On 19 January 2026, the Czech Cabinet approved the draft Act on the Ecodesign of Products and on the Performance of State Administration in this Area and on Amendments to Related Acts (ref. no. 575/25) and forwarded it to the Chamber of Deputies for further legislative process (“Draft”). The Draft is available at this link.

The Draft is an adaptation act designed to ensure the effective application and enforcement in the Czech Republic of the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (“ESPR“). The explanatory material underlines the need to clearly allocate responsibilities among national authorities and to introduce an effective sanctions framework for breaches of ESPR obligations.

In substance, the Draft:

  • defines the institutional set-up for implementation (including the coordinating role of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, designation of the Office for Technical Standardization, Metrology and State Testingas the notifying authority, and cooperation with market surveillance and customs authorities);
  • introduces selected compliance duties for economic operators—such as ensuring that certain product-related documents and information made available in the Czech market are available in the Czech language(typically via the digital product passport), and

establishes an administrative offences and penalties regime, including enforcement tools linked to disclosure duties for discarded unsold products and the ban on destroying unsold consumer goods for certain product categories.

The Draft also amends related Czech legislation to align sectoral competence rules and market surveillance provisions with the new ESPR-based framework.

Czech BCSD systematically focuses on the area of ​​digital product passports. It is a co-investigator of the project entitled “Ecodesign and digital product passports as tools for waste prevention and higher plastic recycling”, which focuses on supporting ecodesign and implementing digital product passports in small and medium-sized companies in Czechia with the aim of increasing the material efficiency of products, reducing waste and improving the recycling of plastics and packaging. It is financed with state support from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic within the Environment for Life 2 Programme. The project runs until the end of 2026.

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