In the sphere of state material reserves, the ASMR executes the right of managing reserves and provides all policy-making and executive activities principally associated with their generation, keeping and utilisation.
The generation of state material reserves is encompassed in emergency contingency plans. The ASMR makes sure that resources are contracted pursuant to the requirements of central government agencies. Furthermore, the ASMR supports their financing, renewal, replacement, lending, release, hiring, sale, storage, keeping and inspection.
From the viewpoint of their purpose, the state material reserves divide into material reserve, mobilisation reserve, emergency reserve and humanitarian aid reserve.
The ASMR provides a coordination role in planning and supporting emergency economic measures. As a matter of priority, the ASMR makes use of material resources of private business entities, and, according to requirements by subject-matter Ministries, the ASMR generates and manages material reserves in commodities, whose ordinary production would not cover for increased consumption in state of crisis/emergency.
Material reserveinvolves selected primary raw materials, materials, semiproducts and products, designated for supporting national defence capability, for consequence management efforts following emergencies as well as for the protection of vital national economic interests. The material reserve chiefly includes primary mineral inputs for oil, metallurgical, chemical, textile and food industry. A decisive portion of the material reserve comprises an emergency stockpile of oil and selected petroleum products in quantity and structure according to requirements under the Act No.189/1999 Coll., on Emergency Oil Reserve, as amended, which implements in the Czech legal order the European Commission Directive No.1968/414/EHS, amended by EC Directive No.1998/93/ES.
Mobilisation reserve comprises primary raw materials, materials, semiproducts, products, machines and other property designated for ensuring the production of necessary assets for armed forces and armed security services, especially for the state of war or the state of national war threat.
Emergency reserve includes selected primary materials and products, designated principally to ensure critical supplies to sustain the needs of the population and for operations of emergency services and fire rescue service units. The reserve is generated in the case when the necessary materials and products in support of crisis management are not available on national territory in necessary quantity and/or in given timeframe.
Humanitarian aid reserve comprises selected primary materials and products designated for a definite period of time to sustain essential life needs of persons who have suffered a grave material damage in an ongoing emergency. That particularly involves foodstuff for individual consumption, critical sanitary aids and the like. In justified cases, they are transferred to municipal government authorities responsible for their distribution to citizens.
The state material reserves are stored both in own ASMR depot bases and on premises of business entities in the Czech Republic on contractual basis.