Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 19.12. 2006

Ministers of Environment approved regulation REACH in Brussels

On Monday the 18th December a regular session of the Counsel of the EU for environment took place in Brussels. A Czech delegation was lead by the Minister of Environment Petr Kalaš. Ministers of environment met also Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah (a chairman of bureau of the 15th session of the Commission of UN for sustainable development and the vice-chairman of government and a minister of industry and energetics of Quatar) and they debate about topics on which the UN Commission will negotiate in May 2007.

Information on results of contractual proceeding

A review of results of an open contractual proceeding by the Law No. 137/2006 Col., on public commission on 208 contracting territorial units to a public commission “Realization of growing and harvest activities and supplies of wood assortments” for 2007. A submitter calls attention to the fact that it is dealt only with a partial data because remaining 70 contracting territorial units is a subject of evaluation of evaluating commission. As soon as definitive results are known, they will be published on these sites.

Grass stands unused as fodder crop: actual problems in the Czech Republic

Most people knows that forests in the Czech Republic takes roughly a third of its area and since 90’s their extent grows slowly. None of us realizes that similar situation is in permanent grass stands. Permanent grass stands – meadows and pastures – represent in the Czech Republic as well as in Central-European conditions a significant stabilization and conservatives element in a landscape and also in a whole system of land management. Meadows are just what created the known character of Czech landscape in several last centuries. Beginning and development of grass stands is subject to their regular management without which an absolute majority of grass stands would change by gradual succession in forest communities.

80 cows from cooperative Sever Loukovec will be killed due to BSE

In the agricultural cooperative Sever Loukovec from Chocn˙jovice in Mladá Boleslav region almost 80 peers of a cow, whose final test proved the 26th case of so called disease of mad cows (BSE) in the Czech Republic, will have to be killed. The State Veterinary Administration informed on it already a week ago. Now it was confirmed also by representatives of a regional veterinary administration and the cooperative.