Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 29. 6. 2011

Anonymous food will end. People will know their exact origin

Food sellers will have to play a fair play with customers. The era of food anonymity will end soon after years. Representatives of the EU countries have agreed on an unified marking of foods. For example, in meat we will get to know the place of birth of the concrete animal or information on the slaughter soon. Moreover, details about amount of salt, acids, fats and sugars will be added. The current marking is purposeless sometimes. For example a label „Czech meat“ does not have to mean at all that the meat comes from the Czech Republic. Also goods only packaged by the producers in the Czech Republic can bear such an indication.

Czech Republic continue in effort to prevent from discriminating capping of payments according to business size

Ministers of agriculture of the European Union have met for the last time during the Hungarian presidency in Luxembourg on Tuesday to negotiate about problems of sea fishing, a development regarding infection of bacteria E. coli, or about the future of food aid programme for the poorest. Czech Minister of Agriculture Ivan Fuksa used the negotiation for an informal discussion about the future of EU Common Agricultural Policy and organized a meeting with ministers from Germany, Great Britain, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and representatives of Hungary as observers.

Limitation of land sale to foreigners ends; the law has been signed by president

A statutory limitation of purchase of agricultural land for foreigners will be cancelled. Also a government amendment of foreign exchange act signed by the president Václav Klaus today counts on it. ČTK was informed about the Klaus´s signature by a president´s spokesman Radim Ochvat. The ban of land sale to foreigners was negotiated by the Czech Republic in accession in the EU seven years ago; this exception stopped to hold at the beginning of May. Before the accession into the EU, the Czech Republic negotiated five-year transitive period for sale of real estates determined for living and seven-year period for sale of agricultural land.

Head of Food and Agriculture Organization of UNO will be Brazilian

Brazilian José Graziano da Silva has won with a close number of votes in election by secret ballot; he will lead the Food and Agriculture Organization of UNO in coming years. His only serious rival candidate was the former long-standing Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Miguel Ángel Morationos Cuyaubé. The election of a new general director took place at the 37th meeting of FAO Conference on days 25.6.-2.7.2011 in Roma participated by ministers of agriculture from more than 190 member states of the organization.