The session, which will end on December 15, was announced on Friday by Speaker Vladimir Seks, who spoke to the press after a meeting of the parliament presidency. He said parliament would hold the 17th session weekly Tuesday through Friday because of the 47-item agenda.
After Question Time on November 9, deputies will discuss two interpellations on government performance whereby the Social Democrats (SDP) request parliament to take a position on the halted development of Croatian Railways and the situation after local elections.
Seks said parliament would also vote on a report on privatisation and ownership transformation audits.
Asked when deputies were expected to discuss amendments to legislation regulating parliamentary elections, Seks said no official motion had been submitted and that he did not expect one before 2007, when the next parliamentary polls are to be held.
Seks said one should neither expect initiatives which would advocate changing the constitutional provision under which parliament decides with a two-thirds majority vote when Croatian troops are allowed to leave the country. He added the provision was a solid guarantee of parliament's key role in deciding about sending troops outside Croatia.
Asked to comment on Hague war crimes tribunal indictee Ivica Rajic's statement that Croatia had actively participated in the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Seks said he could not and must not comment on matters being discussed in court.
He recalled that the parliamentary declaration on the Croatian Homeland War bound all state bodies and officials to honour it and established that the war had been a legitimate, just and liberation war. He added the declaration did not refer to Bosnia.
During the 17th parliamentary session, deputies will also discuss amendments to the Criminal Code and laws on courts and the State Judicial Council.
Seks said parliament would take an active role in Croatia's European Union entry negotiations, through the national committee monitoring the negotiations and bilateral meetings with EU member states' parliamentary leaders.