localproblems.orgvol. 2026 · no. 33

Real local problems, stated properly. Distilled weekly from public sources — tenders, regulations, funding rounds, documented complaints. Every claim links to its source.

31 problems on record · Czechia, pilot country · distilled from 4910 source signals: 1896 funded · 46 regulation · 2941 tenders · 27 demand · next regulatory deadline

Sorted by score, descending · extract generated
IDProblemCategoryLocalityScoreUpdated
P-0001Czech energy communities lose up to half the value of shared electricity to bad allocation and settlement, and have no software to run member billingEnergyCzechia10/12
P-00086,000+ Czech firms and municipalities must implement NIS2 security measures on rolling deadlines through late 2026-2027 and most lack the capacity — many don't know they're in scopeLegalCzechia07/12
P-0010Tens of thousands of small Czech road hauliers run dispatch, documents and invoicing on phones, e-mail and legacy TMS while margins thin and drivers stay scarceMobilityCzechia07/12
P-0023Czech accountants are scarce and the accounting law is being rewritten for 2028 — while Germany's answer, the AI-native accounting firm, has no Czech equivalentB2BCzechia07/12
P-002885% of inspected Czech e-shops broke consumer law in 2025, enforcement keeps finding ~90% violation rates, and the green-claims rules landing 27 Sep 2026 stack another layer on merchants who have no compliance toolingRetailCzechia07/12
P-0002Hundreds of small Czech heat-pump and solar installation firms drown in quoting, heat-load calculation and NZÚ subsidy paperwork with no vertical softwareEnergyCzechia07/12
P-0006Thousands of Czech investment intermediaries and advisors face growing ČNB/MiFID paperwork today and a directly applicable EU AML rulebook from July 2027, armed only with Word templates and consultantsFintechCzechia06/12
P-0024Czech building owners face the EPBD retrofit wave with no portfolio analytics — the implementing law is overdue, infringement pressure is on, and Berlin already has a funded productHousingCzechia06/12
P-0025Czech home insulation runs through a long tail of one-man firms while NZÚ subsidies wait — Berlin's VARM shows the tech-enabled installer model nobody runs hereEnergyCzechia06/12
P-0004Families caring for ~380,000 dependent Czechs must obtain and defend příspěvek na péči through an opaque, bureaucratic process with no help beyond static info portalsHealthCzechia06/12
P-0003Czech developers and builders navigate one of the OECD's slowest building-permit processes through a still-dysfunctional state portal, with no tooling of their ownHousingCzechia06/12
P-0005Czech SMB distributors and manufacturing suppliers re-type inbound RFQs and orders from e-mail, PDF and Excel into their ERPs by handB2BCzechia06/12
P-0017Czech banks, telcos and KYC-bound businesses must accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet for strong authentication from 2027 and have no integration pathGovtechCzechia05/12
P-0029Czech public bodies must run state-attested electronic records systems by 31 Dec 2026 — non-attested products are already banned from sale, and ~19 buyers re-procured eSSL in a single ten-week windowGovtechCzechia05/12
P-0022Czech regional hospitals are each buying bespoke multi-million-euro eHealth interoperability platforms — the same integration problem solved separately, over and overHealthCzechia05/12
P-0007Czech contractors source subcontractor crews through Facebook groups and brokers and run their payroll on generic legacy software, with no vetting, compliance or construction-specific toolingHousingCzechia05/12
P-0027Consumer-credit disputes at the Czech financial arbiter quadrupled in two years toward ~20,000 filings a year, and neither lenders nor the arbiter run anything but manual case handlingFintechCzechia05/12
P-0018Every Czech employer must rebuild hiring and pay practice for the Pay Transparency Directive from Jan 2027, and employers with 150+ staff owe pay-gap reports from 2028 — with no local toolingLegalCzechia04/12
P-0020Czech e-shops and digital services are in the European Accessibility Act's first enforcement year — ČOI is test-purchasing checkout flows while most sites remain non-compliantRetailCzechia04/12
P-0030The MiCA transition ended 1 Jul 2026 with only 11 licensed crypto providers in Czechia — hundreds of formerly trade-licensed firms must wind down, migrate customer assets, or operate illegallyFintechCzechia04/12
P-0009Czech employers hiring foreign workers push zaměstnanecká karta applications through a notoriously slow paper process via manual relocation agencies and law firmsLegalCzechia04/12
P-0011Czech home-care agencies burn scarce nurse time on phone-and-paper intake, scheduling and coordination, with only a legacy record-keeping system to helpHealthCzechia04/12
P-0016Czech hardware, IoT and software vendors must report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours from 11 Sep 2026, and small ISVs have no product-security function to do itLegalCzechia03/12
P-0019Czech automotive and industrial-battery firms must ship digital battery passports with every battery from 18 Feb 2027 — the EU's first mandatory digital product passport, with no transition periodB2BCzechia03/12
P-0021Czech device manufacturers must ship 'access by design' data APIs from Sep 2026 and every SaaS must abolish switching charges by Jan 2027 under the EU Data Act — two waves most affected firms haven't startedB2BCzechia03/12
P-0012Czech importers and processors of wood, coffee, rubber and soy must file geolocation-based due diligence statements by 30 Dec 2026 and mid-sized firms have no traceability stackEnvironmentCzechia03/12
P-0013Czech banks and payment institutions must receive instant euro payments by 9 Jan 2027 and send them with Verification of Payee by 9 Jul 2027, and smaller PSPs lack the in-house capabilityFintechCzechia03/12
P-0014Czech machinery manufacturers, importers and retrofitters face a hard cutover to the new Machinery Regulation on 20 Jan 2027 with no transition periodB2BCzechia03/12
P-0015Czech importers of steel, aluminium and other CBAM goods have been accruing certificate liability since Jan 2026 and must hold authorised declarant status before certificate sales open in Feb 2027EnvironmentCzechia03/12
P-0026Hundreds of small Czech water utilities are buying smart metering one tender at a time — each re-solving telemetry, data and dispatch with no shared platformEnvironmentCzechia03/12
P-0031Fifty-three Czech public buyers tendered rooftop PV separately in ten weeks — ~€60M of fragmented small-lot design-build procurement, with the same tenders re-published up to three times to find biddersEnergyCzechia03/12