The Chamber of Deputies passed today a bill that amends the Act on Criminal Liability of Corporations. The intent of the draft amendment is to replace a list comprising a limited number of criminal acts by a list of criminal acts with which legal persons cannot be charged. This approach should cover a much wider range of criminal breaches, the proponents suggested. Since 2012, when the act took effect, there were 468 criminal proceedings opened with legal entities (22 in 2012 compared with 207 in 2015).     

The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech Parliament, greenlighted draft act on Public Procurement today. The bill is heading to the upper house, the Senate. The opposition parties, including representatives of mayors claim that the bill will “help” use Kc billions of public money without public control.