Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 3.5.2006

Agrarian Chamber protests in strong terms – Instead of reimbursement of losses production of poultry should be reduced

A board of directors of the Agrarian Chamber (AK CR) expressed an essential protest against a prepared government order, which concerns compensation of damages caused to producers and processors by bird flu, at their meeting in Ratiboř in Vsetín region. “We express a peremptory disagreement with the material and its diction because it does not solve the economic fall of participants of a vertical producing and processing poultry”, Jan Veleba, the president of AK CR) said. “Instead of compensation of damages this material suggests reducing production of poultry meat. It is a pressure on clearance of space for foreign competition and export of less quality frozen poultry”, Veleba added. According to AK CR representatives at present consumption of poultry meat in the Czech Republic is in normal and by a decrease of domestic production domestic producers and processors would knowingly open a space for foreign producers.

České Budějovice among the best towns of Europe!

An international jury ranged České Budějovice among 12 the best places of Europe in a competition for a title “The best of Europe” for organization of the European week of mobility in 2005 [1]. Among the best places belong also Almada (Portugal), Bologna (Italy), Budapest (Hungary, Edinborough (Great Britain), Copenhagen (Denmark), Koprivnica (Croatia), Leon (Spain), Lublan (Slovenia), Lubin (Poland), Zoetemeer (the Netherlands) and Geneva (Switzerland).

Other 13 producers got assessment KLASA

Other 44 quality food products of domestic production obtained on the 28th April, 2006 prestigious assessment KLASA.As Vilém Frček from the press department of State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZFI) informed, among 13 assessed enterprises there are 9 producers in total who obtained the assessment KLASA for their products for the first time.

Fines for exceeding of milk quota will be much lower that it was estimated

Approximately by 19 million kilograms Czech producers will exceed a milk quota over the quota year 2005-06 which were set for them by the European Union. It results from preliminary data of the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SZFI) about which the spokesman of the Ministry of Agriculture, Tomáš Loskot, informed yesterday. The reported amount corresponds with a sum of about 167 mil. CZK which the Czech Republic has to pay in common funds of the European Union as a sanction for that exceeding. However, this allottment will be budgeted among holders of quota who have exceeded the amount of supplies, which represents approximately 1,60 CZK per kg.

Source: Agris, 4.5.2006