Asked by reporters about Minister Petar Cobankovic's statement which was interpreted by the press as an indirect confession that the government had intervened to stop gas price increase, Kosor said on Tuesday she did not know what Cobankovic, who is the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the economy, had said but that she could say that the government did not influence INA.
INA makes decisions on its own and has the right to decide when it should raise or cut fuel prices taking into account all conditions, the Prime Minister said during her visit to the northern coastal city of Pula.
Prices of petrol and diesel fuels at INA's petrol stations will not change in the next two weeks, according to a price list published on INA's web site on Tuesday.
After prices of petrol went up from 0.27 to 0.33 kuna per litre on January 11, in the next two weeks they will remain unchanged.
Kosor recalled that the government's aim was to depoliticise INA's Supervisory Board as much as possible and therefore it had appointed new Supervisory Board members according to the new criteria so that experts might sit on that board and the company enhance its performance.
Kosor said she believed in the successful completion of the third public tender for the privatisation of the Rijeka-based 3. Maj shipyard.
The public tender is in accordance with efforts to meet all conditions so as to close the negotiating area on Competition Policy within Croatia's European Union accession negotiations, she said.