Summary of newsmakers from the previous day 2.11. 2005

Government for changes of ecological legislative to ease to enterprises

The government approved a collection of tens measures which are about to ease to enterprises to fulfill ecological norms. A press department of government informed about it the ČTK. The Cabinet wants to moderate some regulations which are stricter in the Czech Republic than the EU norms. For example it is dealt with a measure of a maximal water contamination. In the CR it is examined every two hours, in the EU once a day. Some changes should be prepared by Ministries in four month, others in a year and in four years. Also a inter-resort group as well as labour unions agreed the changes of laws. Together with the Agricultural association of the Czech Republic requires so that changes planned up to one year the government manage to prepare till the end of the electoral term, so the next summer.

Pitr wants to solve a giant debt of Setuza by accord and satisfaction agreement

Although it seemed that a planned transfer of more than two hundreds of agricultural claims from the Czech consolidatory agency (ČKA) to the Subsidiary and Guarantee Rural and Forestry Fund (PGRLF) was already buried, the reality is different. A special inter-resort commission, members of which should be representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Finances and the Office of the CR Government, should negotiated about a realization of transaction whose main part should be delivery of a huge claim of oil company Setuza from Ústí nad Labem. The entrepreneur Tomáš Pitr came with a new proposal of agreement.

Fines to chains will stiffen up

If several aberrances of trade chains repeat also next year, sellers will get for them a fine to fifty million crowns. It is 50-times more than till this time. On shelves of a shop Hypernova (Ahold), old cheese with false prolongation of expiration data appeared; Billa in Strakonice sold spoiled meat products.

Speculation will land will be investigated by police

The Land fund led by the Minister Peter Zgarba has already found an offender of milliard speculations with pieces of land. The Minister of Agriculture reported that the Fund prepares a criminal complaint against a former member of its executive committee and the influential chief of the restitution section Roman Skopal. He also had already to leave all his functions.