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.
In accordance with the above provisions, there will in principle 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 January 2026),
b) use of "ordination" programmes owned or operated by veterinarians (option under preparation),
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 LPs only through the last option, i.e. when data on the use of antimicrobial LPs in specified animal species are sent on the basis of a contract between the veterinarian and the distributor by the LP distributors.
The veterinarian is obliged to register with the USKVBL (Form for Veterinarians - see below) and through it inform the USKVBL of the fact that the distributor will report the data on its behalf.
Please send the forms to the contact point indicated below.
The distributor who provides this service to veterinarians sends a confirmation to the USKVBL (Form for distributor - see below). The distributor sends data on the use of LPs 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 LPs. Detailed information can be found in the Manual - Distributors’ Manual - Report on the use of LPs 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 LP:
Institute for State Control of Veterinary Biologicals and Drugs
Hudcova 232/56a, 621 00 Brno
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