WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/33
7 February 2002
(02-0612)
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 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):   Foodstuffs
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree of the
Ministry of Agriculture No …/2002 Coll., Amending the Decree of the Ministry of
Agriculture No 147/1998 Coll., on the Means of Determining Critical Points in Production
Technology (4 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   The draft Decree regulates the ways of determining critical points
in production technology in foodstuffs.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To comply the Czech legal system with EC legislation.
8. Relevant documents:   Act No 110/1997 Coll., on Foodstuffs and Tobacco Products and
Amendments to Some Acts, as amended, Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture
No 147/1998 Coll., on the Means of Determining Critical Points in Production Technology,
Council Directive 93/94/EEC.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 April 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2002
10. Final date for comments:   22 March 2002
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