Government Decree No. 8 / 1953 Coll.
State Quality Inspection Regulation
Valid
Effective from 14.02.1953
8.
Government Regulation
of 20 January 1953
on a national quality inspection.
The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic, with the agreement of the President of the Republic pursuant to § 42 paragraph 1 of Act No. 241 / 1948 Coll., on the first five-year Economic Plan for the Development of the Czechoslovak Republic (Act on the Five-Year Plan):
In order to ensure continuous improvement of the quality of agricultural products purchased and delivered, mill products and feed (to the extent referred to in Section 4), a national quality inspection shall be established as a body of the Ministry of Purchase.
In particular, the tasks of the State Quality Inspection shall be:
(a) monitor that the quality of agricultural products, mill products and feed referred to in Article 4 (1) complies with the quality standards and is continuously improved;
(b) prevent losses in the quantities and qualities of such products;
(c) issue assessments and certificates of quality of these products, both domestic and imported.
(1) The Head of State Quality Inspection shall be the Chief Inspector appointed and dismissed by the Minister for Buying; in his work, the Chief Inspector shall follow the instructions of the Minister.
(2) The Chief Inspector is subordinate to the county inspectors; appoint and dismiss them by the Minister for Buying.
(3) The main inspector and the county inspectors have the necessary number of inspectors to carry out their activities.
(4) The personal office of State Quality Inspection personnel shall be the Ministry of Purchase.
(1) State quality inspections shall examine:
(a) the quality of cereals, leguminous vegetables, oilseeds, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, hay, straw flax, stalk hemp, hops, cattle, poultry, eggs and sheep wool for their purchase, storage and disposal, and for their import and export;
(b) the quality of edible milling products and by-milling products used for feeding purposes in their manufacture, storage in and disposal from manufacturers' warehouses, import and export;
(c) the quality of industrial feed, where manufactured or stored by undertakings subject to the Ministry of Purchase;
(d) the quality of other products the purchase or production of which is subject to the Ministry of Purchase, to the extent specified by the Minister for Purchase;
(e) warehouses intended for the storage of agricultural, mill products and feedingstuffs.
(2) In order to ensure the purchase of quality agricultural products, the authorities of the State quality inspection are also entitled to monitor the production of agricultural products and to verify the proper and timely compliance with production conditions in agricultural establishments.
National quality inspection authorities shall carry out their tasks on official or on a proposal from the authorities of the State, but may issue opinions and certificates on the quality of agricultural products and mill products and feed, even at the request of the agricultural plants of the State Socialist sector, single agricultural cooperatives, national and municipal undertakings, cooperatives and privileged companies for foreign trade.
(1) In the course of their activities, the authorities of a State quality inspection have the right to enter and inspect the premises and warehouses of authorised purchasers of agricultural products and producers of mill products and feed and to check the relevant records; the operators, after the staff of the undertakings and establishments examined, are obliged to provide them with the information necessary for the performance of their activities and to allow them to carry out the verifications.
(2) The authorities of the State Quality Inspection shall draw the attention of the heads of undertakings and establishments, and, where necessary, their superior bodies, to the defects identified and to the removal of them. Undertakings subject to the Ministry of Buying shall also be entitled to issue binding instructions to remedy the deficiencies identified.
The assessments and quality certificates of agricultural and mill products issued by the State Quality Inspection Authorities shall be binding on participants as well as on the authorities and other public administrations; However, they are not binding on the courts or the authorities of the State arbitration.
The authorities of a state quality inspection shall be responsible for damage caused by the malpractice of their activities.
The national quality inspection authorities shall be required to maintain national, economic and professional secrecy in matters which they learn in the course of their activities. This secrecy shall remain the responsibility of the public quality inspection staff even after leaving the service.
More detailed provisions for the implementation of this Regulation shall be issued by the Ministry of Buying in agreement with the central authorities involved.
The provisions of this Regulation shall not apply to seed and lard; State quality inspection bodies shall only examine the seed and seed and planting stock of undertakings subordinate to the Ministry of Buying.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication. They shall be carried out by the Minister for Buying in agreement with the Ministers involved.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Government Decree No. 8 / 1953 Coll., on State Quality Inspection |
|---|---|
| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 14.02.1953 |
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| Effective from | 14.02.1953 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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