1. Trade Licensing Offices

CTI cooperates very closely with Trade Licensing Offices. The relationship between both institutions is excellent, as required by the government directive No. 1316 from November 15, 2006. Mutual inspections performed by the CTI employees and the city Trade Licensing Offices employees are based on the Coordination agreement, concluded between the CTI and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, describing the performance of inspections. These inspections are focused on regulations, where the authorities of both  bodies overlap or they share the same authority as described by law No. 634/1992 Coll., the Consumer protection law, law No. 353/2003 Coll., the Consumer tax law and law No. 247/2006 Coll., describing limitations regarding the operation of pawnshops and other establishments operating during night time.

The cooperation also includes consultation of methodical procedures, information exchange and mutual utilization and sharing of inspection authorities and powers, used and applied during supervising activities.

2. Cell General directorate

The actual cooperation is based on agreements, concluded on the level of each CTI inspectorates, and between applicable customs directorates and bodies. It is focused on inspection coordination planning, unification of application methods of legal principles and norms, elimination of double inspections and adjustment of functional system for information sharing. In reality, this cooperation is seen as a coordination process of inspections, which is based on mutually agreed methodical procedures and juridical cooperation, if applicable office or body reports alleged violations of legal regulations to the applicable authority.

Mutual inspections are focused primarily on the sale of goods that violate intellectual property rights. These inspections are done mostly in market places located close to the border.

Overall lack of interest in such cooperation, based mostly on experiences of the past, was broken, when cooperation agreement, describing methods of cooperation for the year 2007, was concluded. Additional cooperation is in the planning.  Directors of CTI inspectorates are responsible for the realization of the future corporation.

3. Czech telecommunication order

The cooperation agreement has been concluded in the second half of the year 2007. Applicable and relevant contact information of the ČTÚ employees and CTI inspectorates have been exchanged. Also the preparation processes have been started.  Such as the preparation process to help realize mutual inspections, but namely preparations helping with the process of familiarization with the ČTÚ equipment, which may be used for measuring procedures outdoors or in laboratories.

A work group has been established, dealing with the clarification of unclear cases. This group presented 30 mutual topics, regarding processes when goods are being introduced to the market, as well as other processes such as distribution, the sale and use of radio telecommunication end-units and proposals of electronic communication services that need to be precisely determined and limited. A mutual goal of both parties is to make the cooperation more effective, so proposals, consumer questions or technical questions or ideas may be shared easily and lastly to unify ČTÚ and CTI inspectorates processes relevant to the above-mentioned issues.

4. Czech environmental inspection

The mutual goal of the cooperation is not only the inspection process, but mainly preventive measures that would lower the sale of products manufactured from waste (alternative fuel sources, construction materials, etc.), which do not comply with legislative requirements or with the manufacturer statements.

Cooperation agreement for the year 2008 between the CTI and ČIŽP has been concluded in November 2007 and it is focused on the inspections of establishments collecting recycling materials, (such as junkyards) and on manufacturers and importers of packed products. The applicable representatives of CTI and ČIŽP inspectorates will be responsible for the coordination of these inspections. 

5. The police

CTI also cooperates with various police branches, mainly with the police of the Czech Republic, foreign police, border police and city police. This cooperation is done on the level of inspectorates and focuses mainly on inspections of sold goods which violate some intellectual property rights, the sale of alcohol to young people, on establishments collecting recycling materials, second-hand stores, taxi companies etc. Mutual authority is used during mutual inspections. The police makes sure that inspectors are safe during high-risk inspections and helps with the process of personal identification.  On the other hand, the CTI provides the police with cooperation and during proceedings when criminal activities of the inspected persons needs to be verified and proved.  To do so, the CTI utilizes its right to enter warehouses, workshops and to do inspection purchasing/shopping. Mutual inspections are always fully coordinated, in order to prevent unwanted double inspections and to make sure that the inspection is effective as much as possible.

The directorate of the foreign police and border police provides the CTI (when asked) necessary data about foreign businessmen who stay in the Czech Republic for a long time and repeatedly break legal regulations or they try to obstruct court all legal decisions.

6. Professional associations and groups  

An inseparable part of the CTI activities is cooperation with professional associations and groups, which try to protect consumer interests and improve consumer protection policy by utilizing prevention methods. These CTI partners are:

APEK association of companies, businessmen and professionals involved in electronic commercial business

Association of travel agencies

Association of hotels and restaurants in the Czech Republic

Association of inspection organizations

Association of packaging material management

Association of gas consuming and distributing equipment

Association of laundromats and dry cleaners

Association of glass and ceramic industry

Association of consumer electronics

Association of elevator manufacturers

Association of Czech oil industries and trade

The Czech chamber of authorized engineers and technicians

The Czech natural gas union

The Czech anti-piracy union)

International Federation of music industry)

Association of importers and manufacturers of automotive parts and servicing equipment

Association of trade and industry

Association of trade and tourism

Medical equipment manufacturer association

Association of packaging materials

7. Professional cooperation on the methodical field

Applicable contracts regarding the cooperation with all supervisory bodies in the Czech Republic providing the necessary extension of the CTI authority, or who share the authority with the CTI, have been concluded or renewed. This mainly concerns the performance of state inspections and supervisory services focusing on selected technological equipment that have been transformed into applicable products, pursuant to the Rule No. 22/1997 Coll., (for example pressure, gas, electrical, lifting and transportation equipment, which is used and operated as a manufacturing machines and therefore contains accumulated energy). In this field, ideas and proposals to perform inspections are mutually shared. These inspections are focusing on operations and on the use of technological and technical equipment, as well as on products use, which caused the occurrence of an emergency situation (e.g. the State labour inspection office, railway office, etc.)

CTI successfully cooperates with the Office for technical normalization and state testing (ÚNMZ) and with MPO (the ÚNMZ cooperation contract). The CTI always stressed the importance of the technical Legislature, which helps to link activities together properly.