WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.98.375
4 August 1998
(98-3068)
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 Agriculture
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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 and tobacco products
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Decree on the
Method of Defining Critical Points of Manufacture Technology (6 pages) in Czech
6. Description of content:  The Decree is drafted according to Article 18 letters (e) of the Act
No. 110/1997 Coll. on foodstuffs and tobacco products and on amendments to some
relevant acts which has been notified to the Members of WTO/TBT by means of the
notification G/TBT/Notif.96.213.
For the purpose of this Decree the critical point means a technology section, which
can be a procedure or a manufacture process operation, posing the highest level of risk of
impairing the health harmlessness of a foodstuff, and where the control of various dangers
(biological, chemical or physical element in a foodstuff, and conditions which affect it),
jeopardizing the harmlessness of a foodstuff is applied to prevent, rule out, or reduce thesedangers.
Annex:  Principles for the procedure of laying down the critical point system, and
order of their fulfilment.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer Protection
8.Relevant documents:
Act 110/97 Coll.
Official Journal of the COSMT
Collection of Laws
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 October 1998
10. Final date for comments:  21 August 1998
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body: