G/TBT/N/CZE/249  
10 March 2020  
(20-1854) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  CZECH REPUBLIC   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  State Office for Nuclear Safety  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Czech O ffice for Standards, Metrology, and Testing  
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
P. O. Box 49  
Biskupsky dvur 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 -Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440  
E-mail: wto.tbt@unmz .cz  
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):  Handling 
of toxic chemicals and their precursors, including substances on the schedules of the 
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of 
Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction; Inorganic chemicals (ICS 71.060) , Organic 
chemicals (ICS 71.080), MILITARY ENGINEERING (ICS 95)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Act 
amending Act No 19/1997 on certain measures related to the prohibition of chemical 
weapons and on amendments to A ct No 50/1976 on spatial planning and the Building 
Code (the Building Act), as amended, Act No 455/1991 on business activities (the Trading 
Act), as amended, and Act No 140/1961, the Criminal Code, as amended, as amended, 
and other related acts (13 page(s) , in Czech; 14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The draft amendment to Act No  19/1997 comprises, in 
particular:  
- amended definitions of legal terms and overall terminological changes,  
- a conceptual broadening of the prohibition of certain types of handling to cover 
broader categories of substances, in accordance with the Convention on the 
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical 
Weapons and on their Destruction,  
- legislative and technical amendmen ts in response to the latest developments in 
law-making,  
- new provisions regarding administrative sanctioning.  G/TBT/N/CZE/249  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   
The general aim of the amendment is an update of the cu rrent version of Act 
No 19/1997 in accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, 
Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction:  
1) Full alignment of the text of the Act (and the related amended acts) with the 
Convention.  
2) A conceptual change related to the Convention related to the prohibition of the 
use of certain substances for certain purposes.  
3) Clarification of certain information obligations with respect to public 
administration authorities.  
4) Elimination or modification of outdated legal requirements.  
5) Addition of concepts and clarification of legislation with regard to the keeping of 
state registers and eGovernment.  
6) Creation of modern provisions on the exercise of supervisory authority.  
7) Reform of the part of the Act related to infractions.; Protection of human health or 
safety; Protection of animal or plant life or health; Protecti on of the environment; 
Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No  19/1997 on certain measures related to the 
prohibition of chemical weapons and on amendments to Act No  50/1976 on spatial 
planning and the Building Code (the Building Act), as amended, Act No  455/1991 on 
business activities (the Trading Act), as amended, and Act No  140/1961, the Criminal 
Code, as amended  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 October 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  30 June 2020  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
If there is any issue with downloading document, contact us:  
Czech Office for Standards, Metrology, and Testing  
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
P. O. Box 49  
Biskupsky dvur 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 -Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440  
E-mail: wto.tbt@unmz.cz   
The English version of the Draft Act amending Act No 19/1997 will be available in the 
TRIS database, follow the attached URL link below.  
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tris/cs/index.cfm/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2020&num=89&mL
ang=EN  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CZE/20_1865_00_e.pdf  
https://members.w to.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CZE/20_1865_00_x.pdf