Summary of newsmakers from the previous day - 24.-26.2.2006

Regions want more money for non-agricultural activities in the countryside

Regions want so that more money, than it is suggested by the Ministry of Agriculture, flow to non-agricultural activities in the countryside from the European Fund for rural development (EAFRD) in 2007 - 2013. The chairman of the Commission for regional development of the Associations of CR regions Roman Línek said it to journalists after today's negotiation. “According to last references of the Ministry of Agriculture representatives only ten percent from approximately 10,5 milliard crowns should go yearly from EAFRD to non-agricultural activities, and remaining 90 percent to agricultural production. According to our opinion, non-agricultural activities should have 20 percent”, said Línek.

Pulp-mills and paper-mill begin to be lack of wood

Supply of wood to customers, above all to paper-mills and pulp-mils, stagnates. “Enterprises have reserves only for several days. Contingent production interruption can be compared with difficulties what will appear when a blast-furnace is put out of operation”, the director of Czech association of workers in forest management Jiří Kořínek explains. A similar situation as a year ago repeats. The lack of wood was afflicted by the chaos in selection procedures in the state enterprise Forests CR, its strategy “trade the wood themselves”, which they are not able to fulfill, but also the unfavourable weather. ”I want to believe that the crisis in forestry will end soon finally”, hopes Jan Mičánek, the chairmen of directorship of the firm LESS a.s., one of three the biggest forestry firms in the Czech Republic.

In Germany there is no idea of letters due to waste

After the Premier Jiří Paroubek criticized a lax approach of the Ministry of Environment (MŽP) to the expansion of illegal export of German waste in the Czech Republic, the KDU-ČSL chief of resort Libor Ambrozek said after the Wednesday government meeting, that he had asked the Premier for help. He gave reasons for it that the addressed offices in Saxony and Saxony-Anthalt have not reacted to the appeal of the Czech Ministry of Environment to any reparation yet. However, as the mentioned German institutions in Saxon, Saxon-Anhalt and Brandenburg announced on Thursday afternoon to Právo, they had no idea of the letters from Prague till that time.

Made in Europe means high quality

High quality of meat and meat products exported from Germany. The mark “Made in Europe” means a promise of a high quality of European producers, breeders, engineers and producers of meat products. The producers of meat and meat products belong in Germany beside producers of food machines and packaging equipment among branches results of which are mostly sold. German export has an exquisite reputation in the world trade. The main criterion for creation of a positive impression is a high standard of products, functionality and reliability of production enterprises.

Source: Agris, 26.02.2006