Summary of newspapers of the previous day - 26. 08. 2008

Car companies reputedly decreases emissions only slowly; Germans strive the most

Car companies are far from a fulfillment of emission aims which the European Union wants to set in near future. EU imagines that an average emission level in newly produced cars should not exceed a limit 130 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer in 2012. However, over the all last year car companies decreased the pollution limit only by 1,7 percents, so from 160 g/km to 158 g/km. It results from a new study of Brussels ecological organization Transport and Environment. What is relatively surprising is a data that a fight with CO2 emissions which are from a big part responsible for global climatic changes is, meanwhile, led by German car factories. They have harvested a critique till this time that their cars are a bad example because they have mostly strong motors connected with higher emissions and higher consumption.

Czech rivers are in danger of pollution with new civilization substances

Czech rivers are in danger of pollution with new civilization substances as for example pharmaceuticals, perfumes, components of cosmetical preparation and so on. Most sewage disposal plants (ČOV) can manage biological pollution, however, a part of these new substances they do not catch. They disturb hormonal function of organisms and negatively work on their reproduction. Experts from the Research Fishery and Hydrobiology Institute in Vodňany.

Popularity of regional foods grows in the Czech Republic

Regional foods are a part of national cultural heritage and their popularity increases permanently in the Czech Republic. A Deputy-minister of Agriculture for Environment, Research and Education Jiří Urban told it in frame of his presentation in the 35th international agricultural and food fair Agrokomplex 2008 taking place in these days in Slovak Beladice near Nitra. According to Urban a number of consumers interested in not only a price of product but also in its origin and quality increases. A duty to introduce the product origin on a label is not generally determine, respectively data about a producer are not generally obligatory. In many cases it is possible to find out the origin directly from its marking, from the used trade-mark with a geographical data, from geographical marking or origin marking, or from regional trade-marks placed on the cover of product.

Klaus criticized Bursík´s attitude towards wood engraver

Within an excursion at Země živitelka he supported an effort of south-Bohemian hetman Zahradník to save forests in Šumava. Thousands of people welcomed the president Václav Klaus at the exhibition Země živitelka in České Budějovice in Saturday. The same as in last years he arrived in a carriage drawn by Kladruby whitehorses and in his introductory speech, which should have been on harvest-home, he supported immediately at the beginning the hetman of South-Bohemian region Jan Zahradník (ODS) in opinions of Šumava.