Updated on 02 09 2023

Form to notify a biostimulant in Czech (to be used for submission)

Form translated in English for comprehension purposes (machine translation/illustrative only)

Annexes to be submitted include:

• Label - instructions for use containing, in particular, the range and way of its use and the conditions for its storage, including the other obligations laid down in Section 7 of Act No. 156/1998 Coll. Label to be edited in Word (ie .doc, .docx formats) to the email address of the CISTA fertilizer department responsible for fertilizer (supplementary substance) notification
• Safety data sheet for a substance classified as dangerous according to Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals, establishing a European Chemicals Agency.
• Confirmation of authorized body that a product is not an explosive substance in accordance with Law No. 61/1988 Coll. 21, if a fertiliser contains nitrogen in the form of ammonium nitrate more than 27%.

Biostimulants fall under the Czech Fertiliser law dated June 12, 1998 (Zákon č. 156/1998 Sb.
Zákon o hnojivech, pomocných půdních látkách, rostlinných biostimulantech a substrátech a o agrochemickém zkoušení zemědělských půd (zákon o hnojivech).

The law on fertilisers, soil amendments, biostimulants and growth substrates also covers testing on agricultural soils.

This act lays down the conditions for placing on the market and the use of fertilisers and all products mentioned above. It does not apply to fertiliser mixtures though.

It contains details about the registration of fertiliser products, which has to be requested by an importer or manufacturer, such as what an application should contain.

Depending on the product/application, the Central Agricultural Inspection and Testing Institute will decide if the application will require biological testing (field or greenhouse).

Czech Republic has a very good website explaining how things work in terms of the placing on the market of biostimulants.

In a nutshell: biostimulants must be authorised before they can be placed on the Czech market, unless they are placed on the market under Mutual Recognition. The application is submitted with a form to be completed. The evaluation is done by CISTA. In case an application is submitted and no reponse received within 30 days, the authorisation can be considered to be granted (no response is positive response). In any case, CISTA (Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture) carries out controls (label, composition, etc.).

Details on the authorisation procedure can be found on the CISTA website.

The national fertiliser legislation is currently being updated. The related draft can be found here.

The national fertiliser registry can be found here.