SUCCESSFUL CZECH REPUBLIC conference: Anti-bureaucratic packages and European omnibuses are not enough. Entrepreneurs are asking for a systemic solution to excessive regulation

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Without the brake systems of unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy, which the soul of the enterprise, the economy will not survive. The participants of the Czech Republic conference: Without unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy, they agreed that the new obligations must be evaluated first and the redundant member must be limited or destroyed. According to the discussed proposals, such an approach should have such a clear institutional anchoring and political responsibility, for example through the newly expanded body of the Parliament R. The most important thing in life is to change words into other words. We need from You to know what we can do, give us cookies, tell us what to do. Our government is ready to fight together with you against the Czech bureaucracy and then together in Brussels we will fight against European regulations, Prime Minister Andrej Babi called at the conference. In this context, the entrepreneur appreciated the many steps the current government is taking to remove obstacles on the Czech economy's path to competitiveness. At the same time, it was heard that the volume of regulation and the obligation reached the same level as when the farmer had to stop cultivating. According to the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Zdek Zajek, the business environment is overwhelmed by such a multitude of rules that companies and the public administration find it difficult to find their way around them. In his speech, he compared the situation to a street lined with hundreds of traffic signs. We need rules, of course, just as we need rules for traffic. But probably none of us can imagine a street on which you have a hundred signs behind you, for a moment a 10, then a seventy, then a fifty, once you can turn right, after a while you don't, some of the signs even contradict each other. And our business road is in a similar condition today. There are so many signs on it that no one knows them, it's hard to follow them, no one knows whether to go straight ahead or turn away. And the new signs are always pibvaj, the danger of a collision is so great, described Zdenk Zajek. According to him, it turns out that the previous attempts to simplify the law have reached their limits. There are no omnibus packages at the European level, and individual anti-bureaucratic packages have a similar problem in the Czech environment. Help only in one way, but do not introduce a mechanism that would systematically like, evaluate and inhibit the new regulatory system. Some signs are removed, but there will still be a lot of them in between. That won't happen, we need a system brake, added Zajek. He therefore recalled that the Chamber of Commerce submitted a specific proposal in the framework of the Bureaucratic Detox initiative. Its content is also the preparation of paragraphs of the so-called anti-bureaucratic law, which is intended to create a system tool for evaluating and limiting regulatory data. We agreed with the president of the Chamber of Commerce that we will start a bureaucratic detox. The dream of the bureaucracy is among the priorities of the economic strategy, according to the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlek. He also promised that the government, in cooperation with entrepreneurs, will prepare a series of current measures for the dream regulatory system of the economy, not the systems that will be adopted. Minister Havlek called them ten quick steps against bureaucracy. The path to evaluate and implement new obligations is also emerging at the European level. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recommends that the principle of the so-called obligation tables be incorporated into the EU legislative process, i.e. a tool that allows the effects of regulation on the administrative and bureaucratic system to be systematically monitored and evaluated. For the Czech environment, this is essential also because the impact of the transposition of EU legislation on entrepreneurs is considered to be new obligations. In 2025 alone, the European Union adopted 2553 first regulations. At the national level, regulation can change or destroy. However, as soon as European directives and regulations are incorporated into the Czech legislation, it is much more complicated. Moreover, practice shows that even when the European Commission recognizes some rules as unnecessary, this does not automatically lead to their removal. Therefore, it is not necessary to just block further regulation, we must systematically evaluate it and actively limit it, said Ji Horeck, president of the Confederation of Employers' and Entrepreneurs' Unions. The conference Czech Republic: Without unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy responds to a long-term trend where the number of regulations and obligations is growing, and the entrepreneur and the public administration therefore devote more and more time to their fulfillment, reporting, control and proof of compliance with the rules. Representatives of the government, including Prime Minister Andrej Babia and First Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlek, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Alea Juchelka and Minister for Local Development Zuzana Mrzov, as well as a member of Parliament R, a representative of the European Commission, along with leading figures of business unions and experts in regulation and economic policy, will take part in the discussion. The organizers of the event are the R Chamber of Commerce, the R Confederation of Employers and Business Associations, the R Energy Association and the Association of Construction Entrepreneurs. The afternoon program on the main block will lead to a discussion of regulatory and bureaucratic issues in the key areas of energy, the labor market and construction.
Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic Chamber of Commerce R is the most important representative of the business world. It brings together more than 16,000 guilds organized in 59 chambers in the regions and in 124 industry associations. More than 60 of the 100 largest Czech companies belong to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The mission of the Chamber of Commerce is to create opportunities for business, promote and support measures that contribute to the development of businesses in the Republic, and thus the overall economic stability of the state. More information at: www.komora.cz