In May 2010, the cabinet of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor adopted a guideline obliging public companies to reduce the number of their employees by about five percent.
This instruction has been generally carried out. In the meantime we have launched a series of big public sector investment projects with public companies conducting them, and these investments are expected to create new jobs, Economy Minister Djuro Popijac said at the government's session today.
Therefore, the government today amended its previous guideline to enable companies fully or partially owned by the state to employ new staff if they successfully operate and make investments, he added.
The government also established that there was an economically justified interest for Croatia to give the Mostar-based Aluminij plant the status of privileged buyer of electricity.
This will make it possible for the factory, which makes products needed by the Sibenik-based TLM light metal factory, to buy electricity under the same conditions as privileged electricity buyers in Croatia.
The Croatian HERA regulator has been tasked with determining the price of energy to be sold to Aluminij, according to Popijac.
The government today also reduced by 60 percent fees for the exploitation of energy raw materials.