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.

PRA in the Czech Republic

According to the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), one of the NPPO obligations is to conduct PRAs.

In the Czech Republic, ÚKZÚZ is responsible for conducting PRAs on the basis of the Act No. 326/2004 Coll., on phytosanitary care, as amended. The PRA procedure also covers the cooperation with other institutions, first of all with the Scientific Committee on Phytosanitary and Environment. If it results from a completed PRA that e.g. existing EU phytosanitary measures should be revised, or national emergency measures are to be taken, the PRA document is submitted to the European Commission and other Member States for consultation.