From 2029, the Air Ambulance Service will have eleven bases instead of the current ten, and the number of bases that will operate around the clock will be expanded from six to eight. The plan for securing the activities of the air rescue service after 2028 was approved by the government of Petro Fiala at a meeting on Wednesday 11 December 2024. It also approved the parameters of the subsidy and loan programme Živel 3, which is to help citizens and municipalities with the reconstruction of homes destroyed by the September floods.
As of 1 January 2029, new or old operators will take over the operation of the air ambulance service, resulting from a tender procedure that will be announced by the Ministry of Health in March next year for eight bases that will be provided by private companies from that date. The contracts, which will run for 15 years, until the end of 2043, are expected to be signed in September next year.
Approved by the Government the Ministry of Health's plan to ensure the operation of the LZS after 31 December 2028, when the current contracts of the current operators expire, envisages the expansion of the existing ten bases (Prague, Ústí nad Labem, Plzeň, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Liberec, Jihlava, Olomouc, Brno, Ostrava) by an eleventh covering the Karlovy Vary Region and the conclusion of a contract with Slovakia to cover the territory of the Zlín Region from its base in Trenčín. At the same time, the number of bases that will provide continuous operation will be expanded from six to eight. Three stations instead of the current two will be provided by the state with the help of the Police of the Czech Republic - in addition to Prague and Brno, this will now also include Ostrava. The air ambulance service has been operating in the Czech Republic for more than 35 years and has an irreplaceable role in providing rapid medical care in life-threatening cases.
The government has agreed Parameters of the Ministry of Regional Development's subsidy programme Živel 3which will be launched by the State Investment Promotion Fund. The programme, combining a subsidy and a favourable loan, is intended to help rebuild homes destroyed by a natural disaster, in this case September's devastating floods. The aid can be used to repair a dwelling or part of a dwelling damaged by the floods, to build a new dwelling, including possible demolition of the destroyed dwelling, or to acquire a new dwelling by purchase or auction. The Fund will have CZK 3.5 billion available for this programme, but the loan part will be gradually returned to its budget. Details in press release of the Ministry for Regional Development.
The cabinet also decided that counties will no longer have to hold for the needs of foreigners granted temporary protectionwho need to secure accommodation, a total of 50 000 accommodation places, as ordered by the Government. Demand for accommodation has fallen sharply since the start of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the legal parameters for who is entitled to secure accommodation have changed. The government has therefore reduced the total quota for the regions to 20,000 places.
The Ministers also agreed on the government's legislative work plan for next year. Given that this is the last year of the government's term of office, the cabinet will focus primarily on enforcing legislative changes resulting from the EU's requirements to implement new EU regulations. As every year, the key law will be the draft law on the state budget for 2026, and the government intends to prepare, among other things, a substantive plan for the recodification of spatial planning, an amendment to the law on the digital economy, and a draft law on transparency and targeting of political advertising.
The government also approved Anti-Corruption Action Plan 2025 and 2026which contains a list of tasks for the last two years of the Government's Anti-Corruption Concept for the years 2023 to 2026.In this case, the Government also wants to complete the work on the necessary legislative changes, including a draft law on the regulation of lobbying, an amendment to the law on public procurement, a draft law on the management and control of public finances, and an amendment to the law on the Supreme Audit Office and a related amendment to the Constitution. It also wants to push ahead with the intention to establish a lobbying register or to adopt and publish a code of conduct for persons in top executive positions with clear guidelines on conflicts of interest and other integrity-related matters.
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