Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 13.6.2006

Brewery group Zubr, Holba, Litovel raised price of beer

Central-Moravian brewery group Zubr, Holba, Litovel which associates breweries from Přerov, Hanušovice and Litovel raised price of beer from June. It increased price in barrel production in range from 30 to 40 hallers per a half a liter. In case of bottle beers breweries raised price only for specials. The increase was about ten hallers per a bottle, a managing director of the group, Antonín Chytil, said to ČTK today. He added to the increase that the rice in price was required by growth of inputs. “Especially energies and fuels raised in price which showed themselves in our costs. We approached to a change of beer price as the last ones. Our level of price adjustment belonged also to the lowest in comparison with competition”, the managing director of Central-Moravian breweries reported.

Requirements of EU member states for financial compensation of bird flue consequences

EU Commission announced at the end of April that it received applications for financial aid from thirteen member states according to a new agreement on subventions which was closed in April this year. The agreement enables farmers dealing with poultry breeding to obtain a financial aid to cover losses caused by a crisis in connection with bird flu. This aid would be financed in ratio 50:50 from common EU funds and means of relevant member states. According to EU information 13 member states (the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Italy) put forward requirements for EU support which can be provided for the first time to farmers which are harmed owing to market losses, rather than these means were determined only for those enterprises which are directly cursed with the disease occurrence. Also the Netherlands and Denmark were estimated to put forward a similar application because recently also bird flu in domestic poultry appeared here.

Bee-keepers: Owing to long winter almost fifth of bee colonies has died

Owing to long winter and diseases about 18 percent from 550 000 colonies of bees in total, which breeders winterized, died. ČTK was told it by a secretary of the Czech Beekeepers Union, Miroslav Peroutka. According to him the worst situation was in Moravian-Silesian region where losses were quarter at average. Then South-Bohemia and Olomouc region follow where approximately a fifth of bee colonies died. The best situation was in Prague where breeders had losses only about ten percent.

Fine of 2 million was imposed for cyanide in Elbe

Chemical enterprise Draslovka in Kolín got a high fine fore January outflow of cyanide in Elbe. Other millions it will pay for preventive measures. Czech inspection of environment imposed a fine to the factory in height of 2 million of crowns. A bigger part – 1,9 million – for the own outflow of hundreds of kilos of poisoned substance in the river. The other part – 100 thousand crowns – Draslovka will pay because it did not announce the accident in time. The inspection assessed the sanction for January accident last week. Because the firm has not appealed till today, the director of inspection, Jan Slanec, considers the decision as legitimate.