Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 14.12. 2007

Chambers have strengthened

Last this year’s negotiation of a directorship and a supervisory board of the Agrarian Chamber CR in Hradec Králové made a significant full stop after just terminating year 2007. For many reasons conclusions of this body’s discussion, which represent about hundred thousand workers of the resort, are very significant. The first important report is a return of the Food Chamber back into the Agrarian Chamber. A speech of the president Miroslav Toman and an explanation why the Food chamber comes back was received very positively. It is necessary to tell it because we are often in bound of used tracks and preoccupations and so on.

Problem: Treatment with bio-waste

A civil association ZERA has elaborated a procedure of evaluation and verification of criteria and parameters for creation of a model – a project of system of waste management in an interest region. A legislative adjustment of waste management gives new possibilities of treatment with biologically decomposable waste (farther only bio-waste). Besides classical compost-plants managed as a facility for treatment with waste and permitted by a relevant regional administration also so called small facilities which will have simplified procedure of licensing and the mentioned requirements for technology. A condition is to process at least 150 tons of bio-waste yearly.

Layers will decide who will obtain 120 ecological billions

The Ministry of Finances will face a task which will attract attention of media, politicians and the public. It has to work out a strategy of solution of old ecological burden arose before privatization till the end of March next year. Transferred into a speech of numbers – it will be decided on how, who and if at all someone will get a commission for more than hundred billion crowns. After Wednesday’s meeting of the government Miroslav Kalousek, the Minister of Finances, informed on it. At the beginning of 90’s when privatization started the state guaranteed to pay removal of ecological damages to new owners of contaminated areas or water resources where state enterprises has managed before and where now various private firms and manufacturing concerns operate.

Three firms want to advise in Budvar transformation

Three firms in total strive for public commissions for providing of advisory service in transformation of the national enterprise Budějovice Budvar to joint stock company. A term of opening envelopes with offers was set on this Thursday. “Details on applicants at present time on behalf of preservation of maximal objectivity will not be published. I can only confirm that a commission will evaluate offers of three interested persons”, the Minister of Agriculture Petr Gandalovič said.