Prague - Czech health inspectors, officials from the defence and health ministries and other Czech experts will on Saturday leave for a week-long visit to the Marshall Island to see the local U.S. missile defence radar installation that the USA plans to move to the Czech Republic, the government Office said today.

The experts from a nine-member team led by Czech chief health inspector Michael Vit want to make their own measurements to become convinced whether the radar poses a threat to people's health.

The experts intend to check the conclusions of a study Czech military chief sanitary officer Petr Navratil presented to the media in August.

According to the study, the U.S. radar that is to be stationed in the Brdy military district near the village of Misov, west Bohemia, will not harm people's health if a protection zone is observed.

According to preliminary conclusions, the radar station would meet the limits of electromagnetic radiation, Navratil said in August.

The mayors of some villages in the vicinity of the Brdy military district do not trust the study. According to them, most information they obtained via the Internet speaks about the radar's negative effect on people's health.

The Czech government is conducting negotiations with the United States on the radar base that together with missiles to be stationed in Poland is to protect the allies and Europe against a possible enemy attack.

The final decision on the radar base is to be made next year. The Czech public is opposed to the project according to public opinion polls, and the parliament opposition is also against it.