Advocacy Task Forces
Advocacy team identifies and responds to issues of concern to the business community that can be resolved by a legislative & regulatory change. Based on members input, we comment and propose new laws, amendments or position papers and advocate them with the representatives of Government, Ministries, Parliament, political parties and policy associations.
Our major past successes:
- Insolvency Act
- Commercial Registry reform
- capping the Social Security Contributions
- Amendment to Act on Public Procurement (via the Platform for Transparent Public Procurement, which combined the efforts of more than 30 political parties, government offices, or private sector associations to help draft the government approved reforms of the Act on Public Procurement from 2008)
According to ´4 Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy´ we pursue four strategic directions aimed at increasing GDP per capita by 60% by 2025:
- The home of value-added manufacturing
- Prague-Brno-Ostrava Creative Triangle
- Health Care as an export industry
- Government as a competitive advantage
>> View AmCham CZ: Economic Development Priorities 2018-2020 (click here for Czech version)
AmCham also established CzechCompete.cz, a platform for debating and advocating improvements in competitiveness and economic policy in the Czech Republic. It features data, policy proposals, interviews and opinions contributed by policymakers from public sector, associations, businesses and academia. Our Policy Pipeline brings current policy developments from the Czech Republic and EU.
Work with us on establishing a working group on key competitiveness issues, attend the issue roundtables with government decision-makers to ensure that your views are heard directly. Consult the advocacy team about area of your interest, join our committees and discuss currently drafted legislation or learn more at our events and meetings & from our monitoring service. Our committees address labor & social affairs, tax, real estate, civil & commercial law issues, or developments in the fields of energy efficiency and health care, for example. Contact person: Weston Stacey, wstacey@amcham.cz.
News
7.07.2020
Government Restrictions of Activities inside the Czech Republic
State of Emergency was declared on March 12 and was terminated on May 17, 2020. The government announced on May 11 they were not planning to ask the Chamber of Deputies for extension of the state of emergency.
Last update on July 7, 2020.
7.07.2020
Government Restrictions for Crossing the Border of the Czech Republic
Last update on July 7, 2020.
26.06.2020
Government Measures Supporting Employment or Individual Economic Revenue
The list of Government measures supporting employment or individual economic revenue. Last update June 26, 2020.
22.06.2020
The EU recovery aims to save the economy, and change politics
The proposed EU recovery program represents an attempt to transform the power relationship between the EU and its member states, and its influence over the economic development of the continent. This is more than an argument over which member state gets the best slice of the pie: this is an attempt to shift the power of economic policy making to the Commission and to introduce the power of the EU to collect tax revenue from EU citizens.
22.06.2020
Other Government Measures Supporting Economy
The list of Government measures supporting Economy. Last update June 22, 2020.
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