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)
  • Big Bets concept (Czechia can be the leading innovative economy in Europe. Innovation means risk. Czechia has to place big bet on its own talent and capabilities - applied in major investments in cutting-edge technology development & production in the territory of the Czech Republic)
  • Immigration policy (highly qualified workforce, STEM workforce and students)

 

For the 2023 period, we pursue goals in the following areas:

People, Technology, Infrastructure

 

 

>> View AmCham CZ: Economic Development Priorities 2023

 

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

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AmCham companies discussed strategic objectives for Czechia

What the strategic objective of Czechia should be? Should it be measured, as it has been in the past, by how much money we spend? Measuring progress by outcomes is a better choice.

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AmCham discussed the future of Big Bets in Brno region

AmCham member companies had a chance to meet with Brno City officials and discuss the future of Big Bets in Brno and Brno metropolitan area. 

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Letter to Deputy PM Bartoš: AmCham identified five issues to pursue

AmCham submitted Letter to Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization and Minister for Regional Development Ivan Bartoš. 

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AmCham Health Care Council: Can innovation solve health care finance?

Health care policy has been more distracted by Covid than other areas of the government. Policy has also been more distracted by the EU presidency.

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AmCham Statement on the Construction Act

We write on behalf of AmCham’s Real Estate Council to advocate a wider reform of land use policy, and to state our view that the proposal currently debated in the Chamber of Deputies will not achieve the changes necessary to achieve a leading innovative economy in Europe, and will place the country at a competitive disadvantage to Poland and Slovakia- particular after Slovakia’s digitization of their process and adoption of a new policy aimed at increasing investment into affordable housing.  

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