Publications

On 15th December 2021, the European Commission presented a revision of the third energy package for gas, which mainly aims at the Directive on common rules for the internal market in natural gas and the 2009 Regulation on conditions for… continue reading »

The Czech Republic received the first CZK 23 billion in pre-financing from the National Recovery Plan (NRP) at the end of September. The money from the EU’s emergency recovery fund will go mainly to green and digital projects. Under the digital… continue reading »

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Financing of research, development and innovation in the new EU programming period after 2020 will be definitely affected by Brexit and new challenges. Better synergies of EU programmes have to be created with EU funding allocated at national level. Those… continue reading »

The Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU hosted the seminar „Fit for shopping?“ on future EU Consumer legislation on 25th September. The event was organised together with CEBRE – Czech Business Representation to the EU in Brussels and… continue reading »

Brussels, 27th March 2017 – Illegal practices in transport sector pushed some Member States to apply minimum wage on international transport operations and burdensome administrative requirements on transport operators. “We need to find a suitable solution which will avoid frauds and illegal practices… continue reading »

20th April 2016, Brussels: Services account for a major part of EU GDP. However, a vast majority of them is provided in domestic markets. The growth potential of cross-border provision of services is huge, but there are significant obstacles that… continue reading »

Brussels, 6 April 2016: High-quality proposals from innovative Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises not funded within Horizon 2020 SME instrument available call budget have additional chances to be funded. The action concerns, for this initial ‘pilot’ phase, only proposals applying for… continue reading »

Brussels, June 2nd, 2015: On the 19th of May 2015, the European Commission launched an infringement procedure against Germany concerning the introduction of the Minimum Wage Act to the transport sector. Previously, the step of the German government was heavily criticized both… continue reading »

More clarity and high quality of the Consumer Rights Directive is needed, agreed representatives of the European Parliament, European business and consumer associations and Czech Permanent Representation on 11 November. There should be no hurry. It is worth to dedicate… continue reading »