2020/0089/CZ
EC/EFTA
CZ Czech Republic
  • C00C - CHEMICALS
2020-05-27
2020-03-03

Handling of toxic chemicals and their precursors, including substances on the schedules of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

Draft Act amending Act No 19/1997 on certain measures related to the prohibition of chemical weapons and on amendments to Act No 50/1976 on spatial planning and the Building Code (the Building Act), as amended, Act No 455/1991 on business activities (the Trading Act), as amended, and Act No 140/1961, the Criminal Code, as amended, as amended, and other related acts

The draft amendment to Act No 19/1997 comprises, in particular:

- amended definitions of legal terms and overall terminological changes,

- a conceptual broadening of the prohibition of certain types of handling to cover broader categories of substances, in accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction,

- legislative and technical amendments in response to the latest developments in law-making,

- new provisions regarding administrative sanctioning.