Vláda schválila rozšíření „whitelistu“ o Tchaj-wan

Government Approves Expansion of the "Whitelist" to Include Taiwan

At its meeting on February 19, 2025, the government approved a regulation to expand the so-called whitelist, i.e., the list of countries whose citizens do not require a work permit, employee card, intra-company transferee card, or blue card to be employed or perform work.

As we previously informed you, from July 1, 2024, citizens of Australia, Israel, Japan, Canada, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America gained free access to the Czech labor market. Now, nationals of Taiwan will also be in the same position.

The favorable regime for Taiwanese citizens was intended earlier, but the expansion was only made possible by a recent amendment to the Employment Act – which allowed the inclusion of separate jurisdictions, not just states, on the whitelist (the Czech Republic has not yet recognized Taiwan as a separate state).

The government regulation has been published in the Collection of Laws and takes effect on 1 March 2025.

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Author:

 Jan Lachmann