements of the Ministry of Culture for the year 2024.
Digital technical maps lack reliable information about the locations of gas pipelines, water pipes, sewer systems, electrical and communication cables, and other elements of technical infrastructure.
In an audit of the Energy Regulatory Office's (ERO) management of selected state assets and funds totalling CZK 114 million, the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) did not find any material shortcomings.
