Chief Auditor Sima Krasic said that her office had registered a decline in the number of irregularities from year to year.
During a debate on the report Social Democratic Party parliamentarians moved for the declassification of the parts of the report referring to the auditing of the business performance of the ministries of defence and the interior. Since a debate on the matter required a quorum, it was suspended when it was found that there was no quorum.
After that, the parliament opened a discussion on the Data Confidentiality Bill.
Under the bill, classified information would no longer be designated as "state secret", "official secret" or "military secret" but as "very secret", "secret", "confidential" or "restricted".
Information of vital interest to the state would be designated as "very secret" and any unauthorised disclosure of such information would cause irreparable damage to national security.
This would in particular concern information relating to the values defined in Croatia's constitution, its independence and territorial integrity, international reputation, diplomatic relations, defence capabilities, security and intelligence system, public safety, economic and financial system, and technologies of security and scientific interest to Croatia.
The designation "secret" applies to information whose unauthorised disclosure would cause serious damage to the above-mentioned values, the designation "confidential" applies to information whose disclosure would cause damage to those values, while the designation "restricted" applies to information whose disclosure might cause damage to the interests of state and local government bodies.
During the debate the Opposition was vociferous in criticism of the bill.
The government-sponsored bill was supported only by MPs from the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).