Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 13.10. 2005

Zgarba with Paroubek will find extra money also for farmers

The state wants to add money for agricultural direct subsidies for next year. It was a result of an agreement of representatives of the Agrarian Chamber with the Premiere and the Minister of Agriculture. From the agreement it also follows that key supports to farmers should represent roughly 63 percents of a level in old EU member states. A regulation will be proposed to the government according to which the chapter of the Ministry of Agriculture will be strengthened by two milliard crowns, said Zgarba. “We will meet again in January to negotiate about other 800 million crowns”, he added. According to Paroubek this remaining sum should go from savings in frame of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Since today a register of permits for CO2 emissions

The Czech Republic is the thirteenth country of the European Union which put into a commerce operation a register of permits for emission of greenhouse gasses. According to a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Environment CR (MŽP) Karolína Šůlová, the registry was started at the address: . It enables companies included in a trading system to dispose of permits, which the government allotted them within the National Allocation Plan.

Poland arm against dangerous bird flu, the Czech Republic still hesitates

Poland prepares a massive measure against the bird flu. The government announced that it will release three milliard crowns in a count for prevention. Money will be used for a purchase of medicines and equipment of veterinary and sanitary services. The measures come despite the fact that laboratory tests did not confirm an occurrence of bird flu in Danube delta in Romania. Nor one test proved an occurrence of bird flu”, reported a spokesman of the European Union Philip Tod. Therefore the Union will not plan to ban an import from Romania. According to the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs reasons for caution persist, that´s why it does not recommend to travel in the Danube delta.

People announce bad foods ten times often

Public has been irritated by a series of serious faults which the Food inspection founded out in last weeks in shops of Czech trade chains . People announce bad foods to controllers ten times often than up to now. “After a publication of a shocking revelation people call the inspection ten times often”, Jakub Šebesta, a chief of the State Agricultural and Food Inspection (SZPI), which founded out the spoiled foods, confirmed it to Právo. Many people stopped believe to foods which are sold in chains and run to smaller shops.