ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - By 2 pm on Tuesday, Croatian parliamentary deputies submitted more than 400 amendments to this year's draft state budget, worth some nine billion kuna, or ten percent of the draft budget.
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - By 2 pm on Tuesday, Croatian parliamentary
deputies submitted more than 400 amendments to this year's draft state
budget, worth some nine billion kuna, or ten percent of the draft
budget.#L#
The amendments were submitted by opposition deputies, while deputies
of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) did not submit any.
The Social Democrats (SDP) submitted amendments worth more than three
billion kuna, including an amendment on a pension increase worth one
billion kuna, and 300 million kuna for the judicial reform.
The most demanding individual amendment, weighing 217 million kuna,
which refers to the payment of compensation to local Italians who left
Yugoslavia in the wake of World War II, was submitted by the Party of
Rights (HSP).
The value of the amendments is three times higher than the value of
last year's amendments.
This year's budgetary revenue is projected at 79.5 billion kuna, which
is 6.4 percent more than last year, while expenditure totals 84.9
billion kuna, an increase of 5.7 percent compared to last year.
The deficit of the consolidated central state is projected at 4.5
percent of GDP and the budgetary deficit at 2.7 percent of GDP.
The parliament is expected to start discussing the amendments on
Wednesday afternoon, after it discusses and adopts several
budget-related bills.
(Hina) rml sb