Summary of newsmakers from the previous days 15. - 17.7.2005

Nova, Prima: Farmers ask for shift of term of haymaking

Czech farmers decided to ask the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZFI) for an enlarging of haymaking term, for which they get state dotations. To obtain the money they had to cut meadows till today. TV Nova and Prima informed about it. Farmers criticize the unified term for the entire Czech Republic: ‘It is a term when it is proved in the long term that grass stands are already ripe for the first haymaking’, explained setting of the term Hugo Roldán from the Ministry of Agriculture CR to Prima.

Beware of foods in hot period

The State and Food Inspection suggests to consumers to be heedful in buying and treatments of foods in summer period. In high temperatures foods go bad faster. Microorganisms which can cause diseases from foods (so called alimentary infections) multiply quickly in warm and dampness and foods are literally a cultivating medium for them.

State return Foundation Partnership VAT from collection DMS TATRY

The state by means of the Ministry of Environment (MŽP) [1] return the Foundation Partnership resources today, which it obtained as a value added tax during a collection for High Tatra afflicted with a windstorm, which the Foundation arranged. A director for external communication MŽP, Jakub Kašpar, informed about it. According to his data it is dealt with VAT from so called donative SMS or SMD which Czech donators sent in form of text messages in DMS TATRY from November 22 till February 28, 2005.

Reform of EU agricultural finances evidently will not pass till 2014

Agricultural policy of the Britain presidency is criticized sorely from the side of European Parliament and European Commission. A reform of agricultural European dotations, according to the Britain Minister of Agriculture Margaret Beckett, can not be expected sooner then in 2014. Her opinion differs from an idea of the Britain Prime Minister Blair who would start with the reform of farmers dotations immediately. New dotations should appear already in the budget proposal for period 2007-2013 according to him. Blair argues that the present conception of agricultural dotations exceeds seven times their needed amount. These redundant means should be used, according to him, for a support of research and development, support of education and innovations. However, the Britain Prime Minister has not introduced any concrete plans of change yet.