ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament resumed its fourth session on Thursday morning with a joint debate on three bills of amendments to the law on the prevention of conflict of interest in performing public duties. The
bills were moved by the government, the Croatian Party of Rights and the club of deputies of the Croatian Peasant Party/ the Primorje-Gorski Kotar Alliance and the Libra Party.
ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament resumed its fourth
session on Thursday morning with a joint debate on three bills of
amendments to the law on the prevention of conflict of interest in
performing public duties. The bills were moved by the government, the
Croatian Party of Rights and the club of deputies of the Croatian
Peasant Party/ the Primorje-Gorski Kotar Alliance and the Libra
Party.#L#
All amendments foresee the cancellation of the legal limit under which
only state officials with 25 percent or more stocks or an ownership
share in companies must report their ownership.
All officials who own stocks or have an ownership share in state-owned
and mostly state-owned companies must report it to the Commission,
regardless of have many stocks they have.
Also envisaged was the expansion of the circle of state officials who
can have conflict of interest. Under the amendments, the circle would
include county prefects, deputy prefects, mayors and their deputies
and heads of municipalities. The government moves for increasing fines
for officials who fail to hand it their declarations of assets from
the current 1,000 kuna to between 3,000 and 5,000 kuna.
(Hina) it sB