News

Spotlight issue

15th February 2023 / Competitiveness / Employment and Social Affairs


Information card: employees and wages 2023 - Useful advice for employers

We present to you the publication "Information card: employees and wages", prepared by experts from the payroll accounting department, which focuses on the obligations of employers in the field of personnel and payroll in the Czech Republic.

13th February 2023 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Disproportionate utilization of set electricity and gas prices in the group

The Government Regulation on the determination of electricity and gas prices in an emergency market situation sets maximum prices for these commodities. At the same time, it also sets the maximum permissible extent of the material benefit that a participant in the electricity or gas market can obtain by taking electricity and gas at the set price. The maximum permissible material benefit is calculated for the whole group (within the Czech Republic) taken together.

10th February 2023 / Competitiveness / Energy and Environment


Last year was marked by a decline in the number of used cars to be found on the market

Compared to the previous year, last year was marked by a decline in the number of used cars to be found on the market. Overall, 4.6% fewer cars were offered than in 2021. The nearly new car segment saw an even greater decline, with 16% fewer cars offered year-on-year. A total of 87,512 nearly new cars were advertised in 2021, compared to only 73,482 last year. New technologies in the form of electric and hybrid vehicles are gaining an ever-larger share of the market. 

9th February 2023 / Amcham advocacy news / Technology, R&D and Innovation


AmCham discussed in Brno how business, academics and the government could align


What Brno has that can make it special is a cluster of companies in the region already designing, producing and selling advanced technologies around the world. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Honeywell, onsemi, Y Soft, Garrett - Advancing Motion, CommScope and Gen form a technology base that not many cities can match.

8th February 2023 / Competitiveness / Business and Industry


AmCham Real Estate Council: Supply of residential housing will not grow rapidly also due to uncertainty about the way forward on the new construction law

Land-use policy can be separated roughly into three processes: decisions on land use (or development), creating zoning requirements to facilitate the land use plan, and permitting to ensure that those developing the land abide by zoning requirements (and therefore the land-use plan).

Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy

  1. Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
  2. The City Campus as Idea Factory
  3. Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
  4. Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization

Advocacy Priorities for 2023 
 
Technology, People, Infrastructure

 

Actions Recommended in Areas:

1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.

2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).

3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.

4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.

5. Immigration of STEM Talents.

6. Digitization of Immigration. 

7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.

8. Digitization of Land Use.

9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.

 

 

Read the documents in English and Czech.

Policy pipeline

In Policy Pipeline policy developments in the Czech Republic and abroad are monitored to bring better understanding of current topics and trends.

Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic