Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 06. 04. 2007

MZe: Offer of Setuza to set right with state will be judged by KPMG

An offer of new owners of the company Setuza in Ústí to set right with the state will be judged by the company KPMG which was chosen as an independent consultant. A spokeswoman of the Ministry of Agriculture Táňa Králová said it to ČTK today. Owners of Setuza toward which the state holds more than four-billion outstanding debt offered a settlement of about 1,1 billion crowns. The company in Ústí is due to its debt in execution from a half of Novemeber. It was suggested by the Subsidiary and Guarantee Rural and Forestry Fund.

Topolánek came in Budvar to check contracts

The Premier Topolánek and his Minister of AgricultureGandalovič set off to unusual inspection in České Budějovice. In the national company Budvar they examine a suspicion concerning contracts of the company with American rival Anheuser-Busch. According to some information these contracts are disadvantageous for Budvar. “We are not going to do any bu bu bu in Budvar”, the Minister of Agriculture Gandalovič sweared in Czech television.However, many pieces of information indicate that it will be dealt with much more than only to frighten the management. Already during the week above all Hospodářské noviny brought information which did not bring calm sleep to chiefs of Budvar.

Report on impact of warming: hundreds of scientists warn politicians

An Intergovernmental Panel of UNO for change of climate published a report on impacts of global warming. Climatic changes do not cause only melting of glaciers, they can lead also to famines in Africa or dying out of animals and plants. The final twenty-page text was a result of six-year work of 2500 experts. “We approved the report”, Rajenda Rachaurí, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel of OSN, announced at a morning press conference in Brussels. Scientists and diplomats from 120 countries negotiated on the document a whole week. Discussions lasted till night. According to climatologist Jan Pretel who represented the Czech Republic here, every line of the text was discussed. The most objections was brought by China, Saud Arabia and Russia. Also the Unites States of America tried to moderate parts on harmful impact of human use of fossil fuels.

Earnest money should be for plastic

As people return empty bottles from beer in shops, maybe, they will go shopping also with empty PET bottles. The Ministry of Environment considers that it would introduced, similarly to some European countries, obligatory earnest money for plastic bottles. “The minister Bursík has ordered elaboration of legeal analysis in this sense”, a spokeswoman of the Ministry of Environment Karolína Šůlová confirmed it. She refused to report other information and the minister did not hold his cellphone. Ecologists like this idea; producers of beverages are against it. They are afraid that it will turn against consumers.

Source: Agris, 07.04.2007