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Prague taxi service regulation and antitrust issues

Overview

The regulatory landscape for taxi services in Prague has undergone significant shifts involving antitrust enforcement and price deregulation.

In September 2026, the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) issued a final ruling regarding a cartel operating at Václav Havel Airport Prague between 2019 and 2021. The authority found that companies Taxi Praha and Fix coordinated business activities, including service offerings, pricing, and the exchange of sensitive information, to eliminate competition. As a result, Fix was fined 7.82 million CZK and Taxi Praha was fined 950,000 CZK.

Following these antitrust developments, Prague City Hall abolished maximum price caps for traditional taxi services using taximeters, effective October 1. This move followed a previous increase in the maximum price per kilometer from 36 to 42 CZK in August. The deregulation has faced internal political friction, with Deputy Mayor for Transport Jaromír Beránek denying city leadership approval and seeking a reversal. Additionally, the Czech Trade and Tourism Association warned that removing these regulations could lead to “unfair practices and inadequate pricing by taxi operators.”

Entities

Ministry of Interior of Slovakia · Uber · Václav Havel Airport Prague · Prague Public Transit Company · Czech Railways

Timeline

  1. [BUSINESS] 9 sources
    Transportation updates: Prague taxi price deregulation and regional transit changes

    Transportation updates include the removal of taxi price caps in Prague, major tramway construction and outages in Czech cities, RegioJet's progress in staffing for new rail routes, and taxi inspections in much

  2. [BUSINESS] 2 sources
    Prague Airport taxi companies fined for cartel agreement

    The Czech antitrust authority confirmed a taxi cartel at Prague Airport involving Taxi Praha and Fix, resulting in fines totaling over 8.7 million CZK for price coordination and market manipulation.

Sources

echo24.cz · krimi-plzen.cz · metro.cz · mhd86.cz · nasregion.cz · nitra.sk · praha.e15.cz · prazskypatriot.cz · www1.pluska.sk · zdopravy.cz · zpravy.aktualne.cz