Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 6. 6. 2005

Agrarians asked Klaus for a support of Czech products consumption

During this afternoon´s meeting representatives of the Agrarian Chamber asked the president Václav Klaus to assist with a support of domestic food consumption. „We aim at consumers to prefer Czech groceries. President´s response was quite favourable,“ said Jan Veleba, the Agrarian Chamber president, after the meeting adding that the president had promised to help. „We agreed to submit some particular ideas and proposals to the president office,“ mentioned Veleba. In his opinion, it is an issue concerning the whole society and if people chose Czech food products, they will also encourage rural employment and preserve domestic landscape.

Court acknowledged the Budweiser trademark to Budvar

While Budweiser Budvar is fighting for the Budweiser trademark with the American brewery AnheuserBusch abroad, at home it is the Budweiser municipal brewery, a competition from the same town, that has also tried to dispute a claim to the trademark´s ownership. All in vain though. Two years ago the municipal brewery brought a sue to a court and attacked the decision of the Industrial Property Office that no brewery except Budvar could claim the trademark. Nevertheless, the municipal court in Prague affirmed the decision. The current situation when for instance Budvar uses the word „Budweiser“ in the lower part of the labels and the municipal brewery „Budweiser Bier“ has been maintained.

Oil spill in Nymburk district didn´t contaminate groundwater

Saturday´s accident of a petroleum tank near Poděbrady in Nymburk district, where consequently some oil escaped and, according to the information of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, contaminated groundwater at the depth of 2 metres, will not have any influence on water quality in nearby wells, not even on a 2 kilometres far drill hole of the Poděbradka mineral water. Josef Ďurčanský, the mayor of Poděbrady town, reported that a specialized company drained the polluted water and continued in sanitation works. Roughly 1,400 cubic metres of contaminated soil were taken to the sanitary land fill in Šumbor in Nymburk district.

Mushroom-pickers found their first brown birch and penny-bun boletus

In Přerov district´s forests first brown birch and penny-bun bolete and chantelleres are growing now after the spring rain. According to mycologists, mushroom lovers can set off to forests and enjoy the traditional mushroom meals. Compared to the last year, these kinds of mushrooms appeared a bit later. „Mushroom-pickers will not manage to find a whole basket of mushrooms, but they will have enough for soup or scrambled mushrooms with eggs. The current weather, above all the rain showers, have helped the mushrooms to grow,“ said yesterday Jiří Polčák, a mycologist from Přerov. He has already found first orange-cup boletus, five species of russula, classic red-cracked boletus, boletus sestivalis as well as boletus erythropus, brown birch boletus and chantelleres.