. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/87
11 December 2003
(03-6551)
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 Health
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):   Drinking water,
frequency and extent of the drinking water control
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   A Draft Decree that
lays down Hygienic Requirements for Drinking and Warm Water, and the Extent of the
Drinking Water Control (24 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   This Decree lays down the hygienic limits of microbiological,
biological, physical, chemical, and organoleptic indexes of drinking water, bottled drinking
water included, and warm water supplied by supply water pipes or by installations insidebuildings conveying water designed as they are connected by mixer tap to water pipelines
for drinking water (hereafter “warm water”) as well as warm water produced from an
individual source intended for personal hygien e of employees.  The Decree also lays down
the frequency and extent of the drinking water control in observance of water quality and
requirements for control of drinking water quality methods.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human health and safety
8. Relevant documents:   Act No 110/1997 Coll., on Foodstuffs and Tobacco Products and on
Amendments of Some Acts, as amended; Act No 258/2000 Coll., on the Protection ofPublic Health, as amended by Act No 274/ 2003 Coll.;  Council Directive 98/83/EC on the
Quality of Water Intended for Human Cons umption; Decree No 292/1997 Coll., on
Requirements on Health Safety of Bottled Waters and on the Way of their Processing as
amended by Decree No 241/1998 Coll., and No 465/2000 Coll.G/TBT/N/CZE/87
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2004
10. Final date for comments:   29 December 2003
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:  enquiry point
[X] or address, e-mail and telefax number of the other body:
http://www.unmz.cz/, wto.tbt@unmz.cz