High administrative and regulatory burdens. The most striking is the poor position of the Czech Republic in terms of the degree of regulatory burden and the effectiveness of public administration including the judicial authorities. In terms of legal regulations, all central state administration authorities monitor the efficiency of legislation within their entrusted scope of competence62. A base for a systematic evaluation of the impacts of regulatory measures at the government level was put in place in 2007 when Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) became an obligatory part of a legislative process63. Currently, there are discussions about introducing RIA for non-governmental initiatives (e.g. MPs' motions) in order to increase the efficiency and balance of the legislative process as a whole. It is also required that general RIA principles should be used for the preparation of non-legislative documents that have legislative impacts. In addition to procedural changes, it is important to emphasise a better quality of the presented RIAs. Despite the progress made in this respect in the last couple of years, there is still a prevailing trend that less than 30% of the presented RIAs are positive without comments64. The Czech Republic does not sufficiently use RIA ex post as a tool to verify the actual impacts of the regulations after they are introduced. The evaluation of corruption risks is a part of government drafts; the duty to prepare a general evaluation of corruption risks for parliamentary drafts also applies. As this is a fairly new tool, it will be necessary to focus on the quality of its implementation. The high regulatory and administrative burden is still considered a major obstacle to business development in the Czech Republic65. Compared to 2012, the Czech Republic dropped by 6 places in the assessment of administrative burden on businesses, where starting the business in the Czech Republic takes 19.5 days and 9 requirements must be met, compared with the OECD average, where starting the business takes 11.1 days and 5 requirements. Establishing a company in the Czech Republic is also nearly three times more expensive than in OECD countries. Standardization of processes in the most common situations in life is missing, which leads to longer processing of applications and bureaucratic burdens to the process itself whether in relation to the citizens, the business sector, or within the public administration itself. Development needs: Reducing the regulatory burden by setting the system tools...
High administrative and regulatory burdens. The most striking is the poor position of the Czech Republic in terms of the degree of regulatory burden and the effectiveness of public administration including the judicial authorities. In terms of legal regulations, all central state administration authorities monitor the efficiency of legislation within their entrusted scope of competence62. A base for a systematic evaluation of the impacts of regulatory measures at the government level was put in place in 2007 when Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) became an obligatory part of a legislative process63. Currently, there are discussions about introducing RIA for non-governmental initiatives (e.g. MPs' motions) in order to increase the efficiency and balance of the legislative process as a whole. It is also required that general RIA principles should be used for the preparation of non-legislative documents that have legislative impacts. In addition to procedural changes, it is important to emphasise a better quality of the presented RIAs. Despite the progress made in this respect in the last couple of years, there is still a prevailing trend that less than 30% of the presented RIAs are positive without comments64. The Czech Republic does not sufficiently use RIA ex post as a tool to 62 The assessment of the efficiency of regulations and the impacts of specific legal regulations form a part of explanatory reports for newly proposed legislation or amendment of valid legal regulations..
