Under Article 57 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 on veterinary medicinal products, from January 2023 all EU Member States are required to collect data on the use of antimicrobial MPs used in animals, taking into account the target animal species and product type. The report covers both veterinary and human MPs.
The obligation to report the use of MPs is regulated in Section 102b of Act No. 378/2007 Coll., on Pharmaceuticals, as amended.
The collection of data on the use of MPs since January 2023 concerns veterinarians providing veterinary therapeutic and preventive activities in commercial breeding for the following animal species: domestic cattle, domestic pig, domestic fowl and domestic turkey.
According to Commission Delegated Regulation 2021/578, from January 2026, the obligation to collect data on the use of MPs is extended to other species and categories of animals intended for food production (except horses!): domestic duck, domestic goose, domestic sheep, domestic goat, domestic horse, domestic rabbit and separately for the categories of common carp and rainbow trout.
In accordance with the above provisions, there will be three ways for veterinarians to report data on the use of antimicrobial MPs in specified animal species:
a) use of the application that will be provided by the USKVBL (this option is being prepared for launch from mid-2026),
b) use of "ordination" programmes owned or operated by veterinarians (this option is being prepared and will be available during 2026),
c) empowering third parties by veterinarians to send data, which includes, on the one hand, the possibility of using services under programmes managed by third parties, such as ‘herd’ programmes for breeders or distributors' information systems.
Now veterinarians have the possibility to send data on the use of MPs only through the last option, i.e. when data on the use of antimicrobial MPs in specified animal species are sent on the basis of a contract between the veterinarian and the distributor by the MP distributors.
The veterinarian is obliged to register with the USKVBL (Registration Form - veterinarians, registracevet - see below) and through it to inform the Institute of the fact that the distributor will report data on his behalf.
The form is in editable PDF format, so it can be filled in electronically after downloading. The name of the form is registracevet, which must be left without any changes. The form can only be sent to the USKVBL via the Institute’s data mailbox (ra7aipu). The same name must be entered as the name of the message, registracevet. Due to automated processing of registrations, it is required that the preset names of the form and data messages are fully preserved.
The distributor who provides this service to veterinarians sends a confirmation to the USKVBL (Registration form - distributor - see below). The distributor sends data on the use of MPs in the same way (i.e. in the same form, at the same frequency, and by warehouse) as it sends reports on the distribution of veterinary MPs. Detailed information can be found in the Manual - Distributors’ Manual - Report on the use of MPs on behalf of a veterinarian (see below).
A code list of species and categories of animals in CSV format is available here.
Contact point for reporting the use of MP:
Institute for State Control of Veterinary Biologicals and Medicines
Inspection Department
E-mail:
Co-funded by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA)
HADEA.A - Health and Food
A.2 - EU4Health/SMP Food
ASU_Czvet data call - SMP-FOOD-2022-AMRtool-AG-IBA, project No. 101103146
Documents are available only in Czech - at this link.