CORRECTION OF NEWS ITEM HEADLINED "PARLIAMENTARY LEGISLATION COMMITTEE ENDORSES CHANGES TO MEDIA LAW

ZAGREB, April 27 (Hina) - Please note that the last paragraph in the news item headlined "Parliamentary Legislation Committee Endorses Changes to Media Law" should read as follows:#L# "Kovacevic said that his party was going to propose an amendment under which a court CANNOT order reporters to reveal the identity of their source of information. He said that he would table an amendment under which reporters should not reveal the source of their information even under a court order, as proposed by the government." The following is a corrected version: "Although there were many objections to the government-sponsored final text of amendments to the Media Law, the Croatian parliament's legislation committee endorsed the proposed changes and their adoption under urgent procedure. "There was enough time to improve the text of the law after it was annulled by the Constitutional Court for procedural reasons, but this proposal aggravates the position of everybody in the media," said Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Pero Kovacevic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) said that while the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was in opposition it had severely criticised the law, but now when being in power it was proposing more o less the same law. Kovacevic said that his party was going to propose an amendment under which a court cannot order reporters to reveal the identity of their source of information. He said that he would table an amendment under which reporters should not reveal the source of their information even under a court order, as proposed by the government. (Hina) ms