Social security agency responsible for “absurdity of year”

The Czech Social Security Administration has taken this year’s prize in a poll to choose the bureaucratic “absurdity of the year”, the deputy editor of the financial newspaper Hospodářské noviny announced on Tuesday. The agency came first in the survey for a regulation requiring entrepreneurs to produce statements from the business register when the same information is regularly updated and freely accessible on the internet. Last year the prize – which is meant to highlight pointless bureaucracy – went to a law requiring physiotherapists to have a fridge.