The amendment to the Public Procurement Act (hereinafter referred to as the "PPA") was published in the Collection of Laws under No. 166/2023 Coll. on 16 June 2023 and will come into force on the 30th day after its publication, i.e. on 16 July 2023. Similarly to previous amendments to the public procurement legislation, procurement procedures initiated before the amendment comes into force will be completed in accordance with the existing wording of the PPA.

New regulation took effect recently. Suppliers are invited to ask and get answers about what does new policy of responsibility in public procurement mean for them and what requirements are typically considered as responsible public procurement, or how is responsible procurement measured and controlled. Organized by the Institute of responsible public procurement at the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.  

After being returned by the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic approved on December  1, 2020 an amendment to Act No. 134/2016 Coll., On Public Procurement, as amended, which de facto introduces the obligation of socially and environmentally responsible public procurement from 1 January 2021.