Mapping Digital Trade Regulations in Central Europe: Regional Trends and the Czech Case

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mapping Digital Trade Regulations in Central Europe: Regional Trends and the Czech Case

Original language description

Tomás Rogaler was Think Visegrad fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and the presented paper is an outcome of his research stay at the IIR. It maps the restrictive and enabling policies affecting digital trade across the Visegrad (V4) countries while following the Digital Trade Integration (DTI) Project methodology. It argues that EU-wide rules create a broadly similar regulatory baseline across the V4, while national policies and implementation choices still determine how enabling or restrictive the environment is in practice. The analysis shows the countries’ convergence around the EU framework, but also their divergences in areas such as cross-border data policies and public procurement. The paper complements this regional assessment with an in-depth case study of Czechia combining legal analysis with qualitative insights from stakeholder interviews. The findings indicate that Czechia is broadly open and enabling in the areas of tariffs on ICT goods, FDI, and telecommunications, yet faces bottlenecks linked to data-related compliance costs and the legal framework for digital contracts and copyright, which weigh disproportionately on SMEs and digital services firms. By linking formal frameworks with practical outcomes, the study offers evidence-based recommendations to support more proportionate regulation in Czechia and foster deeper digital trade integration across the V4.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů