The average amount of financial penalties is not decreasing, but steadily increasing as if it were not effective
Average amount of fines
Between 2012 and 2019, the average amount of financial penalties in nominal terms was approximately the same. Almost all of the increase in the total amount of sentences imposed was therefore due to an increase in the number of financial penalties imposed. However, in 2020, the average amount of fines imposed rose to 31,000 CZK, an increase of more than 5,000 CZK (20%). In 2021, there was a further increase in the average amount of fines imposed and in the number of fines. The increase can therefore now be attributed more to the efforts of the Government, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office. In fact, the number of days when the country was in a state of emergency was lower in 2021 than in 2020. In the meantime, case law has evolved and a special regulation in the pandemic law has been introduced, which says that the stricter rate will only apply to crimes committed in the management of a pandemic. Courts very often impose “round” amounts. Penalties of 10 to 30,000 CZK together accounted for more than the greater 1/2 of the sentences imposed.
