Summary of newspaper of the previous days – 3. – 5. 6. 2011

In future, coordination of Common Agricultural Policy and Cohesion Policy will be crucial for rural development; experts agreed on it at round table

Other from many negotiations at a round table organized by the Ministry of Agriculture to issues of the EU Common Agricultural Policy focused on Tuesday on the future of rural development which belongs among the fundamental departmental priorities. A wide scale of experts participated in the negotiation, from representatives of the state administration, farmers to university representatives. Brainstorming pointed out some actual needs in the situation when a lower volume of European money for CAP financing is expected.

Not only cucumbers. Czech Republic lost vegetable independence

Numbers show clearly that a former vegetable power the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) is completely dependent on import of fruit and vegetable. There is no more any crop plant in which the Czech would be self-sufficient. Cucumbers are imported from 83 percents, onion from 60 percents, carrot from 61 percents. Only in apples (30 percent of import) and potatoes (23 percents) local producers still strive to resist to foreign competition, however, they admit that a day when they succumb is coming.

Spread butter maybe will change design owing to EU

The European Union minds that the term butter is used in the product name. The European Union defines it in other way and the popular Czech food does not fit this definition. Choceňská mlékárna (dairy works), the biggest producers and distributer of “Pomazánkové máslo” (spread butter) in the CR considers a change of design of spread butter packages. In this way it wants to reverse the attitude of the European Union to the spread butter problems. “The whole contention very disturbs us and we would like to make an obliging step”, a director of the dairy works Pavel Marek stated in a press statement.

EU: Russia breaks WTO rules by ban of vegetable import

A Thursday Russia´s decision to establish a prohibition of fresh vegetable import from all the European Union is in contradiction with rules of free trade of the World Trade Organization (WTO). An envoy of the European Union in Moscow Fernando Valenzuela told it today. According to the envoy, Russia should keep the WTO rules, if it wants to join the WTO. However, the Russian premiere Vladimír Putin sent word from Sochi that Moscow waits for EU announcement where the infection resource is.