{"id":305,"date":"2024-05-15T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unmz-wp.e-bs.cz\/?page_id=305"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:32:58","slug":"commission-on-technical-trade-regulations-ktpo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/mezinarodni-vztahy\/ramcove-vztahy-eu\/komise-pro-technicke-prekazky-obchodu-ktpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission on Technical Barriers to Trade (KTPO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commission for Technical Barriers to Trade was established by Decision of the Minister of Industry and Trade No.189 of 25 October 2002,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmz.gov.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/USNESEN\u00cd.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Following the Government Resolution No. 232<\/a>\u00a0of 6 March 2002 and in accordance with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmz.gov.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Z\u00e1sady.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">of Principles<\/a>\u00a0for the management and coordination of the process of adoption and application of EC technical regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\">The main mission of the KTPO is to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">create conditions to ensure interdepartmental cooperation,<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">coordinate and manage the technical harmonisation process,<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">ensure exchange of information and cooperation with labour authorities, institutions and organisations active in related fields, including the economic and social partners.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commission is an advisory body to the Minister of Industry and Trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman: Chairman of \u00daNMZ, currently Ing. J. Kratochv\u00edl<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary: Director of the International Relations Department of \u00daNMZ, currently Ing. J. Kafkov\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00daNMZ also provides the secretariat of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commission is expected to meet at least twice a year. Archive of meetings held\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/international-relations-2\/frame-relationships-eu\/commission-on-technical-trade-regulations-ktpo\/archive-sessions-ktpo\/\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/seznam-clenu-ktpo_04_2026-1.docx\">List of KTPO members<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The competence of the KTPO is defined in the Decision of the Minister of Industry and Trade\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmz.gov.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rozhodnut\u00ed-ministra-\u010d.docx\">\u010d. 189\/2002<\/a>.  The basic duties of the Chairperson, Secretary and members of the Commission are set out in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmz.gov.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jednaci-rad-Komise-pro-technicke-prekazky-obchodu.docx\">Rules of Procedure of KTPO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the first meeting of the representatives of the ministries, which took place on 10 December 2002, the representatives of the ministries were invited to nominate their representatives to the so-called sub-commissions, which are as of that date:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>1) Notification Subcommission - 2015\/1535\/EU\u00a0<\/b>(ve vztahu ke sm\u011brnici\u00a0 2015\/1535\/EU) <a href=\"\/en\/eu9834@unmz.gov.cz\/\">(eu9834@unmz.gov.cz)<\/a> a <b>Notification Subcommission - TBT\u00a0<\/b>(in relation to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade) <a href=\"mailto:wto.tbt@unmz.gov.cz\">(wto.tbt@unmz.gov.cz);<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>2) ECE\/UN Subcommission\u00a0<\/b>(following the activities of the Working Party 6 on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization (WP.6) of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, which is now also focusing on market surveillance; currently the Czech Republic is represented by the employee of \u00daNMZ - Ing. Miroslav Chloupek). The aim of the creation of this subcommission is to ensure the cooperation of individual ministries in this area (e.g. comments on WP.6 materials, processing of information, etc.) - the subcommission is coordinated by RNDr. Kl\u00e1ra Popadi\u010dov\u00e1 (<a href=\"mailto:klara.popadicova@unmz.gov.cz\">klara.popadicova@unmz.gov.cz<\/a>);<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3) Subcommission on Regulation 1025\/2012<\/strong> - the aim of the creation of this subcommission is to ensure a discussion of the documents submitted to the Committee with all stakeholders at the national level and to prepare a unified position of the Czech Republic - the coordination of the subcommission is provided by Ing. Miroslav \u010cerm\u00e1k (<a href=\"mailto:extrel@unmz.gov.cz\">extrel@unmz.gov.cz<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Note from the SOGS subcommission -\u00a0<\/b>as of 12 June 2013, the subcommission was abolished due to the termination of the European Commission's Advisory Group on Standardisation and Conformity Assessment (SOGS), which was replaced by the Group of Experts on the Internal Market for Products (IMP), which is divided into three subgroups, as of 1 January 2013:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\">a)\u00a0\u00a0<i>IMP Working Group on Accreditation and Conformity Assessment (participation in the meetings is ensured by \u00daNMZ);<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\">b)\u00a0\u00a0<em>IMP Working Group on Market Surveillance\u00a0<\/em><em>(participation in the meetings is ensured by the CTIA)<\/em><em>;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\">c)\u00a0\u00a0<em>IMP Working Group on Information and Communication System of Market Surveillance <\/em><em>(participation in the meetings is ensured by the CTIA)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where a representative has not been nominated for each subcommittee, the duly appointed KTPO member remains a member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the request of the invited economic and social partners, the CTPO, including its subcommittees, is expanded to include these representatives. Directories for all sub-commissions are compiled and kept up to date and distributed to members for information and use.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KTPO Secretariat, Biskupsk\u00fd dv\u016fr 1148\/5, 110 00 Prague 1, Secretary Ing. Jindra Kafkov\u00e1, tel. 221 802 194, e-mail: ktpo@unmz.gov.cz<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komise pro technick\u00e9 p\u0159ek\u00e1\u017eky obchodu byla v\u00a0n\u00e1vaznosti na usnesen\u00ed vl\u00e1dy \u010cR\u00a0\u010d. 232\u00a0ze dne 6. b\u0159ezna 2002 a ve smyslu\u00a0Z\u00e1sad\u00a0pro \u0159\u00edzen\u00ed a koordinaci\u00a0 procesu p\u0159ij\u00edm\u00e1n\u00ed a uplat\u0148ov\u00e1n\u00ed technick\u00fdch p\u0159edpisu ES z\u0159\u00edzena Rozhodnut\u00edm ministra pr\u016fmyslu a obchodu \u010d. 189 ze dne 25.\u00a0\u0159\u00edjna 2002 Hlavn\u00ed posl\u00e1n\u00ed\u00a0 KTPO je zejm\u00e9na: vytv\u00e1\u0159et podm\u00ednky pro zaji\u0161t\u011bn\u00ed meziresortn\u00ed spolupr\u00e1ce, zaji\u0161\u0165ovat koordinaci a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-305","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12580,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions\/12580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}