. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CZE/125 
10 March 2008 
 (08-1028) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated 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 Agriculture 
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):    
a) Feeding stuffs, additives and premixes (requi rements relating to production, import, use, 
labelling and introduction into circulation); 
b) Feeding stuffs for particular nutritional purposes (foodstuffs for reducing the risk of milk fever). 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree 
implementing Act No 91/1996 Coll., on feeding stuffs, subsequently amended (21 pages, in 
Czech). 
6. Description of content: The draft comprises:  
a) a transposition of the EC Directive on animal nutrition into a Decree implementing the Act on feeding stuffs, within the meaning of Act No 214/2008 Coll., amending Act No 
91/1996 on feeding stuffs, subsequently ame nded. The draft transposes all valid EC 
directives in this field. Annex 2 on unwanted substances also transposes Commission Directive 2006/77/EC amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maxi mum levels for organochlorine compounds in 
animal feed.  
 
As a national law, the draft also provides detailed content of the annexes concerning 
applications for the approval and registration of establishments pursuant to Articles 9 and 10 
of Regulation No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on feed hygiene, and provisions relating to the control of hazar ds in primary production pursuant to this 
Annex I, Part A-1(3) of this Regulation;  
 
b) a transposition of Commission Directive 2008/4/EC amending Directive 94/39/EC as regards feeding stuffs intended for the reduction of the risk of milk fever. A supplement on 
new use is laid down in Annex 10 to the draft Decree. G/TBT/N/CZE/125 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
a) The draft Decree replaces current Decree No  451/2000 Coll., implementing the Act on 
feeding stuffs, subsequently amended, as requ ested by the abovementioned proposed law on 
feeding stuffs No 214/2007 Coll., of 18 July 2007. The original concept of the Act on feeding stuffs was significantly altered via th e amendment, owing to a number of directly 
applicable European Community (EC) regulati ons. It therefore became necessary to draw 
up a new implementing law, regarding which the draft Decree has been submitted for 
notification. 
The draft Decree is authorised in the Act. It transposes all directives in the area of animal 
nutrition and removes ambiguities arising fro m the current Decree. For example, only 
additives authorised pursuant to Council Direc tive 70/524/EEC via certain sections of EC 
Directives that remain valid are included in th e draft. No list of additives authorised by EC 
regulations has been included. The draft also refers to as additives substances pursuant to 
parts of Council Directive 82.471/EEC consider ed as additives in Regulation No 1831/2003 
of the European Parliament and the Counc il on additives for use in animal nutrition. 
The transposition of abovementioned directiv es has been detailed exhaustively, including 
the acceptance of all annexes in the form of tables or text. The detailed content of the annexes con cerning applications for the approval and 
registration of establishments pursuant to Articles 9 and 10 of Regulation No 183/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on feed hygiene, and provisions relating to the control of hazards in primary production pursuan t to this Annex I, Part A-1, of this 
Regulation, falls under the competence of the Member States. 
 b) Pursuant to Article 2 of the abovementione d Directive, the Member States must bring 
into force the legislation required for complian ce with this Directive by 24 June 2008 at the 
latest by transposing Commission Directive 2008/4/EC amending Directive 94/39/EC as 
regards feeding stuffs intended for the reduction of  the risk of milk fever. For this reason, 
Annex 10, on particular animal  nutritional purposes, has been added. The purpose of this 
Decree is to fulfil the transposition obligations. 
8. Relevant documents:   a) The Ministry of Agriculture  is authorised to issue a decree 
implemented by Act No 91/1996 Coll., on feeding stuffs, within the meaning of Act No 214/2007/Coll., with which the Decree complies. Powers of execution 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }15  May 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   30 April 2008 
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