RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TBT/2
8November 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-3465)
Original: English Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OFTHE AGREEMENT
ONTECHNICAL BARRIERS TOTRADE
Thefollowing statement under Article 15.2oftheAgreement hasbeen received from the
delegation oftheCzech Republic.
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TheAgreementonestablishingtheWorldTradeOrganizationanditsintegralpart,theAgreement
onTechnical Barriers toTrade (hereinafter referred toastheTBTAgreement), afterhaving beenagreed
bytheParliament andratified bythePresident, havecome intoforce on1January 1995. Thefull
textoftheseAgreements andofother multilateral Agreements, hasbeenpublished under No.191/1995
intheCollection oflawsoftheCzech Republic (partition 51/1995).
Theobligationofrelevantnationalauthoritiestomeettherequirementsonnotificationprocedures
given bytheTBTAgreement isincorporated intothedraftlawontechnical requirements onproducts
which isnowbeing prepared.
InitsDecision No.394/94 from 13July1994, onresults ofministerial session ofTrade
Negotiations Committee ofUruguay Round andconcerning theimplementation bytheCzech Republic
ofresults ofUruguay Round Multilateral Trade Negotiations, theGovernment oftheCzech Republic
hascharged theMinistry ofEconomy withimplementing andadministration ofWTO Agreement on
Technical Barriers toTrade withitsexecution bytheCzech Office forStandards, Metrology andTesting
(COSMT).
Initsletterof31January1995totheWTOSecretariat,theCOSMTannouncedtheestablishment
ofaWTO Enquiry Point fortheCzech Republic, theonlyoneforthetimebeing, which isresponsible
forinformation obligations asstated inArticles 10.1and10.3respectively oftheTBTAgreement.
Thecontemporary address, telephone andfaxnumbers oftheEnquiry Point areasfollows:
ÚNMZ
(Czech Office forStandards, Metrology andTesting -COSMT)
WTO Enquiry Point
Václavské nám. 19
11347Praha 1
Tel: +42224.22.47.34
Fax: +42224.22.92.54
Asof1November 1995, theEnquiry Point willhavethefollowing address:
ÚNMZ/COSMT
WTO Enquiry Point
Biskupsk ýdvur5
11347Praha 1
Tel/fax: +42223.24.564
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Work proceeding onthedraft technical regulations, standards andconformity assessment
procedures isannounced intheOfficial Journal oftheCOSMT (VestníkÚNMZ), thepublishing of
which isgiven bylaw. Thetextsoftheadopted newtechnical regulations arepublished asfollows:
- lawsapproved bytheParliament, andsubsequent executing ordinances in:Collection
oflawsoftheCzech Republic.
Incompliance withtheAct142/1991 onCzechoslovak Technical Standards, thestandards
approved bytheCOSMT areannounced intheOfficial Journal oftheCOSMT. Fulltextsofadopted
standards arepublished bytheCzech Standards Institute (asubsidiary body oftheCOSMT).
TheCOSMT alsohas,initsletter of3July1995 senttotheISO/IEC Information Centre,
announced theacceptance oftheWTO Code ofGood Practice forthePreparation, Adoption and
Application ofStandards.
Incompliance withtheprovisions ofAct30/1968 onStateTesting (asamended), theadoption
ofconformity assessment procedures isannounced intheOfficial Journal oftheCOSMT.
Theexpectedlengthoftimeforsubmittingthecommentsinwritingondrafttechnicalregulations,
standards orconformity assessment procedures byother Members ofWTO is60days. Theperiod
starts ontheassumed dayofthenotification 'sarrival attheWTO Secretariat while respecting theother
Member 'srequest fortimeextension.
Inaccordance withthescheme developed bytheCOSMT, therelevant national authorities
haveassigned theofficers responsible forsubmitting early information totheWTO Enquiry Point on
work proceeded ondrafttechnical regulations, standards orconformity assessment procedures which
should benotified under theTBTAgreement.
Thenotifications fromotherWTO Members received bytheWTO Enquiry Point aredistributed
totherelevant authorities forcomments. Abriefinformation about eachreceived notification isalso
published intheOfficial Journal oftheCOSMT.