ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday compiled a list of 185 companies of special state interest whose supervisory boards may include state officials, and the list will eventually contain some 200 companies,
said the state secretary at the Central Office for Development Strategy, Ante Babic.
ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday compiled
a list of 185 companies of special state interest whose supervisory
boards may include state officials, and the list will eventually
contain some 200 companies, said the state secretary at the Central
Office for Development Strategy, Ante Babic.#L#
In compiling the list the government was governed by the following
criteria: state ownership in the companies of more than 51 percent and
the inclusion into the list of companies which are not in the
portfolio of the Croatian Privatisation Fund, such as the oil company
INA and the power industry HEP.
The list is a precondition for the appointment of state officials into
the supervisory and management boards of those companies.
The Law on the Prevention of Conflict of Interest stipulates that
state officials can be elected, in exceptional cases and without
receiving payment, into the supervisory boards of companies which are
exclusively owned by the state, those in which the state holds more
than 51 percent of interest, and those which are of special state
interest.
Since there are companies of strategic interest in which the state
does not hold the majority interest (for example, Croatian Telecom),
Babic said the government would move changes to the law which would
enable it to appoint its ministers and other officials also into the
supervisory boards of such companies.
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