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.

Pesticide Application Equipment

Topic:	Phytosanitary care

According to Act No. 326/2004 Coll., on phytosanitary care and on the amendments to certain related laws as amended and to Decree No. 207/2012 Coll., on professional pesticide application equipment, Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture exercises the following activities:

keeps records of professional pesticide application equipment,
controls the use of professional pesticide application equipment,
keeps and publishes list of drift reducing equipment on its website,
approves the inspection sites, where are professional pesticide application equipment inspected,
supervises the activities of the inspection sites and manages inspection system of professional pesticide application equipment in the Czech Republic.

Pesticide Application Equipment (PAE) used in the Czech Republic must be inter alia regularly inspected by the inspection site. Inspected are all groups of PAE that are used in business (professional pesticide application equipment) with the exception of a hand and knapsack sprayers.

Contact:

Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture
Agricultural Inputs Section
Ing. Tomáš Jedlička
vedoucí oddělení
Zemědělská 1752/1a, Černá Pole, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
mob. +420 602 472 248
tomas.jedlicka(at)ukzuz.cz