. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/18
13 August 2001
(01-3986)
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 Transport and Communications
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):   Vehicles – type
approval, conditions for operation on roads.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree of the
Ministry of Transport and Communications on Approval of Technical Roadworthiness and
Technical Conditions for the Operation of Vehicles on Roads (37 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   The draft Decree contains the definition of basic terms,
description of procedure of type approval of  technical roadworthiness of vehicle, multilevel
type approval of road vehicle, approval of  technical worthiness of systems, construction
parts and separate technical units, approval of vehicle manufactured single or in small
batches, approval of special vehicle, specimen of certificate concerning to type approval of
vehicle, designation of vehicle and its parts, definition of technical requirements for
vehicles of all categories, conditions for rebuilding of road vehicle, description of
obligatory equipment of motor vehicles and towed vehicles, description of technical
requirements for supplementary devices of vehicle, location of registration plate, description
of vehicle’s defects endangered the road safety, division of test stations and description ofprocedures for acquirement of professional qualification for conducting of technical
supervision of vehicles before approval of their technical worthiness, transitional and final
provisions. The annexes include the tables of technical UN ECE regulations and EEC/EC
Directives for vehicles, constituting so called “regulation basis”. Relating to EEC/EC
Directives this basis represents the implementation procedure of EC law into Czechlegislation.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The draft Decree is issued for implementation of Act No 56/2001 Coll. on conditions for the
operation of vehicles on roads.G/TBT/N/CZE/18
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8. Relevant documents:   Act No 56/2001 Coll., on conditions for the operation of vehicles on
roads and on amendment of the Act No 168/1999 Coll., on insurance against civil liability
in respect of use of vehicles and on amendments of some related Acts (Act on insurance
against civil liability in respect of use of vehicles), as last amended by ActNo 307/1999 Coll., relevant EEC/EC Directives.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  September 2001
10. Final date for comments:   15 September 2001
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:  www.unmz.cz ,
wto.tbt@unmz.cz