sustain this reasonable food security level, the State promotes the development of Czech agricultural and food supply chains. This involves taking measures of economic, diplomatic, environmental, and oversight nature. Absolute food security, meaning absolute food self-sufficiency, is unattainable. Czechia’s territory cannot produce the required quantities of every basic agricultural and food commodity. To attain the highest possible food security level, the State concentrates on those commodities that can reasonably be produced in Czechia’s natural and economic conditions. In this context, the State seeks to protect the soil from degradation and inappropriate use in order to promote biodiversity and water retention in the landscape. The State, acting through the State material reserves system, will adjust the food stocks held in the system as required to keep the population supplied in a food crisis. 106. Strategic reserves help us withstand the impacts of unforeseen events. Our State material reserves system is now at the operational readiness level. If the situation changes, we will have to reconsider the range and volume of the stocks. Another concern is to find ways to motivate our private sector and individuals to build up strategic and household stocks in anticipation of a security crisis or disruption of supply chains to ensure that our economy would continue to function smoothly. The international dimension and the sourcing of inputs for secure functioning of our economy 107. The openness of the Czech economy means that when we try to ensure the security of our internal economic environment, the international dimension inevitably comes into play. More often than not, the Czech economy faces threats and risks of an international nature coming from State as well as nonState actors. 108. Czechia must have the capability to actively prevent and deal with economic coercion and influence operations in the multilateral trading system. We must counteract the efforts of some State and non-State actors who use non-legitimate methods to gain economic or technological advantage, cause damage to private businesses or academic and research institutions, and even to compromise specific interests of the Czech Republic. The key is to have in place robust institutional support (including human resources) for the mechanisms that keep our open environment secure for trade and investment. Examples may include the foreign investment screening mechanism, the planned security screening of supply chains, the application of sanction regimes, export licensing, and the EU’s planned anti-coercion instrument. 34 109. In terms of economic security, our main interest is to diversify our supply chains, improve their quality, make them more stable and secure, and to become less dependent on strategic supplies. The Czech Republic’s economy is heavily reliant on access to sources of energy, raw materials, and other key inputs. Our first concern will be to gain secure access to the inputs necessary to maintain our defence capability and national security, including inputs for our defence and security industries. The support provided (and constantly improved) by the State, together with raw material diplomacy, will enable us to replace supplies of energy feedstock and other raw material from Russia and other authoritarian or unstable countries with supplies from reliable partners. Diversity of markets will make it easier for our companies to find alternative suppliers. Diversified exports and a greater degree of internationalization will lessen our economic dependencies and help us redirect our exports whenever we lose an export market. The Government will share the available information with Czech businesses to reduce the risks of business presence in markets rife with security problems. In view of the energy transition, increasing digitization, electrification, and new production trends, our strategic aim is to radically expand the range of strategic commodities held in the State material reserves system. This concerns especially commodities necessary for our arms, steel, and battery manufacturers and other economically important Czech businesses. 110. Energy security depends not only on the diversification of sources, but also on the development of national and European infrastructures for the transport of energy feedstock. The development of infrastructure enabling consistent highcapacity transport of LNG will be an important part of our efforts to stabilize energy supply. The Government has solutions to replace Russian oil imports: the TAL-PLUS project to increase the capacity of the TAL pipeline for oil supply to Czechia, the Adria pipeline for oil shipped via the Adriatic Sea terminals, and the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline for oil shipped via the Black Sea terminals. A concern of strategic importance is that the oil stocks held in our State material reserves system should consist predominantly of alternatives to the sulphur-rich Russian oil. 111. Our energy security will also benefit from the development and use of new technologies such as high-capacity energy storage systems and the use of hydrogen, including the building of hydrogen producing and utilizing infrastructures. 35