Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 1.11. 2007

ÚOHS: Information on rise in price can break antimonopoly law

Recently some mass media give still more often information on a necessity to increase price of some foods. It is dealt with above all bakery, meat and milk commodities, whereas the rise in price is advised by both the individual producers - usually the most prominent - and the representatives of association of basic industry producers and processors. The former group is represented by the biggest bakeries and producers of milk and meat products in the Czech Republic, the latter by representatives of the Agrarian and Food Chamber, baking and flour-milling unions. As reasons of rise in price especially rise of prices of inputs, a high all-European or worldwide demand for a commodity, a lack of reserves and so on are reported. A character of published information is from a viewpoint of economic competition at least suspicious.

Roughly quarter of businesses still do not have integrated permission

On Tuesday the 30th of October terminated a deadline determined by law on integrated prevention to which operators of roughly 1850 industrial and agricultural enterprises ought to obtain an integrated permission necessary for their further activity. A director of external communication of the Ministry of Environment of the CR (MŽP) Jakub Kašpar informed on it today. According to him about 75 % those to who this duty concerns (i.e. 1150 permissions were issued) dispose of valid integrated permissions.

Law on pharmaceuticals was passed in second reading

An amendment of act on pharmaceuticals was passed in the second reading yesterday. Only two votes decided on passing a medially discussed paragraph of the pharmaceutical law which enables sale of drugs by distributors to breeders of farm animals on base of prescription of a veterinarian. Breeders of slaughter animals and animals determined for food production will be obviously able to buy veterinary pharmaceutical directly from distributors. They would not have to buy them as till this time from veterinarians. However, a breeder would have to have a drawn prescription for the drug. A draft of the new law on pharmaceuticals which has been passed by the Parliament counts on a change. The Senate will not judge the draft.

To bring back European crayfish in streamEuropean crayfish come back in streams in Orlické mountains waters in Orlické mountains, it is an aim which workers of Lesy of the Czech Republic (LČR) and conservationists from the Administration of Protected Landscape Area Orlické mountains delimited together five years ago. On Tuesday several tens of crayfish were naturalized in Janovský stream in Ohnišov and in Uhřínovský stream in Uhřínov. “Already in the spring one of our top specialists for reintroduction of European crayfish made a hydrobiological evaluation of possible localities and according to results of this investigation a concrete place was recommended where crayfish is now naturalized”, František Sajdl, a manager of administration of water-flows of LČR said to Právo.