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National Heritage Institute
The National Heritage Institute (in the table and further NPÚ/NHI) is a professional organisation established by the
Ministry of Culture. It provides support to the state administration in the area of protection of the interests of heritage
conservation. National Heritage Institute, Regional Department in Ústí nad Labem is the regional department
of the National Heritage Institute for the territory of the Ústecký Region. The institute provides written judgements
on the protection and restoration of cultural heritage assets and protected historical areas for the executive bodies
of the National Heritage Protection, which are Municipalities with extended power Žatec and Louny.

B.4.3.4 GOVERNANCE OF THE NATIONAL HOPS PROTECTION

NOMINATED PROPERTY LEGAL STATUS STATE ADMINISTRATION BODY AREA CONCERNED

Ministry of Agriculture
Žatec and the Landscape Includes the entire territory
Saaz Hop growing Region
of Saaz Hops Central Institute for Supervising and of the property
Testing in Agriculture

Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture is, according to Act No. 97/1996 Coll., On the Protection of Hops, the central state
administration body for agriculture, water management, the food industry, and for the management of forests, hunting,
and fishing, outside national parks.

The Ministry of Agriculture, in the section of agriculture and food industry, which is responsible for growing hops, also
manages the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority and the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing
in Agriculture, which ensures the certification of hops in the Czech Republic.

Certification guarantees domestic and foreign customers the origin and quality of hops. This process includes the
labelling of hops by the producer and the verification of the quality and origin by the institute. Only hops from hop
growing regions that meet EU quality requirements, and hop products made from it, are certified. The office of the 69
Hop Quality and Product Certification Department is located in component part 02 in the historical building of the Hop
Certification Centre in Žatec.

Through Regulation No 2081/92, the European Union protects the designations of origin and geographical indications for
selected regional agricultural products whose reputation extends beyond national borders and thus helps to promote
those products.

The Saaz hop growing region and the SAAZ HOP are entered in the Register of Protected Designations of Origin and
Protected Geographical Indications.