- It is a specialised body of the public administration established by the Ministry
  of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.
- It is an organisational unit of the state system.
- It is an administrative authority.

The Institute performs the administration and carries out some other administrative activities, expert and testing tasks and control and monitoring activities in accordance with special acts in the areas of viniculture, feedingstuffs, varieties, seeds and seedlings of the grown plants, protection of hops, fertilisers, soil improvers, growth regulators and substrates and agrochemical examination of agricultural soil, plant variety rights protection and in the area of the animal production.