Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 21.5. 2007

People will not forfeit elicited money for “ecological tax”

A bank account of cheaters who tried to elicit money from inhabitants of Zlín for an “ecological tax” has been blocked. Many people received an invoice for payment of “ecological tax” for the year 2007 in height of 1980 CZK from a firm EZERE, s.r.o. A number of sent invoices from a Czech post branch in Prague was 10 thousand. About four hundred of people from Zlín who got the invoice have already come in the police. And still other and other come. The attempt at a fraud was announced also by a woman who founded an invoice addressed to her six-year dead husband. Till this time the police has nod registered a case that also people living outside Zlín would get the invoice.

Ministers of Environment from Visegrad four will meet in Prague

On the 24th – 25th of May at invitation of Czech Ministry of Environment Martin Bursík ministers of the group V4 – Gábor Fodor, the Minister of Environment and waters of Hungary; Jaroslav Žák, the minister of Environment of Slovakia; Jan Szyszko, the Minister of Environment of Poland; and as a guest Ian Pearson, the State Minister for Climatic Changes and Environment from the Great Britain will meet in Prague. A main point of program of ministers’s negotiations in which Ian Pearson will participate will be a discussion on a change of climate which should end in an approval of concrete steps at the V4 level as a whole as well as of particular countries to provide efficient policy of protection of the climatic system of the Earth in a close relation to an EU energetic policy; to the 4th evaluation report of International Panel for Climatic Changes; and to a Stern’s report.

From Šumava to the Tatras. How to react to windstorms in national parks?

On the occasion of European Day of Parks we have the honour to invite you at a premiere of a new film by a director Martin Slunečko “Calamity or cordial greetings from Šumava to the Tatras”. The television document with duration of 26 minutes is ushered by an actor Jaroslav Dušek. The film is devoted to disasters which Šumava and the Tatras faced, and how to react to such natural events in strictly protected areas. After the film premiere there will be a panel discussion with participation of a deputy minister of environment, RNDr. František Pojer, a director of NP and CHKO Šumava, ing. František Krejčí, prof. dr. Josef Fanta, Jaromír Bláha from the Movement Rainbow, and a former director of TANAP, ing. Tomáš Vančura.

According to Confederation commissions in forests should be decided on by Cabinet

According to a Confederation of Forestry and Wood-processing Unions the government is who should decide on a system of allotment of commissions for processing of wood. Ivo Klimša, a president of the Confederation said it to today’s Hospodářské noviny. He criticized a decision of the Ministry of Agriculture which had allowed the state enterprise Lesy CR to advertise competition for forest works in a total value of 1,7 billion crowns. “There is a threat of collapse of timer harvesting, subsequently a lack of wood and billion losses of papermills, furniture producers and of all who are dependent on wood supplies”, Klimša said. “Again selective proceedings are not prepared well. Therefore firms can infirm the results again – and who will then ensure wood for us?”, he said to the daily.