The Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan said that he hopes that the Melk process (a joint Czech-Austrian safety-assessment framework) regarding the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant will be completed by the end of November, the Czech Press Agency reports. Marginally positive.
The Czech Press Agency also reports today that bidders for domestic energy-sector assets (CEZ + distributors) could receive drafts of a purchase contract on Friday. The draft reportedly would allow investors to split purchased energy-sector assets within a privatization consortium, and it would bind the investors to purchase coal from domestic producers for 15 years following privatization. Expected.
(Jiri Soustruznik)