G/TBT/N/CZE/251  
9 September 2020  
(20-6101) 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  
Email: wto.tbt@unmz.cz   
Website address: www.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; MISC ELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (HS 
38); Inorganic chemicals (ICS 71.060), Organic chemicals (ICS 71.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Implementing Decree on the implementation of certain measures related to the 
prohibition of chemical weapons (16 page(s), in Czech; 14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The draft Implementing Decree replaces the existing 
Implementing Decree No 208/2008 and lays down the details, in particular, on the 
following areas go verned by Act No 19/1997:  
- contents of the report on activities for protection purposes,  
- facilities that may handle Schedule  1 substances,  
- reports on the handling of Schedule  1, Schedule  2 and Schedule  3 substances,  
- conditions for transferring S chedule  2 and Schedule  3 substances,  
- record -keeping of scheduled substances,  
- reports on the production of certain organic chemicals.  
The draft legislation does not contain any references to national technical standards, 
technical documents or corpora te standards, or to European standards, harmonised 
standards, or international standards or recommendations.  
The draft legislation does not contain any references to European legislation.  G/TBT/N/CZE/251  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The draft Implementing Decree implements Act No  19/1997 in connection 
with the amendment to this Act through Act No  336/2020 (effective from 1  January 2021) 
and, at the same time, fully replaces the existing Implementing Decree ( No 208/2008) to 
this Act. From the standpoint of content, the draft introduces a limited amount of 
amendments that concern, in particular, a minor extension of the scope of facilities where 
Schedule  1 substances may be handled, deletion of the schedules (w hich are listed 
directly in the Convention and are directly applicable) and amendments to the record -
keeping of scheduled substances with a greater focus on the digital form. From the formal 
standpoint, however, this is a comprehensive revision of the Impl ementing Decree 
necessitated by a change in the terminology for identifying scheduled substances and the 
need to modernise the text in line with the current legislative and technical trends.; 
Protection of human health or safety; Protection of animal or pl ant life or health; 
Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No 19/1997, as in force until 31 December 2020.  
Act No 19/1997, as amended through Act No 336/2020 (effective from 1 January 2021).  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 December 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  30 November 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  
Bisku psky dvur 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 - Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Email: wto.tbt@unmz.cz   
Website address: www.unmz.cz  
 
The English version of the Draft is available  in the TRIS database, please follow the 
attached URL link below.  
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tris/cs/ index.cfm/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2020&num=520&m
Lang=EN  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CZE/20_5367_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CZE/20_5367_00_x.pdf