SAO audit: money for publicity and promotion contributed to increased public awareness of EU funds
European programmes and projects, for which the Czech Republic also draws considerable sums from European funds, must also be well promoted.
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The SAO President at meeting with Ambassadors: Next European subsidies should lead to strengthening of EU competitiveness
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.
The 6th edition of the Public Administration Hackathon: In 24 hours, apps were created to help with business and leisure
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.
Digitalisation of libraries is successful, but the Ministry of Culture has been making mistakes in subsidies
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...
More than a billion of state financial aid helped to regenerate 122 brownfields. Yet, the SAO found a number of shortcomings
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.
SAO Member Daniel Reisiegel becomes an Expert Member of the OECD Audit Committee
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.
The state and the EU gave CZK 9.5 billion to municipalities for the construction and reconstruction of pavements. It has, however, often failed to improve safety
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.
Efficiency of purchases of police equipment worth CZK 2.4 billion: there are enough women's jackets in warehouses nearly for the next 50 years, other equipment is in short supply
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.
SAO: It will take almost CZK 150 billion and 50 years to complete the land consolidation process. But it is the state which will fully cover the costs.
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.
Twenty years of the Czech Republic in the EU: we have learnt to draw on European subsidies, but we are spreading them over many projects without any significant effect
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.
Transformation of the system of care for children at risk: the number of children in institutional care has not substantially decreased, foster care is increasing only slowly
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.
The MoLSA spent CZK 2.8 billion to address the situation of people living in socially excluded localities. The support helped them only in a limited and short-term way
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.
Repairs and maintenance of Class I roads cost CZK 62.5 billion. A third of these roads remained in a substandard and disrepair state
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 Office of the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs financed the Czech EU Council Presidency without material shortcomings - with one exception
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.
The impact of the new directives to prevent tax evasion cannot be quantified. There are no suitable source data
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. This has a negative impact on the health of the population
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 paid CZK 1.2 billion to increase employment of disadvantaged people. However, it is not possible to assess whether the support actually helped them
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.
SAO audit: mental health centres are scarce, there is a lack of professional staff, funding is not ensured
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 SAO President's Award was presented to four notable figures including the director of Cermat, Miroslav Krejčí
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.
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to fully remedy the shortcomings of earlier SAO audits. Of the 11 measures, four were not implemented at all and two only partially
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to fully remedy the shortcomings of earlier SAO audits. Of the 11 measures, four were not implemented at all and two only partially