{"id":570,"date":"2024-05-15T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unmz-wp.e-bs.cz\/?page_id=570"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:18:17","slug":"basic-information-about-the-activities-of-the-information-centre-wto-tbt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/mezinarodni-vztahy\/wto-tbt\/informacni-stredisko-wto-tbt\/zakladni-informace-o-cinnosti-informacniho-strediska-wto-tbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic information on the activities of the WTO\/TBT Information Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

WTO\/TBT Information Centre<\/b>\u00a0was established pursuant to Article 10 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), which is an integral part of the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Act No. 22\/1997 Coll., on Technical Requirements for Products, as amended.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\nText of the Czech version of the Agreement<\/a><\/p>\n

In order to\u00a0zoom in<\/strong>\u00a0to all stakeholders, in particular SMEs, in a simple and illustrative way\u00a0the purpose of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade<\/strong>, the European Commission has produced a video which is available at the link below:\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/czClLU3pdqk<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

The role of the WTO\/TBT Information Centre (hereinafter referred to as IS)<\/b>\u00a0is to answer reasonable questions from other Members and interested parties of other Members, and to provide relevant documentation regarding adopted or proposed technical regulations in the Czech Republic (10.1.1) and any conformity assessment procedures or proposed conformity assessment procedures that are applied in our territory (10.1.3).<\/p>\n

IS provides\u00a0<\/b>documentation to Czech stakeholders from the public and private spheres upon request and answers their questions.
\nThe contact e-mail address of IS is\u00a0wto.tbt@unmz.gov.cz<\/a>.<\/u><\/i><\/p>\n

To inform the professional public\u00a0IS prepares weekly reports<\/strong>\u00a0on the draft technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures notified by the Members of the Agreement and published by the WTO Secretariat in English and Czech, which are published on the \u00daNMZ website -\u00a0Notification of Members of the Agreement<\/a>. It also prepares\u00a0monthly reports<\/b>\u00a0on these notifications, which are published in the Bulletin of the Office under Section B - Information and are also available on the internet -\u00a0\u00daNMZ Journal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>Individual notifications to selected central administrative authorities and private sector entities are sent automatically to members of the Agreement according to their content.<\/p>\n

IS provides<\/b>\u00a0the fulfilment of the notification obligations of the Czech Republic under the provisions of Articles 2.9 and 5.6 of the Agreement and on the basis of Act No. 22\/1997 Coll., on Technical Requirements for Products, as amended.<\/p>\n

IS announces<\/b>\u00a0the WTO Secretariat with drafts of any Czech technical regulations or conformity assessment procedures that may have a significant effect on the trade of other Members.<\/b><\/p>\n

The IS shall ensure that comments from other members of the Agreement on these proposals are addressed.<\/p>\n

Since 1 May 2004, the Czech Republic notifies to the WTO Secretariat only draft technical regulations falling within the non-harmonised sphere that may create technical barriers to trade. Draft EU regulations with technical content that will be implemented in the legislation of EU Member States are notified to the WTO Secretariat by the Commission. The Commission also responds to questions and comments from Members on draft technical regulations notified by the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

The WTO\/TBT Clearinghouse provides a link for businesses, manufacturers, importers to\u00a0<\/b>European Commission database:\u00a0http:\/\/madb.europa.eu\/mkaccdb2\/indexPubli.htm<\/a>\u00a0 to facilitate access to third country (non-EU) markets. The database allows you to find out, before the intended transaction, the applicable customs duties, import formalities and administrative requirements of a given country, based on information searched by a combination of the following criteria: country, industry or service sector, measure.
\nThe database includes a register where complaints can be made to the European Commission about barriers to international trade with these countries.<\/p>\n

The contact point in the Czech Republic is:<\/b><\/p>\n

Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing
\nBiskupsk\u00fd dv\u016fr 1148\/5
\n110 00 Prague 1<\/p>\n

Ing. Jindra Kafkov\u00e1<\/p>\n

tel: 221 802 194<\/p>\n

e-mail:\u00a0wto.tbt@unmz.gov.cz<\/a><\/p>\n

Information from regular meetings of the Contact Points under the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

2012<\/a>\u00a0(DOCX; 14 kB),\u00a02013<\/a>\u00a0(DOCX; 18 kB),\u00a02014<\/a>\u00a0(DOC; 41 kB),\u00a02015<\/a>\u00a0(DOC; 5 253 kB)\u00a02016<\/a>\u00a0(DOCX; 18,2 kB)\u00a02019<\/a>\u00a0(DOCX; 16.7 kB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Informa\u010dn\u00ed st\u0159edisko WTO\/TBT\u00a0bylo z\u0159\u00edzeno podle \u010dl. 10 Dohody o technick\u00fdch p\u0159ek\u00e1\u017ek\u00e1ch obchodu (TBT), kter\u00e1 je ned\u00edlnou sou\u010d\u00e1st\u00ed Dohody o z\u0159\u00edzen\u00ed Sv\u011btov\u00e9 obchodn\u00ed organizace (WTO) a z\u00e1kona \u010d. 22\/1997 Sb., o technick\u00fdch po\u017eadavc\u00edch na v\u00fdrobky, v\u00a0platn\u00e9m zn\u011bn\u00ed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Text \u010desk\u00e9 verze Dohody S c\u00edlem\u00a0p\u0159ibl\u00ed\u017eit\u00a0v\u0161em zainteresovan\u00fdm subjekt\u016fm, zejm\u00e9na mal\u00fdm a st\u0159edn\u00edm podnik\u016fm, jednoduch\u00fdm\u00a0a n\u00e1zorn\u00fdm zp\u016fsobem\u00a0\u00fa\u010del Dohody o technick\u00fdch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":558,"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":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions\/12502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmz.gov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}