New 33 substances under control in the Czech Republic

The unauthorized handling of these new NPS shall therefore be prosecuted as a criminal offence or an administrative offence (misdemeanour) as in the case of other NPS.

The amendment (Act No. 106/2011 Coll.) is downladable from the website of the website Sbirka zakonu (Czech only) or the Portal of Public Administration: http://portal.gov.cz/zakon/106/2011 and the whole Act is downloadable under http://portal.gov.cz/zakon/167/1998

Since the „amounts larger than small“ (as treshold quantities distinguishing criminal offence and misdemeanour in the case of possession of NPS for personal use or cultivation of plants containing NPS for personal use) are fixed in Government Decrees No. 455/2009 Coll. and 467/2009 Coll. , it was necessary to amend these two decrees as well, after deciding on the amounts larger than small in relation to the new 33 NPS; the before mentioned decrees, as well as the decree 454/2009 Coll., has been amended by the government resolutions No 881, 882 and 880 (from 30. 11. 2011. For details of the government resolutions see the documents of the Czech Government, and for the full text see the Portal of Public Administration (in the Czech language only).