WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/25
24 January 2002
(02-0361)
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 Industry and Trade
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
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  ):  Draft Amendment
of Act No 22/1997 Coll., on Technical Requirements for Products and on Amendments to
Some Acts, as last amended (8 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   The purpose of this draft amendment is to meet all obligations of
the Czech Republic as the EU member state by the date of its accession to the EU. It
involves the field of harmonisation of protection of justified concern and of free movement
of products as well. On the basis of experience with enforcement of the Act a series of more
precised formulations have been made including the modification of the use of the Czechmark of conformity in non-harmonized area at the full membership of the Czech Republic
in the EU.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  To
comply the Czech legal system with EC legislation and elimination of present dual
declaration of conformity system, where aside from valid CE marking for PECA is still
applied declaration of conformity in writing for non-PECA sectors and for the third
countries. Another modifications are related to article 7 with more precisely formulatedempowering of the Czech Government for the implementation of directive 98/34/EC. Other
modifications are of formal nature.
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 98/34/EC of the Europen Parliament and of the Council.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  the date of entering of the Agreement on Accession of
the Czech Republic to the EU into force, except the modifications of formal nature which
will enter into force after promulgation of the Act.
10. Final date for comments:   30 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