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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/26
24 January 2002
(02-0365)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CZECH REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Environment
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Dangerous chemical
substances and chemical preparations: explosive, oxidising, extremely or highly
inflammable, inflammable, toxic, highly toxic, aggressive, irritating, carcinogenic,
mutagenic, toxic and decreasing reproduction or dangerous to health or environment
substances.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   The Draft Act on
Chemical Substances and Chemical Preparations and on Amendments to Some Acts(40 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   This act regulates rights and obligations of legal and physical
persons within:  classification and testing of dangerous properties of chemical substances
and preparations, registration of chemical substances, packaging and labelling of chemical
substances and preparations, placing chemical substances and preparations on the market
and into circulation, importing, exporting of chemical substances and preparations,
notification of chemical substances.  Substances  are classified in accordance with a List of
so far classified dangerous substances or with a List of new substances (ELINCS) published
by the Ministry of Environment.  Substances are tested by methods for testing dangerousproperties according to the Decrees of Ministry of Industry and Trade (for explosive
substances), Ministry of Interior (for oxidising, extremely or highly inflammable,
inflammable substances) and Ministry of Health (for toxic, highly toxic, aggressive,
irritating, carcinogenic, mutagenic or dangerous to health or environment substances).
Good laboratory practice should be used duri ng testing of these properties. Basic and
special conditions for registration (full or partial) are discussed in detail.  Substances or
preparations classified as dangerous for human health or environment can be placed on the
market or into circulation only in labelled, special packaging, and with a security list
containing data on producer, exporter, of dang erous substance or preparation and on human
health and environment protection. Executive roles of Ministry of Environment, Ministry ofHealth, Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Environmental Inspection, regional bodies, custom
offices are specified for given area of chemical substances and preparations.  Sanctions for
improper handling of dangerous chemical substances are also stipulated.G/TBT/N/CZE/26
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To comply the Czech legal system with EC legislation in the field of substances dangerous
for human health and environment.  The purpose of the draft Act is also to give guidelines
to producers, exporters and users how to handle these substance at ensuring on the one hand
placing on the market and free circulation of chemical substances and preparations and onthe other hand to ensure high level of health and environment protection.
8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 76/769/EEC, Council Directive 91/157/EEC,
Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2 455/92.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 June 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2003
10. Final date for comments:   31 March 2002
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
http://www.unmz.cz/ , wto.tbt@unmz.cz