. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/295
29 June 2000
(00-2690)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
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
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):   Public health protection
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Act on Public Health
Protection (73 pages, in Czech)
6. Description of content:   The act regulates rights and duties of natural persons and
corporate bodies in the field of public health protection and support and organizes system ofpublic health protection bodies, scope of their activity and authority.
The purpose of this act is to cover following issues:
• care of living and working conditions by fortifying hygienic requirements of water
and products in direct contact with water, chemical substances, waterworks
technologies, swimming pools and saunas;
• a series of conditions for education and recreation of children and juveniles;
• hygienic requirements of the operation of  health facilities of preventive care and
social work institutions;
• hygienic requirements of the performance of epidemiologically relevant activities;
• hygienic requirements of articles for normal use, such as products intended for use
in contact with food, toys, cosmetics and products for children aged under three,
except toys and food;
• protection from noise, vibrations  and non-ionizing radiation;
• health protection at work;
• prevention of infectious diseases by vaccination and cooperation of public health
protection bodies with health facilities of preventive care;
• protective disinfection, disinsection and disinfestation;
• role of the civil service in the field of public health protection – tasks, rights and
duties of civil service bodies in public health protection (Ministry of Health,regional and district public health officers, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of the
Interior);
• legal regulations in the field of public health protection;
• penalties and administrative proceedings;
• adopting measures under extraordinary circumstances.G/TBT/Notif.00/295
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of public health
8. Relevant documents:
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2001
10. Final date for comments:   25 August 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:   wto.tbt@biskup.unmz.cz