Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 3. 3. 2010

Czech nature is occupied by non-original animals. Conservators require legislative adjustment

According to conservationists, the state does not solve sufficiently a problem of non-original animal species which get in free nature. It is the case of American mink let out from cage breeding, and recently also painted turtle. According to the Conservationist Union, this carnivorous turtle is able to waste entire populations of amphibians in ponds. Nevertheless, the only way how the turtles could get in the nature is from breeders who stopped loving them.

Food inspection balances 2009

The State Agricultural and Food Industry carried out over 95 thousand checks in 2009 with a targeted aim, so by twenty thousand checks more than in the foregoing year. Behind this high increase of checks it is necessary to look for further streamlining of checking activity: a simplification of administrative connected with checks, elaborating of risk analysis on base of which the checks are realized, adjusting of information system where all data from the checks are saved, etc.

Higher protection of consumer and wine quality thanks to information technologies and vine-grower education

Consumers at home and in the world can rely on the origin and quality of wine from Moravia and wines from Bohemia. A significant share in that is taken also by information technologies that help protect wine falsification and import of wine of poor quality from abroad. Usage of the Vineyard register, which is a technological bearer of a function of consumer protection and the quality of domestic wine production, significantly increased year-on-yearly, at the same time with the increase of quality of Czech and Moravian wine. Numbers of electronic submission grew almost four-times against the last year.

Government asked Parliament for fast negotiation of “boards to ponds”

Near places where people swim in the open air information boards with data about water pollution should appear in the future. The duty to inform swimmers about water quality is imposed to swimming pools/open air pools by an amendment of act on protection of public health, sent by the government into the Parliament on Monday with an application for accelerated negotiation by the time the representatives disperse before elections. The Czech Republic is now under a threat of sanction for violation of European right because of missing posters. The information boards should be also in places where people often bathe in a river or a pond without the locality being an official swimming bath.