Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 10.5.2006

PGRLF will enunciate tender for sale of outstanding debt of Setuza

The Subsidiary Guarantee and Forestry Fund will enunciate a selective proceeding for sale of outstanding debt in height of 4,1 milliard crowns for food-industry firm Setuza on the 15th May. “A decisive criterion will be an offered price which has to be at least 650 million crowns”, Petr Bouchal, a director of the Fund said to the ČTK. According to the Minister of Agriculture, Jan Mládek, the government was informed about the selective proceedings today. Contingent interested persons will have time to read up the outstanding debt and send in a tender till 21st June. So, regarding coming elections the competition will get over in a term of office of new government. It could want to proceed in a different way and according to tender conditions it will be able to cancel it without giving reasons, Mládek said earlier. The Cabinet should approve the final sale.

Scientists: Let’s change management in forests

Till this year end a new forest law should be introduced to the government. Except preparations of it text which are in progress in the Ministry of Agriculture, also protectionists strive to influence the statutory text. Already last year in the autumn Movement Rainbow (Hnutí Duha) started its campaign. Now, more than 200 botanists, zoologists, foresters, ecologists, geochemists and other specialists try to invoke a public discussion over a state of Czech forests and a way of their management. Hereat, they emphasize one thing: withing forest protection only a little attention is paid to land.

Retail sellers despair. They are force out by markets.

Every large market collects its cruel tax. It brings living problems for small groceries not only in town centres but also in villages. “Large chains attract customers. People from small villages prefer to go to Znojmo and buy for fortnights in advance”, a mayor of Černín in Znojmo region, Josef Pelán, reported. A holder of a local composite goods shop, Božena Šťávová, still fights tooth and nail. “However, in surroundings shops in Rudlice and Vevčice have ceased”, he says. He does not know how to keep afloat at least village shops. “Older people die out and the young have got used to markets. “Probably, there will be no sense in keeping small shops in a village in the future”, Šťávová complained.

Since Thursday it will be again possible to organize exhibitions and markets of birds and poultry

Since Thursday it will be again possible to organize exhibitions and markets of birds and poultry kept in the CR. The Czech Republic will reduce nation-wide emergency measures since that term which had been adopted due to bird flu in a half of February. Actions with international participations will demand an approval of a regional veterinary administration, as well as tours of birds from our republic abroad. Also competitions of carrier pigeons will be opened in the CR territory. The Ministry of Agriculture also announced yesterday to the ČTK that lighter reductions will be applied also in entrepreneurial poultry breeding. “Reduction was enabled by a more favourable infection situation in member countries of the European Union and end of spring flights of migrating birds from area with unfavourable or unknown infection situation”, said the Minister of Agriculture, Jan Mládek.