Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 8.8.2005

Vsetín obtained 170 millions for building of processing and recycling waste centre

Vsetín council house obtained 170 millions crowns for a building of processing and recycling waste centre. A plant for the entire region Vsetín will be set in an industrial zone in the town part Bobrky. With help of the most modern technologies wastes will be not only collected there but also further sorted and secondarily processed. Eva Stejskalová, a spokeswoman of the town said it to the ČTK.

Food processors’ interest in obtaining prestigious national quality mark KLASA has tripled

The State agricultural intervention fund recorded a steep increase of applications for a conferment of the national quality mark KLASA in last days. At present about 150 applications from 30 producers are transacted. Not all products will finally succeed in fulfilling the demanding criteria. “At present approximately 30 producers ask for KLASA. The increased interest is connected first of all with running campaign for a support of the mark KLASA and with on-coming exhibition Země živitelka. Most producers take Země živitelka as a very prestigious business, so no wander that they are interested in KLASA just now”, said Erika Havlasová, a manager entrusted with a control of the Marketing department of the State agricultural intervention fund.

EU will forbid poultry and poultry meat import from Russia due to bird flu

The European Union will forbid import of poultry and other birds and poultry products from Russia and Kazakhstan. The EU tries to prevent a transmission of bird flu from these countries. It was reported by the European Commission at the weekend. The ban is only preventive because in fact the EU does not import poultry from both countries. “The Commission asked member states to approve the ban till next Friday”, said a spokesman of the Commission. “If it will be approved, the ban would be valid from the day”, he added. So, the list of countries from which an import of birds is already forbidden due to bird flu will be enlarged by Russia and Kazakhstan. It is dealt with Thailand, Hong Kong and China. “It is just a formality. A real danger does not threaten”, summarized the Commission’s spokesman.

NYT: Still less and less fish is in oceans, scientists warn

Scientists who studied lists of Japan fish flotilla from period of several last decades came to a conclusion that a diversity of kinds of sea fish decreased substantially and pelagic ecosystems are less resistant to changes of environment as the global warming is. The scientists, who published results of their work in the magazine Science, also confirmed a presumption that fishing reduced substantially a number of fish living in coastal areas. However, the present study focuses for the first time on diversity in seas of the entire planet. According records of Japanese fares in last fifty year, fishing focused above all on fifteen kinds of tuna and other kinds of fish, as swordfish and sail-fish are.