Kirin presented plans for the new law at a round table discussion on voters' registers, organised on Monday in the parliament building by the Central State Administration Office, the OSCE and the nongovernmental organisation GONG.
The State Secretary of the Central State Administration Office, Antun Palaric, said that there was no reason for haste in the process of adopting the new law on residence.
Commenting on a draft act on voters' registers, Palaric said the existent law was 15 years old and that a new one would not bring about "spectacular changes".
The basic principle in the act remains that citizens aged 18 and above will have voting rights.
As regards their residence, it is up to citizens to decide where they want to live, and it is up to state administration to update data on their residence, Palaric said.
The new draft act envisages that the voters' registers must be processed and made in electronic form.
Present at the event were Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and the head of the OSCE mission to Croatia, Jorge Fuentes.