While the Opposition claimed that the report was incomplete and unclear and that its presentation was late, deputies of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) said the report was timely as the start of the implementation of projects was "long and complex".
"There is now a more difficult and stricter procedure for the use of the EU pre-accession funds," Zigman told the Sabor.
He said that the national fund had asked the European Commission a total of 53.3 million euros for all the programmes in the period from April to December 2006 and that it was made possible for Croatia to decentralise CARDS projects.
He said that each ministry has its internal auditing for supervising the implementation of pre-accession programmes and that each document passed threefold checks before it was sent to the EC for assent.
Zigman said that last year no irregularities had been observed in the implementation of the said programmes.
Thursday's sitting ended with a debate on the presented report.