The main task of NZIS in general is according to § 70 paragraph 1 of Act No. 372/2011 Coll. i.a. "to provide timely data on the health status of the population in order to obtain information on the scope and quality of health services, for the management and creation of health policy". The NRNP monitors the development of the incidence and structure of occupational diseases, or risk of occupational diseases. The purpose of obtaining the required data is to obtain information on occupational diseases as a basis for the creation of national health policy, for analyzes of problems in the field of occupational health protection, for scientific research, for education in the field and for international comparison.

The National Register of Occupational Diseases NRNP is a continuous continuation of long-term statistical monitoring, carried out since 1973 through reports. Since its establishment in 1991, the register has been maintained by the Occupational Medicine Center of the State Health Institute in Prague as the Central Register of Occupational Diseases. Act No. 156/2004 Coll. was included under the name "National Register of Occupational Diseases" among the health registers that make up the National Health Information System (NZIS), now enshrined in Act No. 372/2011 Coll. , about health services. The administrator of the NRNP is the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, the processor is the Center for Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Medicine of the State Health Institute in Prague.

Register data are used by the ÚZIS, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the SZÚ, the Czech Statistical Office. The published data are also used by specialists in the field of occupational medicine and occupational hygiene, KHS, doctors of the assessment service and others for the purpose of statistical and economic analyses.

After the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004, NRNP was connected to the statistical system of the Statistical Office of the European Union (EUROSTAT). As part of international cooperation, information on occupational diseases and the risk of occupational diseases reported in the Czech Republic is transmitted annually to Eurostat to the European Occupational Diseases Statistics (EODS) system, then to the World Health Organization (WHO), to the European Health for all (HFA) system and to International Labor Organization (ILO).

Statistical unit of inquiry: On the basis of Ministry of Health Decree No. 373/2016 Coll. every recognized occupational disease or threat of occupational disease according to the valid List of occupational diseases, arising in connection with the performance of work for an employer based in the Czech Republic, is subject to reporting. A case of an occupational disease or a risk of occupational disease is subject to reporting after the medical opinion on the recognition of the disease, issued by an authorized health service provider, has taken legal effect.

The report is also subject to the decision of the authorized center for occupational diseases on the termination of the occupational disease or the threat of the occupational disease. In this case, the date from which the person no longer suffers from NzP or the threat of NzP is reported to the current case in the NRNP records.

Circle of intelligence units: The obligation to report is according to the annex to Decree No. 373/2016 Coll. every provider who recognized an occupational disease according to § 66 of Act No. 373/2011 Coll. , on specific health services as amended. On the basis of this legal regulation, providers in the field of occupational medicine who have been granted permission to recognize occupational diseases by the Ministry of Health, so-called occupational disease centers, submit reports to the register. Their list and territorial management are available in continuously updated form on the website of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic .

The guarantors of reporting to the NRNP are the relevant centers for occupational diseases. An essential part of the report is also the data from the hygiene assessment, which is provided by the relevant regional hygiene station, in the listed special cases SÚJB, MV or MO, hereinafter referred to as KHS. § 62, paragraph 3 of Act No. 373/2011 Coll .

The report and de-registration are submitted to the administrator and processor of the NRNP only electronically, no later than the tenth day of the calendar month following the month in which the medical opinion took legal effect.