Government proposes scrapping over 10,000 outdated pieces of legislation

Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday that the government is suggesting to scrap more than 10,000 laws, regulations and decrees that are still formally valid but no longer in use. The proposal, which will now be debated in Parliament, is an attempt at “simplifying the law code”, Mr Fiala said.

The excess number of decrees are apparently also becoming a hindrance for the Interior Ministry’s eSbírka electronic database of laws. The ministry, which came up with the proposal, stated that one of the main issues is that it is often difficult to clarify which decrees are still legal and which not.