Acta academica karviniensia 2014, 14(1):132-142 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2014.014

COMPARISON OF THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Jiří Piskorz

Slezská univerzita, Obchodně podnikatelská fakulta, Univerzitní nám. 1934/3, 733 40 Karviná, Email:jirri.p@email.cz

National Development Plan of the Czech Republic is the basic strategic document related with drawing on financial support from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund of the European Union for the given programming period. In case of the Czech Republic, two such documents have been drafted: one for the incomplete programming period of 2004-2006 and the other for full programming period of 2007-2013.This paper deals with the comparison of individual parts of both National Development Plans. The paper follows the binding structure of National Development Plans and describes, in logical order, current development of the Czech Republic, SWOT analysis, selected goals and strategies, focus of priority axes and operational programmes (omitting areas that deal with the management and monitoring of financial help and financial frameworks).The paper focus on individual development tendencies that can be discovered in these strategic documents and creates a specific view that shows the existing development of the National Development Plans and exposes certain factors that may be used in the development of the next National Development Plan.

Keywords: global objective, National Development Plan of the Czech Republic, operational program, priority axis, programming period, strategic objective

JEL classification: H00, R11

Received: February 14, 2013; Accepted: September 11, 2013; Published: March 30, 2014  Show citation