The Czech Press Agency reports that a referendum on the Czech republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant will be held in Austria on January 14 and 21, 2002. The referendum is non-binding for the Austrian parliament. Neutral.
Also, the recently proposed additional privatization condition (that the winning investor must keep the acquired assets for at least ten years) in the CEZ privatization was yesterday amended by the government’s privatization committee so that the privatization investor(s) could split the acquired assets within an existing privatization consortium, or they could sell some assets to a third party subject to the government’s approval. Positive, but the change of the condition was largely expected.
(Jiri Soustruznik)