After a three-hour closed door session, committee chairman Ivan Jarnjak told the press the "drain" of confidential documents recorded last year prompted the committee to ask the chiefs of the Counterintelligence Agency (POA), the Intelligence Agency and the Military and Security Agency and other state bodies to prevent and punish such occurrences.
Jarnjak said the person who leaked POA documents was identified and that if criminal responsibility was established the case would be turned over to the State Prosecutor's Office.
According to unofficial sources, the document in question was published by Nacional weekly last year. It mentioned nine guidelines the British government allegedly sent to Croatia so that it could prove it was cooperating fully with the Hague war crimes tribunal.
"If we want cooperation with foreign security services, if we want into NATO and the EU, it is understood that our partners must have maximum confidence in our (security) system and in that sense, how we handle confidential data," said Jarnjak.
He added that the parliamentary committee adopted several conclusions, including one binding the chiefs of the security services to see that their employees abide by the law so as to prevent any violation of the fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Jarnjak said the committee requested the establishment of a council which would decide which data is confidential, which has special public interest, which can be published and which remains confidential.
He added the committee supported the further restructuring and modernisation of security services.
Asked if the scandals which recently rocked the POA were reason enough for giving a negative assessment of the performance of security services, Jarnjak said that on the whole the performance deserved a passing grade.