Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture

The Institute performs the administration and carries out some other administrative activities, expert and testing tasks and control and monitoring activities in accordance with special acts in the areas of plant variety testing, feedingstuffs, agrochemical testing of soils, soils and plant nutrition, seeds and seedlings of the grown plants, perennial plants (viniculture and hops), protection against harmful organisms and plant protection.

Swiss-Czech Co-operation Programme

Development of guidelines for handling pesticide analysis in organic inspection in the Czech Republic (sampling, evaluation and interpretation).

This project from the Swiss-Czech Cooperation Programme (managed on the Czech side by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic) was implemented under the Partnership Fund, which is focused on gaining experience, best practice and know-how from partner institutions from Switzerland. The lead partner and coordinator of the project was Bioinstitut p.s.c., partners were ÚKZÚZ and FiBL Frick (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Switzerland). The main objective of the project was the transfer of know-how in the field of control, proof of pesticide residues in organic products and prevention of not-intended contaminations by exogenous substances in organic farming into the control system of the Czech Republic.

Above the planned activities, the project outputs were presented on EU Organic Congress in Lithuania on 3rd July 2013 and discussed with representatives of the European Commission (Organic unit - DG Agri).

Realisation period: 2012-2013