Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 14.9. 2005

Gross agricultural production will fall by 13 mld. to 108 mld. CZK this year

According to estimation of the Agricultural association, the gross agricultural production, expressed in common prices in comparison with last year, will fall by about 13 mld. crowns to 108 milliard CZK. According to a chairman Miroslav Jirovský also this year’s fall of farm prices contributed to it. “But I don’t suppose that for the resort it will be a fall into loss,”he said today to the ČTK at a meeting of Association in Větrný Jeníkov in Jihlava region. “In comparison with the last year prices of agricultural basic industries fell by 12,5 percents”, Jirovský explained.

I made the strongest beer of the world, German brewer claims

A German brewer Harald Schneider made a beverage which he himself marks as the strongest beer in the world. His beer is so strong that it has to be served in “shorts” and consume very careful ly “otherwise drinkers fall like flies,” Bavarian brewer smiles. A content of alcohol in his beer is 25,4 percents. “Everybody who tasted is absolutely excided. It tastes like a strange mix of beer and sherry, “Schneider says about the beer which ferments 12 weeks, so twice longer than the strongest German beer. Till this time the strongest beer was made by American brewery Boston Beer Company and Schneider with his beverage calls it out. “I am sure that Americans have some trumps up their sleeves,” the brewer closed.

Refineries cheapen. When petrol will be cheaper at gas stations?

After some time good news come for Czech motorists. After prices of petrol Natural 95 climbed up to 36 crown for litre at some stations, they live to see a more significant discount at the end of this week. Czech refinery in consequence with a decrease of fuels price in an exchange in Rotterdam reduced a wholesale price of the most sold petrol Natural 95 by 1,60 CZK for litre. However, gas stations will not react to the discount immediately because they have to sell reserves purchased for higher prices. “At the end of the last week we purchased at a high rate but as soon as we start buy for a price by 1,60 CZK lower, we will decrease prices,“ a director of the company Aral Martin Durčák said to Právo.

Enterprises put into operation before October 2000 have to obtain integrated permission inside two years

Operators of industrial and agricultural enterprises, mentioned in an enclosure No. 1 [1] to the Law on integrated prevention [2], which were put into operation before the 30th October 2000, have to obtain so called integrated permission according to the mentioned law [2] till the 30th October 2007. Without the integrated permission it will not be possible to operate an enterprise after this date. Because there are many such enterprises in the Czech Republic and the deadline for obtaining of the integrated permission is coming, the Ministry of Environment appeals to their operators so that they apply for the permission at regional authorities as soon as possible. In other case there is a threat that in 2006 and especially in 2007 the regional authorities will manage the disposal of applications for integrated permissions with difficulty.