SUMMARY-Tuesday-August 4, 2020 - 5 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Revenues in Slovakia's forestry sector, i.e. forest managers and service providers, reached €968.07 million last year, down by 12.4 percent year-on-year (y-o-y), according to a Report on Forestry in Slovakia for 2019 prepared by the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (the so-called green report). BRATISLAVA - Junior governing party For the People vice-chair Juraj Seliga told TASR on Tuesday that he won't run for the chairmanship of his party, adding that he'll instead support the bid of MP Miroslav Kollar at a congress to be held this coming Saturday. BRATISLAVA - State-run water management construction company Vodohospodarska Vystavba will save up to €500,000 a year when repaying a loan to finance the reconstruction of the Gabcikovo Waterworks, Environment Minister Jan Budaj (OLaNO) told a press conference on Tuesday, adding that it's good news that director Vladimir Kollar plans to meet Finance Minister Eduard Heger's (OLaNO) demand that the company should cut its expenditures by 10 percent. PRESOV - The city of Presov will reimburse the costs associated with rescue works following the gas explosion in a 12-storey apartment block on December 6, 2019 that claimed eight lives, the city administration said at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the city will reimburse the invoice from the company that performed the rescue works only up to the amount recognised in the expert opinion from the Forensic Engineering Institute of Zilina University. BRATISLAVA - Police officers from the National Crime Agency (NAKA) detained five drug suspects on Tuesday in Komarno and its surroundings (Nitra region) as part of the operation codenamed 'Corona', the police have reported on a social network. BRATISLAVA - Open Day in Parliament on the occasion of Constitution Day will not be held on September 1 this year, decided representatives of the parliamentary caucuses of all parliamentary parties, with the reason being the situation in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak, TASR was told by Parliament Office's press department on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - House Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) has stated that he"ll convene a parliamentary session next week to deal with the bills recently vetoed by the president if at least 79 coalition MPs are available to attend it, TASR learnt on Tuesday from Kollar"s spokesperson Michaela Jurovcova. BRATISLAVA - The police have started a criminal prosecution for a particularly serious crime of breach of duty in the administration of somebody else's property and abuse of power by a public official in connection with the National Football Stadium (NFS), the Government Office's press and information department and Vice-premier for Legislation and Strategic Planning Stefan Holy (We Are Family) reported on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Eighteen candidates have applied for the post of director general of the National Agency for Network and Electronic Services (NASES), Vice-premier and Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation Minister Veronika Remisova (For the People) said on Tuesday, adding that the selection procedure starts on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Members of Klub 500 (an association of companies with more than 500 employees) are concerned about the statements by Finance Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) to the address of their chairman Vladimir Sotak, Klub 500 said on Tuesday, adding that the Slovak industrial employers insist on the need to discuss with the Government the maintaining of employment in domestic factories. BRATISLAVA - Jozef Majsky, whose nine-year prison sentence for major fraud concerning non-banking institutions BMG Invest and Horizont Slovakia was confirmed by the Slovak Supreme Court last week and was subsequently sought via an international warrant, has been detained on Tuesday in a Prague hospital, the police have reported on a social network, adding that the next procedure is fully in the hands of the Czech authorities. am