Director of Czech Environmental Inspectorate dismissed

The Czech Environment Minister announced on Thursday that he had dismissed the director of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, the country’s main watchdog for seeing that environmental legislation is respected. Minister Pavel Drobil said that Eva Tylová would be replaced by her deputy, Milan Bukolský, on Friday. The minister from the right of centre Civic Democrats said the dismissal formed part of organizational changes aimed at putting the emphasis more on prevention than repression. He has criticized the inspectorate in the past saying that it had an ideological agenda. Eva Tylová is a member of the Green Party.