Summary of newspaper of the previous day – 3. 5. 2011

Commodity prices on Commodity Exchange Brno change only minimally

Commodity prices on the Commodity Exchange Brno have changed only minimally in recent fourteen days. They go down in most commodities. Changes reach only units of percents. It results from information of the Commodity Exchange Brno. “It is possible to state a decrease of business activity in the last monitored period. This decrease influences also decrease of particular kinds of commodities. However, this price adjustment is very small”, an exchange secretary Karel Zezula stated.

Amendment of law on spirit governs above all definitions of grower distillation

Changes in the area og grower distillation are brought by a new food legislative which came in force on the 1st of May 2011. The amendment will make laws on production of spirits in distilleries more clear and will protect their operators. A subject of the amendment of law on spirit was above all an adjustment of definitions of grower distillation and subsequent offences or administrative proceedings. Also, the adjustment sets newly that parcels of a fruit grower have to occur on the Czech Republic territory.

Choceňská mlékárna: Renaming of “Pomazánkové máslo” will be expensive

A possible removal of name “Pomazánkové máslo” (spread butter) from the assortment of milk products will costs Choceňká mlékárna (the dairy works in Choceň) considerable money. A director of the dairy works Petr Marek said it to ČTK. Brussels do minds the term butter which the European Union defines in different way and it sued the Czech Republic. European courts have not decided in this matter. “We would have to create ne designs, to put investments in new names of products which represents no small sums today. Consumers from 80 - 90 percents know what Pomazánkové máslo is. It would mean extra marketing costs for acquaintance of consumers with a new product”, Marek told.

According biologists third of species living in CR is in bad state

Approximately one third of roughly 80 000 plant and animal species living on the Czech Republic territory is in unfavourable state, according to natural scientists. Only about a fifth of monitored species they evaluate as without problems. Hundreds of species have already died out or disappeared. Among them there are 84 kinds of fungi, 27 bryophytes, 118 vascular plants, 627 invertebrates, and 22 vertebrates. An inventory of state of the nature was ordered by the ex-minister of environment Ladislav Miko two years ago. It resulted from it that the species are endangered the most by a change in management in the landscape.