The Administration of State Material Reserves (“ASMR” or “Administration”) is the state administration’s central body in the sphere of crisis situations- related economic measures and state material reserves. It was established pursuant to Act No. 2/1969 Coll., on the Establishment of Ministries and Other Central State Administration Bodies, as amended.
ASMR’s competence is regulated, in particular, in Act No. 97/1993 Coll., on the Competence of the Administration of State Material Reserves, as amended.
In the Administration’s lead is the Chairman, who is appointed and discharged by the Government. The principles of the Administration’s activity and organization are stipulated in the Statute of the Administration of State Material Reserves approved by the Government Resolution No. 1293 of 3 December 2001.
The Administration’s principal missions are defined in
- Act No. 97/1993 Coll., on the Competence of the Administration of State Material Reserves, as amended,
- Act No. 241/2000 Coll., on the Economic Measures for Crisis Situations and on the Amendments to Certain Related Acts, as amended,
- Act No. 189/1999 Coll., on Emergency Oil Reserves and the Resolution of Oil Emergency and on the Amendments to Certain Acts (Emergency Oil Supplies Act), as amended.
Overview of the most important laws pertaining to ASMR’s activity
- Act No. 2/1969 Coll., on the Establishment of Ministries and Other Central State Administration Bodies, as amended;
- Act No. 97/1993 Coll., on the Competence of the Administration of State Material Reserves, as amended;
- Act No. 189/1999 Coll., on Emergency Oil Reserves and the Resolution of Oil Emergency and on the Amendments to Certain Related Acts (Emergency Oil Supplies Act), as amended;
- Decree No. 165/2013 Coll., on the Types of Oil, the Composition of Oil Products for Storage in the Emergency Oil Supplies, the Calculation of the Level of Emergency Oil Supplies, the Warehouse Facilities and the Reporting of Emergency Oil Supplies; as amended;
- Act No. 241/2000 Coll., on the Economic Measures for Crisis Situations and on the Amendments to Certain Related Acts, as amended;
- Act No. 240/2000 Coll., on the Crisis Procedure and the Amendments to Certain Acts (Crisis Act), as amended;
- Decree of the Administration of State Material Reserves No. 498/2000 Coll., on the Planning and Implementation of Economic Measures for Crisis Situations, as amended;
- Act No. 106/1999 Coll., on the Free Access to Information, as amended;
- Act No.134/2016 Coll., on Public Procurement, as amended;
- Act No. 412/2005 Coll., on the Protection of Classified Information and the Security-related Capacity, as amended;
- Act No. 218/2000 Coll., on the Budgetary Rules and the Amendments to Certain Related Acts (Budgetary Rules), as amended;
- Act No. 219/2000 Coll., on the Property of the Czech Republic and the Republic’s Position in Legal Relationships, as amended;
- Decree of the Ministry of Finance No. 62/2001 Coll., on the State Organizational Units’ and the State Organizations’ Business Management of State Property, as amended by Decree No. 569/2006 Coll.
- International Energy Programme (IEP) of the International Energy Agency of OECD countries (IEA) – Communication 43/2001 of the Collection of Treaties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Accession of the Czech Republic to the Agreement on the International Energy Programme.