Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 19.10.2010

Information published by Agricultural Union are not based on truth

An article of the Agricultural Union (ZS) was published in a weekly Zemědělec this week summarizing pieces of information from a meeting in Větrný Jeníkov. Unfortunately, as we ascertained, ZS representatives do not obviously know basic principles of allotment of national supplementary payments and a calculation of height of tariff rates for particular sectors. Otherwise they could not present an absolutely fundamental disinformation in the text concerning a subsidy height for KBTPM.

“Špekáčky” are Czech tradition, even Brussels will acknowledge it

A fight for špekáčky (special sausages) saving ends successfully for Czech producers and consumers. According to findings of online daily Aktuálně.cz, nothing stays in way to bestow an official protection to campfires delicacy by the European Union. Špekáčky - similarly as Lovecký salám (Hunting salami) and Špišské párky (Špišské frankfurters) - will be able to use a mark “Guaranteed Traditional Speciality” in a form of EU logo soon.

Brussels wants to ban temporarily cloning for food production

The European Commission announced today that will suggest to European Union to ban temporarily animals cloning for food production. It purposes also to interrupt marketing of foods from clones on the Union market. According to Commission conceptions, after five years the measures should be evaluated and possibly prolonged or cancelled. Meanwhile, cloning methods for commercial purposes are not quite spread in Europe owing to their financial demandingness. Brussels wants also to enforce so that it would possible to monitor an import of embryos or sperm from cloned animals. Such an import will be possible, however, a database should arise with registered animals which got into being from the genetic material.

Czech meat loses in shops. Ham is imported by Germans, chickens by Poles

Last year, every third piece of pig meat on shelves of domestic shops came from abroad. This year, it is already every second and Czech farmers quickly lose against the competitors. They lose above all because of a price. From data of the Czech Statistic Office it results that just meat is imported the most of all foods. In comparison with the year 2003 (before the Czech Republic accession in the European Union), last year, chicken import increased against the export three times. A volume of imported pig meat increased eight times and import of beef meat flied up even to 24-multiple.