G/TBT/N/CZE/184  
 
23 June 2015  
(15-3244)  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: Ministry of Agriculture 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 Office for Standards Metrology and Testing 
National Enquiry Point 
P.O. Box 49 Biskupský dvùr 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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Animal feeding stuffs 
(ICS: 65.120) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Decree 
Implementing Certain Provisions of the Feed Act (7 pages, in Czech) 
6. Description of content: The draft decree replaces current legislation in the given area, 
which is Decree No. 356/2008, implementing Act No. 91/1996, on feeds, as amended, as 
amended by Decree No. 178/2009, Decree No. 169/2010, Decree No. 336/2010, Decree 
No. 198/2011 and Decree No. 25/2012.  
The reason for the submission of the draft legi slation is the scope of materiál changes that 
have occurred due to the adoption of: 
- Commission Directive 2008/38/EC of 5 March 2008,  establishing a list of intended uses of 
animal feedingstuffs for particular nutritional purposes; 
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1070/2010 of 22 November 2010 amending Directive 
2008/38/EC by adding to the list of intended uses for a particular nutritional purpose the support of the metabolism of the joints in the case of osteoarthritis in dogs and cats; 
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 5/2014 of 6 January 2014 amending Directive 
2008/38/EC establishing a list of intended uses of animal feedingstuffs for particular 
nutritional purposes. G/TBT/N/CZE/184 
 
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  The submitted draft decree primarily contains requirements and details for the 
manufacture, import, use, packaging, labellin g, transportation, and marketing of feed, 
supplements, and premixes. The dr aft also contains more closely specified definitions used 
in the decree, basic descriptions and characteristics of individual spreadsheet annexes, 
feed requirements for special nutritional pu rposes, and for additives. The draft decree 
refines the administrative process for registration and approval of feed plants, stipulates 
requirements for the manufacturing facilities of feed manufacturers, and stipulates 
principles for the biolog ical testing of feeds. 
The objective of the submitted draft decree is to achieve full compatibility of national 
legislation with European regulations. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Existing legislation – Decree No. 356/2008, implementing Act No. 91/1996, on 
feedingstuffs, as amended, as amended by Decree No. 178/2009, Decree No. 169/2010, 
Decree No. 336/2010, Decree No. 198/2011 and Decree No. 25/2012, was deemed unsatisfactory.  
The adoption of the submitted decree shall project material changes into requirements 
stipulated for feed company operators that occurred due to the adoption of European Union legislation between 2009 and the first half of 2014. 
The new decree shall also update references to directly applicable European Union 
legislation and implementing provisions of the Feed Act, transpose Directive 2008/38/EC, 
and update the list of supplements in the annex to the decree. 
8. Relevant documents: Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No. 91/1996, on feedingstuffs, as 
amended. The basic texts were forwarded with an earlier notification: 2008/0051/CZ 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 September 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force: 16 September 2015   
10. Final date for comments: 11 August 2015 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Czech Office for Standard s Metrology and Testing 
National Enquiry Point P.O. Box 49 
Biskupský dvùr 1148/5 
110 00 Prague 1 Czech Republic 
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212 
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440 
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