The government of Petr Fiala has prepared the fourth set of proposals for changes to legislation aimed at removing unnecessary administrative burdens from legislation. The so-called anti-bureaucratic package was approved by the cabinet at a meeting on Wednesday 27 August 2025. It also discussed the donation of 67 older, unneeded computer sets to schools in poorer areas of Ukraine.
The Fourth anti-bureaucratic package contains specific proposals for changes to laws, decrees or government regulations identified by individual ministries in cooperation with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, regional authorities, citizens and other entities.
"We are fulfilling the government's programme declaration, the part that concerns the removal of unnecessary legislation and excessive administrative burdens," Fiala pointed out. "This time it is about thirty amendments to our legislation, which are aimed at significantly reducing the administration that is bothering us. The previous three packages that our government has already approved contained 72 measures, so we have produced more than a hundred measures that reduce red tape during the course of our government." stated the Prime Minister.
Specifically, the government proposes, for example, to abolish the prohibition on the existence of a basic employment relationship between spouses or partners, to abolish the obligation for employers to submit reports to the trade union on newly created employment relationships and on termination of employment by agreement or during the probationary period, or to extend the validity of medical reports for children to participate in an outdoor school or a recovery event for up to five years. Members of the Government have been tasked with preparing the relevant legislative changes by mid-July next year.
A number of measures from previous packages have already been pushed through into legislative changes. These include the abolition of compulsory periodic medical examinations for employees in non-hazardous professions, an increase in the turnover threshold for the possibility of applying for a flat-rate tax to CZK 2 million and the same amount of turnover for the compulsory payment of VAT, or the abolition of food passes.
"The anti-bureaucratic packages are not some isolated activity of the Government, although they are important in themselves, but it is part of our efforts to reduce bureaucracy in our country and to reduce the scope of the state where it is not needed. Under our Government, the number of civil servants has not grown as it did in the previous period, it is important to say, but has fallen by more than 2 000. We have abolished unnecessary offices, such as the 77 branches of the Tax Administration or the less frequented branches of the Czech Post Office. There has been significant digitisation, de-bureaucratisation and simplification of the state," Fiala said, citing as an example the almost complete digitization of social benefits, pensions, the land registry and the extension of the electronic EZ card.
The government also agreed that the Czech Republic donates 67 older computer sets to Ukraine, which the Ministry of the Interior assessed as unnecessary and unusable for its own purposes. In accordance with the law, it granted an exemption from permanent obsolescence for these older computers, thus enabling their transfer free of charge to the VIZa Charitable Fund, which will arrange for their transport and distribution.
The computers were purchased between 2015 and 2018 and today no longer meet the requirements of the Ministry of the Interior for software up-to-dateness and cyber security. The recipient of the donation will be schools in Ukraine's Transcarpathian region, one of Ukraine's poor regions. Each of the selected schools is expected to receive seven to eight of these computers, which will help improve the quality of education for pupils there.
The Government also approved the intention of the Ministry of Finance move the Financial Administration in Prague to one central location and to purchase a new administrative building in Prague 9 for CZK 2.95 billion for this purpose.Thanks to this, the state will save money on commercial leases of existing premises, on maintenance of state buildings that are no longer suitable and on operations as such.
The relocation will free up buildings worth approximately CZK 1.6 billion, which will gradually be handed over to the Office for State Representation in Property Matters. In addition, the Financial Administration will gain a headquarters in a convenient, highly accessible location for both employees and clients. Details include press release of the Ministry of Finance.
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