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This summary is provided by the STA:
Retrial ordered for ex-Luka Koper boss in Beltinci case
KOPER - The Koper Higher Court has annulled the ruling in the Beltinci case, ordering a retrial for Robert Časar, who served as port operator Luka Koper chairman in 2005-2009, and for two out of four co-defendants, according to the paper Primorske Novice. The Koper District Court will now have to establish if Časar and two co-defendants, all of whom were given prison sentences in 2018, indeed made a non-written agreement that company Graj Inženiring would charge Luka Koper unreasonably high prices for its services as part of Luka's plans to build a logistics centre in the town of Beltinci. In this manner they allegedly defrauded Luka of EUR 666,000.
Independence remembered at Sovereignty Day celebrations
CERKNO/VRHNIKA - A memorial plaque was unveiled at the site of a secret weapons depot of the Slovenian Territorial Defence force in 1990 and 1991 today as part of celebrations of Sovereignty Day, a public holiday observed on 25 October to remember the day in 1991 when the last Yugoslav People's Army soldiers left Slovenia. "When the last soldiers left the Koper port, Slovenia became truly sovereign and independent," PM Marjan Šarec said as he addressed the event in Cerkno, west. He also attended Friday's main event marking Sovereignty Day in Vrhnika, when he said "this holiday is extremely important and must be observed because a state which has foreign soldiers on its territory is not sovereign".
Due to Austria meat scandal, two small firms recall their products
LJUBLJANA - Two small Slovenian meat-processing facilities pulled out several of its pork products after the national food safety agency said on Friday that meat from a problematic Austrian abattoir could have been imported to Slovenia. Due to suspicion the meat is not suitable for consumption, Spirala and Kmetija Janežič each withdrew half a dozen products, from sausages to minced lard, Slovenia's Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection said today. Austria's food authorities said an abattoir was suspected of processing meat intended for waste disposal. The Austrian news agency APA said the facility is located around Leibnitz, some 40 km north of Slovenia's Maribor.
Pro-Nazi flag tied to Slovenian tennis player makes headlines
LJUBLJANA - Slovenian media reported on a pro-Nazi flag being put alongside the name of Slovenian tennis player Aljaž Bedene during his Friday evening's ATP tournament match in Austria's Vienna. Running the story about Bedene's match under the headline "Vienna Scandal: Domobranci Flag Attached to Aljaž Bedene's Name", the MMC web portal of public broadcaster RTV Slovenija said the organisers of the tournament had done a disgraceful thing. Appearing along with Bedene's name on the display was the flag used by the pro-Nazi Slovenian Domobranci movement during WWII, which the organisers then replaced with Slovenia's flag. The two have the same colours but a different coat of arms. Similar incidents, although not quite as serious, happened before when Slovenian athletes were played Slovakia's national anthem.
Litostroj Power records EUR 10.78m net loss in 2018
LJUBLJANA - Czech-owned hydro turbine producer Litostroj Power finished 2018 with a net loss of EUR 10.78 million at group level after it ended 2017 EUR 742,000 in the black. The Ljubljana-based company, which the state sold to Czech energy giant Energo-Pro in 2014, saw net sales revenue drop by 27.9% to under EUR 46 million, shows its business report. Litostroj attributed the poor results to ineffective production, the wrapping up of old projects, US sanctions against Iran and delays in the construction of the Mokrice hydro power station, which was to start this year. The company had 397 workers at the end of 2018, down 18 year on year.
National zoning plans for eight wind farms in the making
LJUBLJANA - Although quite windy, Slovenia has only two wind turbines. This may change if investors and environmentalists find common ground on the eight winds farms for which the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning is drafting national zoning plans. In March 2018 the government decided that national zoning plans, a key document to find a location for a major new investment, is drafted for two wind farms. Both are now among the eight planned by the ministry, of which three are to be built in western Slovenia and five in the east. The ministry told the STA the procedures were still in their early stages, but added all the planned wind farms would have a power rating of at least 10 megawatts.
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