Department 26 – Sectoral Policies

The Department carries out legislative activities in the field of price negotiation and regulation, determination of undue advantage, price registration, provision of price information, price control, and ensures its harmonisation with EU law. It exercises the Ministry's powers under Act No.526/1990 Coll., consisting in the regulation and control of prices, the conduct of administrative proceedings for breaches of price regulations, including appeal proceedings, extraordinary appeals and the agenda associated with court actions, and the evaluation of price developments. It participates in the elaboration of the concept of the state pricing policy, the concept of further development of the state pricing policy. On the basis of the state pricing policy concept, it prepares substantive solutions, including substantive plans and regulatory impact assessments. It carries out market analyses of selected products and their prices and proposes adjustments to price regulation on the basis of these analyses. It ensures that legislation within the Department's remit complies with EU law. It prepares pricing policy concepts and systematically addresses pricing methodological issues related to price liberalisation and regulation. It carries out market analyses of selected products and their prices and proposes adjustments to price regulation on the basis of these analyses. It comments on the concepts and plans for privatisation in the regulated network industries, particularly in terms of price deregulation, the creation of a competitive environment and the removal of subsidies. It supervises the exercise of delegated powers of the regions and the City of Prague in the field of prices and provides methodological assistance to the price authorities of regions and municipalities in the regulation and control of prices. It prepares reports on the activities of the price control bodies according to the requirements of the leadership of the Ministry, the Government and the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The Department examines the tax system, analyses the current state of tax policy and proposes measures to make the tax system more efficient. It elaborates the concept of the state tax policy in the field of general tax policy and transforms it into instruments of the concept of further development of tax policy. It submits the documents necessary for the preparation of the draft SB and the draft SFA. It is responsible for the preparation of simulations of the budgetary impact of tax policy concepts. It produces short-term estimates and medium-term forecasts of tax revenue levels. In the area of tax revenue, it ensures the processing of data according to international standards and maintains the relevant data base. It is responsible for the preparation of the EC harmonised VAT resource base statement. It ensures the fulfilment of tasks arising from the Czech Republic's membership in the EU and OECD. 

Units 

• Unit 2601 – Pricing Policy 
• Unit 2602 – Tax Analysis