Do I need any Autorisation or Permission if I am willing to enter the Czech market? 

Legitimacy of the foreign natural person or legal entity to undertake business in the Czech Republic is possible in the frame of two different modes: 1st mode of the freedom to provide services and 2nd mode of settlement.

1st Mode of the Freedom to Provide ServicesIn case a foreign natural person or legal entity has already been operating a trade abroad, he/she does not have to notify it in the CR. He/she will only submit the trade licence from his/her country, including its translation to Czech language, in a case he/she is asked by the workers of Trade Licence Office, and follows the Czech Trade Act when undertaking its trade in the CR.

2nd Mode of SettlementIn a case a foreign natural person or legal entity does not have any trade licence, he/she has to establish it in the Czech Republic in accordance with the above mentioned procedure. There is important point: a national of an EU Member State (including the EEA and the Swiss Confederation) shall prove his/her qualification by submitting a certificate of recognition of professional qualification issued by a recognizing authority pursuant to Act 18/2004 Coll., on recognition of vocational qualifications, which is the Ministry of Industry and Trade as regards trades, or the professional qualification may be also substantiated by certificates of professional qualification evidencing the professional capacity required for individual trades and their translation to Czech language.

Foreign legal entity's authorization to undertake business on the territory of the CR comes to effect on the date when the person or, as the case may be, an organizational unit of its company is registered. The authorization is valid within the scope of the line of business registered in the Commercial Register. Natural persons who are nationals of member State of the EU or EEA, undertaking their business on the territory of the CR; these persons are governed by the same laws and legal regulations as Czech natural persons, unless provided otherwise by law, i.e. they comply with the Czech Business Trade Act.

A foreign person may participate in establishing a Czech legal entity for the purpose of undertaking a business or to participate as a partner or a member in a Czech legal entity which has already been established. A foreign person itself may also establish a Czech legal entity or to become its sole partner in case the commercial law allows a sole founder or a sole partner. A legal entity may be established only according to Czech laws.

A legal entity established according to the laws of a foreign state for the purpose of business undertaking which has its registered office abroad may transfer its registered office to the CR in case an international treaty allows so. This also applies to any transfer of the registered office of a Czech legal entity abroad. Such a transfer of the registered office becomes effective from the date of its entering in the Commercial Register. The internal legal relationships of a legal entity which has moved its registered office to the CR shall keep following the laws and legal regulations of the state where the legal entity was established.