Document 208 - Amendment to the Act on the Protection of Health from the Harmful Effects of Addictive Substances

Published date: 29.05.2026 |Processed date: 29.05.2026 |Session 10

Submitters: Štěpán Slovák, Martin Kupka, Karel Haas, Renáta Zajíčková, Zdenka Němečková Crkvenjaš, Petr Sokol, Lucie Bartošová, Martin Baxa, Petr Bendl

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Summary

The Bill amends the Substance Misuse Act to better align with wider addiction policy. It replaces the existing notion of a national drug strategy with a new notion aimed at preventing and reducing the harms associated with addictive behaviour. The fundamental change is that it will no longer be possible to simply establish an advisory body to the government, but that the government will have to make it mandatory. At the same time, the role of the Government Office in the professional, organisational and technical provision of this coordination is explicitly enshrined.

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Government opinion on Print 208/0

Processed date: 23.06.2026

Scope: pages 1–2.

This is the government’s dissenting opinion on a parliamentary bill to amend the Act on the Protection of Health from the Harmful Effects of Addictive Substances. The government objects to the bill’s new requirement to establish an advisory body and to explicitly assign a coordinating role to the Office of the Government, as it believes this would limit the executive branch’s autonomy and increase the rigidity of the civil service. At the same time, it refers to its earlier decision to transfer part of the responsibilities from the Office of the Government to the relevant ministries for the sake of efficiency and to prevent duplication. It also points out legislative technical shortcomings in the bill.