The intention is to ensure the better functioning of local authorities, he added.
Deputies also discussed amendments to laws on locations of municipal and magistrate's courts.
The HDZ maintained that the amendments would help carry out the necessary rationalisation of the judicial system, while the opposition said the amendments were an attempt to create the impression that the judiciary was being reformed while nothing would be accomplished.
A state secretary at the Justice Ministry, Snjezana Bagic, said Croatia has 266 courts and that it was untenable for every municipality and city to have a court. Apart from the Supreme Court, there is the High Magistrate's Court, the High Commercial Court, the High Administrative Court, and 21 county courts which cover 107 municipal ones, she added.
Croatia has six courts per 100,000 inhabitants or 52 per million inhabitants, which is the highest such figure alongside Turkey and Switzerland, Bagic said, adding that Hungary has 13 and Slovenia 30 courts per million inhabitants. She also said that Croatia has 44 judges per 100,000 inhabitants.