GBAORD in the Czech Republic

In the Czech republic, the GBAORD project is realized in close cooperation with R&D Council and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports through the Information system of research and development and its relational databases. The concept of the GBAORD project takes into account existing principal legal rules and documents on research and development in the Czech republic as stated in the Legislative Act No. 130/2002 Coll. on the Support of Research and development from Public Funds and on the Amendment to Some Related Acts (especially the Government Regulation No. 267/2002 on the Information System of Research and Development)³. The R&D Information System is an information system of the public administration for a collection, processing, publication and utilization of information about the research and development, which has been supported by public budgets. The R&D Information System administrator is the Research and Development Council; the R&D Information System operator is the Government Office of the Czech Republic. For needs of the GBAORD project are used the CEP database (Central register of R&D projects) and the CEZ database (Central register of research intentions). Supplementary data are obtained from the department of budget preparing at the R&D Council. CEP and CEZ databases do not include all government appropriations on R&D, that is why detailed information about contributions to international R&D programmes or institutions abroad and the specific university research must be obtained in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. Data on Chapter 10 (general university research by fields of science) are taken directly from universities. Information about returnable loans is taken directly from government departments, which are funding through their budgets R&D activities.

The processing of the GBAORD project and distribution of codes of socio-economic objectives (SEO) by NABS carry out employees of the Czech Statistical Office. In line with methodological guidelines, the non-R&D appropriations must be excluded from GBAORD. In this case it regards returnable loans (only projects realized before validation Act no. 130/2002 Coll.) and certain administrative costs. Adjusted data are classified by NABS at 3-digit level of socio-economic objectives. Multi-annual projects are processed by database software and new entered projects by the manual procedure according to a specific classification key based on the structure of the CEP and CEZ database.

³⁾ For more information about the Information System of R&D see following website: http://www.vyzkum.cz/.